"The biggest difference is the fitness aspect," Comolli explains. "In baseball fitness doesn't come into it at all." Forde, who describes Beane as his "mentor" in this field, has pointed out that "if you look at an average game there are something like 196 variables and over 2,500 events per game which means you end up looking at something just south of a half a million data points per season. What we have to decide is what is relevant and what is not."