Billy Beane And The Art Of Value Investment On The Sports Field

In this episode we take a look at the interesting case of Billy Beane, the Scout and General manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Beane took the skills learnt from value investment into the selection and recruitment of undervalued players using quantitative performance data. This allowed middling team with a small budget to compete with the big boys in the sport. We consider the similarities between what Beane did with the Oakland A's and value investment on the stock market and what we can learn from it.Support the show