Meanwhile, McKinsey, recognizing that it had saddled the wrong horse, retracted the article praising Luhnow’s “analytics, organization, and culture.” Rather than own up to its poor judgment, the McKinsey Quarterly offered this lame and largely fact-free explanation: “‘How the Houston Astros are winning through advanced analytics’ was removed in light of subsequent developments suggesting that factors beyond data analytics were significant contributors to the Astros’ success.” In other words, they cheated.
