Reddit reviews The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
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For anyone who hasn't read the new book by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller, I HIGHLY recommend doing so - it's a very interesting and fun read.
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The Only Rule Is That It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team.
It is about a couple of Baseball stat-head type guys who get control of an independent minor league team in California and run it in a very different way. It is not just about the saber-metric stuff though, you get to see a different side of baseball. Independent league baseball is crazy and interesting, and there are a lot of heart-warming and heart-breaking stories in this book.
The Only Rule Is It Has To Work
From the Effectively Wild podcast, which is a guy from 538 and one from Baseball Prospectus. They ran an independent league team last summer using pretty much exclusively SABR principles.
I just finished reading the book, "The Only Rule Is It Has to Work" (Amazon). It's about two baseball writers who get the chance to help run an independent-league baseball team for a summer. It was an interesting read, but was ultimately a little bit of a let down. Of course, the authors couldn't put half of their stat-based ideas into play. They were not the managers- they were basically advisers. They had to get buy-in from the actual manager and the players to implement ideas. Sometimes they worked, and sometimes they were left frustrated when their suggestions were ignored. If you're a fan of baseball, it's worth a read.