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Skill, Luck, and the NHL's Shortened Season

Harvard Business Review

The leagues play an identical number of games during the same time of year and the sports have a like number of players in the game at a time. When a sport has lots of skill and little luck, you don't need a large sample size to determine which team or individual is more skillful. Finally, align incentives to match the activity.

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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

That's the new quantitative consensus reshaping professional sports worldwide. This next-generation "moneyball" ethos now transforming pro sports has enormous implications for how high-performance managers will incent and inspire tomorrow's high achievers. We have a luxury in sports," says Morey. "We