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Film · 2011
Moneyball
Facing a constrained payroll, Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane joins forces with an Ivy League economics graduate to challenge conventional baseball scouting through advanced statistical analysis. Together, they assemble a competitive roster of undervalued players that fundamentally disrupts the sport.
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In the 2002 season, the nation's lowest-salaried Major League Baseball team put together a 20-game winning streak, setting a new American League record. The team began that same season with 11 losses in row. What happened between is the stuff of “Moneyball,” a smart, intense and moving film that isn't so much about sports as about the war between intuition and statistics.
Roger Ebert on RogerEbert.com i don't know how they did it but this fucking movie made me cry and it was all about some BASEBALL STATISTICS!!! WHO THE FUCK CRIES OVER BASEBALL STATISTICS
anthony on Letterboxd Beane employs nerdy-brainiac Yale economist Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) to apply a statistical, almost actuarial technique of recruiting undervalued players cheaply, on the basis of their hitherto unnoticed records, which would, combined, create an enhanced probability of success. It turns out to be a glorious triumph: a kind of blackjack-card-counting for baseball. But is it turning the sport he loves into a soulless game of number-crunching? It's an engaging, almost exotic film.
Peter Bradshaw on The Guardian
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