Fencer
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Game theory is also quite different than statistical analysis. Moneyball is about statistical analysis. Everyone can see that a .300 hitter with 50 home runs a year is valuable. However, if you cannot afford those players, statistical analysis will enable you to identify undervalued assets to improve the number of wins you can achieve on a limited budget. Both are analytic tools, but otherwise not related.
Fair enough.
I've been assuming that if we're competing to see what location we can get to in a Markov model, that's game theoretic. (I'm biased that way, given the subject of my thesis.) But it's not obvious that the game theory aspect adds much insight.
What's more, the Markov-model aspect is more clearly applicable to player evaluation in baseball than it is in football, where in turn it's probably more clearly applicable than in, say, basketball or hockey.
But play calling and formations? That's very much minimax stuff -- i.e., pure game theory. And of course player evaluation is heavily affected by your views on Xs and Os.