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Sabermetrics: Math and Sport

October 19, 2009 – 10:15 PM

What do you get when you cross baseball, mathematics, and Hollywood? The answer is Brad Pitt.

Monsieur Pitt is looking to play Oakland A’s general manager, Billy Beane, in the screen adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. (The movie is scheduled to come out in 2011 but has apparently run into some budget snags.)

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When is a circle not a circle?

September 3, 2009 – 10:40 PM

Imagine that you are standing across the table from Ehab Shoukry. As the reigning air-hockey champion of the world, he is likely to destroy you. All you can hope to do is limit the damage—perhaps your best strategy is to defend your goal.

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