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This page repeats the errors on the Sandy Alderson page (on whose Talk page I have placed comments), namely the timing and cause of the organization's interest in and use of modern analytic techniques. Alderson was interested in analysis techniques from even before he was formally appointed GM. I submitted the team's first annual analysis report to him on 22 September 1982. Alderson and the A's were long since using such techniques by the time Beane became AGM, and it was an extensive (65-page) presentation and explanation of those techniques, commissioned from me by Alderson expressly for Beane's benefit, that was Beane's introduction to what later was dubbed "Moneyball". I will not at this time correct the page, to see if there are any comments here on the matter. Eric Walker (talk) 23:47, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
