1st I don't read the Daily Fail. I saw a copy of it and noticed some twit attacking Kenny.
My understanding of Moneyball has been got from places like this. Infact most of it was links off here.
Ultimately, my understanding is that its fatally flawed. Because football isn't like baseball. Either onfield, or off-field.
If you have what u think is a fair summary of Moneyball, maybe u'd like to post it, and I'll say what I have a problem with.
Interesting. So you can't say what "Soccernomics" is, or how it applies to LFC, but you think it's the same thing as "Moneyball" because (no, missed that bit) and as "Moneyball" is a baseball thing and "Soccernomics" is supposedly a football thing, even though you can't really explain what it is, you're very much against it.
If it helps, I can tell you what I think, but I doubt you'll get much from it.
The phrase "moneyball" applies to a method of building a baseball team. It's more a loose set of ideas than any fixed theory, but it includes the idea that there are (or were, at least, all evidence seems to suggest that "moneyball" has become self-defeating) stats in baseball which were undervalued, but which were actually useful indicators of good players. It allowed Billy Beane to build a team of players on the cheap, players who were overlooked by other teams because their headline stats - the ones quoted by fans and pundits, weren't that great. When John Henry bought the Red Sox, they started to use a similar philosophy in their approach to player recruitment, but they also spent a great deal of money building the side.
It has no application in football that I know of.
Soccernomics was the title of a fairly popular book about the financial side of football. I haven't read it, but if it espouses a particular method of scouting (which, so far as I know, it doesn't) I don't think it is playing a massive part in how the club is organised.
I'm really not sure where your confusion comes from, there has been a lot of nonsense written here about "moneyball" and how stats might be used in football, so it is understandable, but if you are going to go full tilt against a system, would it not make sense to try and give yourself a bit of understanding of what that system is?
Otherwise you'll just end up looking a bit daft.