Dodgers vs. Astros is a World Series for baseball’s Information Age

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers and Houston Astros are playing in the World Series this week. But this is also the Proprietary Information Super Bowl.
Fifteen years into the post-Moneyball era, an analytics department is as essential to a major-league team as fungo bats and sunflower seeds. In the early 2000s, the disparity between the sophisticated and the unsophisticated was wide. Not anymore, every team now searches for advantages in algorithms and metrics, taking the data available from sour