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Re: Moneyball
This looks incredibly good. Or maybe i'm just a baseball fan...
It stars Brad Pitt, and is loosely based on Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane.
Taken from Yahoo! Movies article by Matt McDaniel...
After six seasons as a major league ballplayer, Billy Beane decided he'd rather be in the Oakland A's front office than out on the field. In 1998, he became the team's general manager at a time when the A's had one of the smallest payrolls in the game. While the 2002 New York Yankees were doling out over $125 million a season on player salaries, the A's had just over $40 million to spend. But rather than subscribe to the notion that expensive superstar players was the only way to win, he radically changed the way teams recruited and utilized their players.
"Moneyball" the book examined how a radically different way of looking at baseball statistics known as "sabermetrics" influenced Beane to choose players based on how often they got on base -- by both hits and walks -- rather than simply looking at batting averages. But it also told a very human story of how Beane, a first-round draft pick in 1980, never reached his full potential as a player. His anger control issues -- Lewis writes that his outbursts caused his teammates to sit apart from him on the bench -- and unrelenting perfectionism hampered his career
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