It's suddenly all over a thing that had been done a certain way forever was now being done a totally different way ► 00:02:16Įveryone in baseball started using data and getting all sorts of insights from it and the insights LED not just to better valuations of baseball players it eventually led to a new kind of coaching in the past it used to be that many coaching positions were almost a sinecure that's been Lindbergh co-author of a book called the MVP machine it's about a revolution in how the world's best baseball players get coached it was the coaches who were the managers Pals his drinking buddies ► 00:02:46 I mean baseball players have been doing the same job for a century out in the open in front of millions of people ► 00:02:07 These doctors existed because sick people desperately wanted to believe in them coaching feels the same way to me ► 00:00:24įor decades people just sort of hoped that if a man was hollering at them he must be helping them to win maybe he was sometimes but that's not my point my point is that even if coaches have no effect on performance even if they're doing more harm than good we might still insist on having them because we need someone on our side to believe in ► 00:00:49Ĭoaching is changing in the same way medicine changed a hundred years ago coaches are discovering science and science is discovering them I'm Michael Lewis and this is against the rules a show about various authority figures in American life this season is about the rise of coaches and this episode is about data and pitching ► 00:01:25Ī while back in 2003 I published a book called Moneyball it's about how the Oakland A's baseball team had used data analysis to get an edge on everyone else they were poorly funded team in a small Market they had no money to spend on players but they're new and better statistics enable them to Value baseball players more accurately so they could sell the players that were overvalued and trade for the ones that were undervalued I remember at the time being shocked at the notion that baseball players could be Miss value ► 00:01:56 Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesįor roughly 5,000 years people call themselves doctors and pretended to know all sorts of things that they didn't know and were as likely to kill you is to cure you ► 00:00:14 We see how data coaching is creeping into the workspace with a computerized conversation coach that has pinned the successful sales pitch down to a science. We talk to players whose careers were turned around not by a charismatic coach, but by data, and the techies who coach them. Major League baseball is undergoing a coaching revolution from old-school to new tech. We explore the quantitative, scientific, and data-driven new frontier of coaching.
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