The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won: Tobias Moskowitz, L. Jon Wertheim: 9. 78. Amazon. com: Books"The closest thing to Freakonomics I've seen since the original. A rare combination of terrific storytelling and unconventional thinking. I love this book.."  —Steven D. Levitt, Alvin H. Baum Professor of Economics, University of Chicago, and co- author of Freakonomics and Super. Freakonomics"I love this book. If I told you why, the NBA would fine me again."—Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks“Scorecasting is both scholarly and entertaining, a rare double.

It gets beyond the cliched narratives and tried- but- not- necessarily- true assumptions to reveal significant and fascinating truths about sports.”—Bob Costas"A counterintuitive, innovative, unexpected handbook for sports fans interested in the truths that underpin our favorite games. With their lively minds and prose, Moskowitz and Wertheim will change the way you think about and watch sports.

Not just for stats nerds, Scorecasting enlightens and entertains. I wish I had thought of it!"—Jeremy Schaap, ESPN reporter, Author of Cinderella Man."(Sports + numbers) x great writing = winning formula.  A must read for all couch analysts."—Richard Thaler, Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, best- selling author of Nudge.“Scorecasting will change the way you watch sports, but don’t start reading it during a game; you’re liable to get lost in it and miss the action.

I’m not giving anything away because you’ll want to read exactly how they arrived at their conclusions."—Allen Barra, NJ Star Ledger“Like Moneyball and Soccernomics before it, Scorecasting crunches the numbers to challenge notions that have been codified into conventional sports wisdom.”—Wired Magazine“Freakonomics meets Moneyball”—The Wall Street Journal. From the Hardcover edition.

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The chap I was travelling with, Shukri Adan of Turkish Airlines, looked at his watch and said, “I will be at the bookstore, D& R, down that way. Si you find me there when you are done?” I took off in the opposite direction to go admire Patek Philippe timepieces because a man is allowed at least one big dream a day. How much is that?” I asked the attendant with a ginger beard and blue eyes. I regarded the timepiece with awe.

My old self would have thought of that in terms of school fees or rent but someone, a much older man who has found success,  told me never to equate the things you want with other things or you will never be able to buy anything that makes you happy. Don’t negate your aspirations.” He said.“What about this one?” I pointed at another. A bored voice came out of the ginger beard: “ 8. Sometimes I suspect that these shop attendants just throw figures at customers they know aren’t going to buy these luxury products, just so that they can see their reactions which is shortsighted because I could be Nigerian and buy three of those watches AND leave him a tip for his beard. If I wore an $8. 15 timepiece on my left wrist, I’d never use it for anything unworthy. In fact, I’d insure the whole hand.

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I found Shukri at the bookstore. Watch Nine To Five HDQ. The air in the bookstore smelled of words and paragraphs. A cash register machine opened with a clang. Airport bookstores are bliss, except JKIA Terminal 1.

A, which is a few rows of books that don’t surprise. Is the size of an airport’s bookstore an indicator of the reading culture of that country?)Shukri held up a book like he was swearing under oath in court and said with glee, “I have been looking for this book for ages.”  I took the book from his hand: “A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari. Best Seller). I turned the book over and read the blurb. It’s about biology and history and how those two have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be human. There were six species of humans on earth 1. What happened to the others?

And will the same fate befall us? The book seeks to answer these questions that Shukri was dying to know. Shukri wants to know what happened to the other five species. I bet it gives him sleepless nights thinking about the fate that befell homo erectus. I make fun of him now but I was impressed by his cerebral choice of literature which compared to mine makes me look like a complete eejit. Watch Psychic Experiment Online Ibtimes more.

I was embarrassed to admit my choice of literature because I would have picked The People I want To Punch In The Throat by Jen Mann or Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh over some book on the history of the China Wall. I read for knowledge like everybody else but mostly I read for entertainment and to learn as a writer. I like silly books that make me laugh out loud in the middle of the night when I lose sleep. I don’t want to read books that have footnotes and references.

