How legit was the movie Moneyball

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Not saying Beane's method is full of shite, but it seems like there is way more to that story.

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I, for one, am shocked Hollywood has embelished the truth here.

They should do a movie about the Rays. Consistently one of the best teams in the AL, on a shoestring budget

Tejada won the MVP that year, no?

Yes Hatteburg, Giambi, Bradford, and Justice were great finds, but Tejada winning MVP, Chavez who was a borderline All Star, Dye who was good, and the best rotation in baseball, they were still stacked.

Go read the Michael Lewis book instead of watching the movie

It is one of the best sports books if not the best you will ever read

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I don’t think the movie even mentions most of the great players the team had. That pitching staff was great that season. Billy Koch was a great closer as well.

It’s a good movie if you don’t remember anything about the early 2000s A’s.

Moneyball is a good movie. It gets a bit overrated but still I found it pretty entertaining.

Billy Beane IRL is a fricking terrible GM. That organization is a joke most of the time

The Rays are unlucky in that the guy who wrote a book about their system ended go beating his wife multiple times, threatened to kill her, and is now in prison for a 2 year sentence.

No one will want to adapt his book.

On the other hand, the A’s got arguably the biggest nonfiction writer in the country.

My opinion is that it was too over the top in Beane acting like a coach/manager. The scenes with his scouting dept? Talking down to all those old guys who he’d worked with in a meeting? Nah. You sit all those guys down and explain the plan beforehand. They’d probably all read the book talked about in Moneyball. But to sit in that room and shite on each one of those guys? No way.

The clubhouse scene where he throws a bat and destroys a radio? No coach or manager walks in? “WTF are you doing?”

Clashing with Art Howe all the time? Nope. Again you sit that guy down. Tell him your plans. Instead of a fight with every move you plan to make. And telling him how play his players? IRL fists would have flown.

It’s a movie but billy beane ushered in a new era of analytics that’s been copied and reworked since… he didn’t invent the method but was a great fit for small
Market low payroll clubs.

Billy in coordination with his scouting department was sable to build a strong farm system that filled the club with cheap talent

In the book Jonah hill is a couple different real people wrapped up into one for the movie…many ending around the league as known GMs

Beane was the smartest guy in the room. Just ask him. But don’t mind those postseason failures because they were unlucky, according to Beane.

There is an element of luck in the postseason but to attribute all of your failures to that is typical of people who think they’re the smartest people around. Failures are never their fault.