Bill James
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Oct 7, 2026
JamesHOST
Like it's just the odds are sometimes it happens.
Alan MorrisonHOST
Sorry, James.
Alan MorrisonHOST
Again, the performance of Scottish clubs in Europe gives you an objective benchmark to give you a relative strength indicator of what these Scottish teams are like relative to European opposition.
Alan MorrisonHOST
And things like ELO rating, as we've said before, none of these things are perfect.
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JamesHOST
And then it took like 40 years for people to actually start listening to it.
JamesHOST
It's like, this is the way the world works.
JamesHOST
You know, Bill James first started his newsletter and I think 1978 and money ball didn't start until 2001 at the A's.
JamesHOST
So this is the natural way it works kind of thing as old ideas get replaced with, with new ones.
SaraHOST
So this is a theory that's been floated by a few different people over the years.
SaraHOST
The most well known is likely Bill James, who's a journalist who wrote the 2017 book, The Man from the Train.
EmilyHOST
I think this is the theory that I hate.
SaraHOST
I also hate it.
PatHOST
A Justice Department investigator named Mc- McLaughery theorized in 1913 that Moore was behind a string of ax murders across the Midwest in 1911 and 1912.
PatHOST
Modern writers rarely consider Moore a strong suspect- More recently, Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James argued in the 2017 book, The Man from the Train, that Villisca was one, uh, one of a long series of family killings by a single man, whom they named as Paul, Paul Muller.
PatHOST
Their theory, not a finding.
RebeccaHOST
Mm.
Bob SturmPANELIST
That Corvioto isn't gonna be good for me.
Sean BassHOST
Bill James is 77.
Sean BassHOST
Patrick Waugh, 61.
Bob SturmPANELIST
Why don't we go ahead and wa?
Henry WilkinsonHOST
I just...
Henry WilkinsonHOST
Like, Bill James and his whole statistics thing, like, I know it was a driver for the way that the Athletics, like, approached their scouting and free agency and all that sort of stuff.
Henry WilkinsonHOST
They were, they were, like, the first team that, like, really heavily implemented that.
Henry WilkinsonHOST
And, like, Billy Beane actually gets offered this big contract to go to Boston 'cause he's the first person to really do it.
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Henry WilkinsonHOST
Um, and then the dude kinda, like tries to drop some wisdom on him, like-
Andrew MoslerHOST
Yep
Henry WilkinsonHOST
... and he, he, he f- he signed Bill James.
Henry WilkinsonHOST
That's like one of his, like selling points to Billy.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Barry Switzer is 89 years old today.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Bill James, the, the inventor of sabermetrics in baseball, 77 years old today.
Dave WeekleyHOST
Patrick Roy, Hall of Fame goaltender, four-time Stanley Cup champs, won three Veinas.
Dave WeekleyHOST
He's 61 years old today.
Joe PosnanskiHOST
This team that when John Henry, who was the absolute pinnacle of what you could be as a sports owner during that stretch of time when he was – actively, you know, trying to, to sort of create a new kind of money ball.
Joe PosnanskiHOST
He's hiring brilliant people like Theo and Tito and, and Bill James is like part of it, but they've also got a whole bunch of scouting people.
Joe PosnanskiHOST
That thing was, that was what everybody was looking at.
Joe PosnanskiHOST
Like, that's how you do it.
Bert RemienHOST
1937 birthday for Barry Switzer.
Bert RemienHOST
Today is the seventy-seventh birthday for Bill James.
Bert RemienHOST
Who the heck is that? American baseball writer and statistician, the founder of Sabermetrics, the inspiration behind Moneyball baseball, Bill James, seventy-seven years old today.
Bert RemienHOST
Today is the sixty-first birthday of Mario Lemieux, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center and team owner.
Bert RemienHOST
Also sticking on the hockey theme, Patrick Roy, always fun to say, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame goalie, four-time Stanley Cup winner, three-time Vezina Trophy winner, born in Quebec City, Quebec, 1965.
Jarrett SeidlerGUEST
It's the same thing for FIFA or FC or whatever they call it now.
Jarrett SeidlerGUEST
But it kind of, and mixed in with kind of like the Bill James early baseball perspectives, early fan graphs, understanding of player curves.
Jarrett SeidlerGUEST
I think people view this as a player develops into his mid twenties.
Jarrett SeidlerGUEST
He peaks in his mid twenties to his early thirties, and then he falls off.
David McEllisHOST
Despite those not overwhelming statistics with the Cowboys, but in his MLB career, he played the third most games among guys from Oklahoma State after just Robin Ventura and Jeremy Burnett's.
David McEllisHOST
He wasn't expected to be a star, but in the 2001 new Bill James historical baseball abstract, Mickey Tettleton was ranked as the 37th best catcher of all time.
David McEllisHOST
Friend of the pod Adam Dorowski a year or two ago also posted something that made us think about Mickey Tettleton.
David McEllisHOST
He said, just thinking about how it's kind of wild that we had a catcher who hit more home runs than Don Mattingly, had a higher OPS plus than Dale Murphy, and we just don't talk about it.
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