The author points to Levitt and Smith, as well as Marshll as inspirations for using numbers to investigate problems because:
they made efort to connect their works with real world problems.
Thinking like them offer to sports analysis
That numbers will sometimes disprove conventional wisdom
Explanation:
The studies on sports efficacy under economical and statistical models to obtain a coefficient of price over win is a revolutionary approach to calculate the number of resources a team needs to use to win. This approach has managed to find efficacy in teams as a whole and the contribution of players in the system as an effective system. It has enhanced analysts and researchers the ability to understand when the team can use its resources in its best way. This has left behind conventional wisdom on players and teams to bring statistical approaches and knowledge based on deductions to find efficacy in real-world sports problems.