I don’t want to stop reading a book to let my brain cool down. Watch Spartan Putlocker#. I want to read with a smile or a smirk on my face or a deep frown when the heroine is sitting on the edge of a ledge contemplating suicide. I don’t want to read some erudite thing about what happened to the other five species. I obviously feel a moderate level of remorse for those five human species, I do. I empathise that they didn’t make it here to this golden age of Instagram and Tinder, but that’s life, isn’t it? Some will miss the train. Homo habilis, I’m sorry you are not here to enjoy pizza on Terrific Tuesdays.

Do you really enjoy heavy books like these?” I asked Shukri. Well, yeah,” he said. I think it’s fascinating to understand the history of mankind and what evolution means to us, because we are still evolving, I believe. I think this book is very thought provoking.”I also think the price of a Patek Phillippe is thought provoking, I wanted to add. I pictured Shukri losing sleep at 3am and reading about the “cognitive revolution, the emergence of fictive language or the human dispersal” and enjoying it immensely in that pre- dawn silence.

Oh well, to each his own. I looked at this list he has on his phone of books he’s looking for: The Complacent Class – By Tyler Cowen. The Sellout – By Paul Beaty. Freakonomics- By Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. The Africans – By David Lamb (Read this one, great book)Sapiens – By Yuval Noah (What is it with Shukri and early man?)Republics – Plato. Capitalism and Freedom – By Milton Friedman.

Are you looking for a book yourself?” He asked. Was I going to admit that I might have been on the look out for You Are Only Old Once, by Dr Seuss? A book that has a blurb that reads: “Is this a children’s book? Well…not immediately. You buy a copy for your child now and you give it to him on his 7. I wasn’t. Not to someone who reads Freakonomics.

We later strolled to our gate to wait for boarding as we talked about the speed of reading books: He’s a fast reader, he can read a book in a couple of days. I take three weeks with a book.

I soak in a book, I go back to read paragraphs and chapters. I sometimes read a great paragraph and I just sit still, savouring that feeling of having consumed something magical. But I’m also easily distracted. If I want to eat a banana in the middle of a riveting story, I will stop and go look for a banana. Words are not perishable, bananas are. Here is my (not so cerebral) reading list of the books I have consumed lately. LUNCH WITH THE FT: 5.

CLASSIC INTERVIEWS- LIONEL BARBERThe Financial Times picked 5. Lunch with the FT’ column.

It’s journalism on a different scale. It’s writing like you have never read; captivating prose, cutting- edge writing and the skill to capture the essence of subjects in a way that is as far away from the financial times DNA without it being too far off. I loved it since it’s in my line of trade because I do business profile interviews weekly and every time I always ask myself, “How can I best tell this person’s story differently?” And what better way than to look for inspiration from the men and women of FT who write so beautifully? ME BEFORE YOU, BY JOJO MOYESThis book kept popping up in various articles I was reading online.

Amazon kept telling me, “You might also like this,” or “The customers who bought this book you have just bought also bought this book!” It seemed like a love story and I’m averse to love stories because people always end up together forever and there is nothing more boring than knowing the end of a story. Anyway I bought it and it wasn’t too bad because there was a  guy on a wheelchair, paralysed neck down and the girl who he fell in love with, she had a lousy fashion sense but made up for it with her brilliant wit. So wit and wheelchair. Witchair. Decent story. Quote: “…if you’re going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.” A MOVEABLE FEAST, BY ERNEST HEMINGWAYRecommended by my friend PG because any “self respecting writer has to have read Hemingway.” This was before Hemingway made it, when he was in France, drinking wine and whisky, cultivating his budding arrogance and artistic aloofness and loving his then new wife while living in the shadow of a persisting struggle and the grit that comes with fighting the ensuing indignity. The book didn’t go anywhere though, it felt like watching a dog race.

Read it only because Hemingway invented the turn of phrase. Quote: “You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.” MY GRANDMOTHER SENDS HER REGARDS AND APOLOGIES, BY FREDRIK BACKMANI read his earlier book A Man Called Ove because Kindle was flogging it for a song.

It was like eating funeral food. I read three chapters and tossed it out the window because life sometimes is too short to read a book you don’t connect with. It has not too shabby reviews on Amazon, though. ROGUE LAWYER- JOHN GRISHAMFor the longest time I thought Grisham was the holy grail. Then I outgrew him.