Bill James made his name as the godfather of sabermetrics, his statistical calculations forming the backbone of the popular "Moneyball" philosophy in baseball. These days, James, 75, is a bit of a ...

and stuck with it despite criticisms from Bill James (who “was actively hostile to it. Like, ‘That’s a s—ty title'”) and others. Another is that he thinks the spread of Moneyball ideas ...

At the core is a formula, Pythagorean expectation, developed by baseball stats guru Bill James (this is why we used the word ...