"Moneyball for HR!" — why the odds beat the gut
Baseball scouts had a century of conviction. The teams that switched to evidence beat them with a fraction of the payroll. Hiring is at the same moment. Every piece of evidence shifts the odds of a one-year Win-Win hire — and some evidence is worth several times more than the rest. Most hiring processes collect the evidence worth the least, then decide on gut feel.
Join the Moneyball for HR! Discussion Group — live sessions with Lou Adler: how the odds are built, what Type 2 mistakes cost, what the recruiter's role becomes. Bring your own numbers. See what's next and save your seat →
The Moneyball agenda
- Why 35 years of hiring tech never moved the results
- The proof is already in your own data
- The most expensive hire is the one you never made
- Thinking in odds — the Moneyball move
- The Recruiter of the Future — high touch × high tech
Why it works — the science, the math, and the law, in one place
The top-25% claim is science. Todd Rose's The End of Average: talent is jagged, performance is contextual — "top performer" describes a match, not a person. The formula Ability ∶ Fit × Motivationⁿ = Results turns that science into a hiring process. (Performance-based Hiring appears in Rose's book itself.)
- Schmidt & Hunter · Sackett — structured, accomplishment-based interviews top the validity table. Credential screens rank near the bottom.
- Todd Rose · The End of Average — match people to work. Don't rank them against averages.
- Gallup Q12 — the post-hire report card. Every hire becomes a checkable prediction.
- Littler Mendelson · Uniform Guidelines — documented, job-related, consistent = reduced exposure. Read the full analysis.
Take it with you — free skills, free audits
Join the Moneyball for HR! Discussion Group
Free. Live sessions with Lou Adler, the free Performance-based Hiring Claude skill and its instruction sheet, and the replay if you can't make it. Registration takes about a minute.
Join Moneyball for HR! →- You register on the session page and Google sends the calendar invite.
- The invite carries the Zoom link and the free skill with its instruction sheet.
- Want a direct conversation instead? Say so on the registration form and Lou's team will reach out.