Alright, I stole that title from the epilogue of Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports are Played and Games are Won, but that makes it no less true.
So much of what we know believe about sports can be, and was, debunked through psychology, percentages based on large sample size and economic analysis. And it was eye-opening.
To begin, take into consideration the non-traditional thought processes of authors Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim, the former a Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago, and the latter a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and recent Ferris Professor at Princeton.
In 1984, at the ages of 12, the pair found themselves ensconced in softball at...
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