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Modern sports are no longer evolving. They are converging. In The Solved Game, Ralf Luiz De Magano delivers a sweeping, cross-sport analysis of how data, technology, and institutional incentives have driven professional competition toward stylistic uniformity. Drawing on examples from basketball, baseball, American football, soccer, and tennis, the book explains how analytics-driven optimization has eliminated inefficiency-and with it, diversity of play. Inside, you'll discover: Why the NBA abandoned the mid-range and embraced heliocentrism How baseball's Three True Outcomes drained the game of movement Why NFL strategy now obeys probability models, not instinct How soccer's positional dominance erased the classic ""Number 10"" Why even individual sports like tennis have converged stylistically How technology and job-security psychology enforce conformity This is not a nostalgic lament. It is a structural diagnosis of modern sport at its efficiency ceiling-and an exploration of what comes next. For analysts, coaches, executives, and fans who want to understand why everything looks the same, this book provides the answer.

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