Moneyball

I love this film. I’ve watched it at least 25 times. Moneyball is a 2011 biographical sports-drama film based on an account of the 2002 Oakland Athletics baseball team — and their general manager Billy Beane’s attempts to assemble a competitive team.

In the film, Beane (Brad Pitt) and assistant GM Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), faced with the franchise’s limited budget, build a team of undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting and analyzing players. The term sabermetricis derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research; basically uber baseball…