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Originally Posted by Metropolitan
Yeah, a sport that isn't baseball
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Most other sports have salary caps which makes it hard to make any kind of answer to your question.
But the whole idea of Moneyball has been so twisted by those who do not understand it and never did understand it to begin with.
The idea was to look for undervalued players and market inefficiencies.
That is it, end of story
Now every nearly every single team is trying to do the same thing.
I cannot really think of any examples of small market teams succeeding, because of the salary cap, small markets are not as big of hurdles as in baseball.
But I would say some examples of teams in smaller markets being more successful than might be expected would be Tampa Bay in hockey, Kansas City in the NFL, New England in the NFL (they are not a small market, but before 2001, New England was an afterthought in the NFL) and finally, San Antonio in basketball.
In every case, they drafted well, looked for inefficiencies in the market and were a few years ahead of determining who the overlooked players would be with undervalued skill sets.