Ask HN: How can I become a "moneyball" like statistician?

1 points by HiroshiSan ↗ HN
What programming language/libraries would be useful for this? Where can I learn the basics.

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prove you can cap at 57% in a sport over 1000 games
you need Database, and analysis tools like MsSQL server with analysis services and you need pivot tables to view the data and do data mining and deep analysis