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Moneyball is a 2011 movie about baseball and statistics. A movie about statistics that received six Academy Award nominations: best picture, best actor, best supporting actor, best adapted screenplay, best sound mixing, and best film editing. Hollywood legend Brad Pitt stars in the film as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, who transforms his team using stats. The movie is based on a 2003 book by Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. The book that changed all sports. The book that taught the sports world about correlation.
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Stewart, R.T. (2024). Correlation. In: Adventures in Statistics. Copernicus Books . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61284-8_7
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