How Carlos Beltran Sparked Traditional Clubhouse
Chemistry for the Data-Crazed Astros
by Ben Reiter Oct. 19 2017
原文网址：https://tinyurl.com/yaqjv7rn
运动视界影音版：https://www.sportsv.net/articles/45856
The Nerd Cave keeps expanding. In 2014, the Astros' formidable analytics
department, which gave itself its own nickname, employed four members.
Three years later, there are nine. Even so, while all of that computational
power helped to build a 101-win ALCS participant almost from scratch, it still
can't begin to measure, or even understand, what is perhaps the most elusive
component of a championship hopeful.
Nerd Cave，太空人强大的分析部门给自己的绰号，在2014年只有四位员工，目前已经
扩张到九位。即便借由精准的数据建构出这支 101 胜的球队，并成功闯进世界大赛，
他们依然无法测出，甚至了解夺冠中最难以捉摸的部分。
"I don't think you can quantify it," says the Astros' data-devouring general
manager Jeff Luhnow."But that certainly doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You
know it's there. Everybody feels it."
It is chemistry, by which, among other things, a club's culture allows it
to play better than the sum of its parts. It does this while simultaneously
propelling individual players to new heights and a heightened resilience.
That's the theory, anyway. Metrics-minded skeptics often contend that while
it may exist, its impact on a club's bottom line success is likely negligible
. Chemistry, they say, comes only from winning