Web Exclusive – Billy Beane talks to Sports Analytics TV

On the eve of the UK release of the film “Moneyball”, Sports Analytics TV is delighted to present an interview with Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane. This is the man who is regarded as the founding father of modern sports analytics and arguably pioneered the use of the discipline in the sports industry as we know it. His amazing story is told in the film produced by Sony Pictures, which is based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis. Sports Analytics TV sent our US based reporting team to interview Billy Beane at the Oakland Coliseum and he gave us a range of fascinating opinions.