article_snippet: The idea behind "Moneyball" is to obtain maximum value for each player bought or sold.
article_snippet: You want to make sure you are getting more value than you are paying.
article_snippet: That may come in the form of a very expensive player, it may come in the form of a very young player, but it's not about being cheap or not spending money.
article_snippet: But it's questionable whether "Moneyball" principles can be applied to football, a sport where -- unlike in U.S. sports leagues -- players are rarely traded for one another.
article_snippet: Instead, athletes are sold for prices determined by a marketplace, untethered by salary caps.
article_snippet: I would say unequivocally that markets for players are much more inefficient in soccer than in baseball," said Anderson, who also wrote "The Numbers Game: Everything You Know
article_snippet: The combination of a global market plus inefficiency means that is a huge opportunity in soccer that there isn't in the same way in baseball.
highlights_snippet: Smaller clubs seeking advantage over big -pending giants .