There is a particular reason why I thought this film was absolutely terrific.
It is based on a philosophy of statistics called Sabermetrics created by Bill James, that the Oakland A's utilized for the 2002 MLB season after the A's lost 3 key players and were forced to rebuild on a low budget.
(It is this statistical analysis that was responsible for my baseball hero, Eddie Yost, being named the best third baseman in the AL for the decade 1950-1959.) It is exciting to see how the stats are introduced in order to build a winning team.
There are some problems however. The Assistant GM, Peter Brand,(in real life Paul DePodesta) is the guy responsible for furnishing the GM with the stats that are used to rebuild the team. As the film ends, it is the GM that gets all the credit, not the assistant.
Another problem is that we never hear the MGR eat his words since he has been critical of all the changes thruout the film.
Nevertheless, this is definitely a film worth seeing.
It is based on a philosophy of statistics called Sabermetrics created by Bill James, that the Oakland A's utilized for the 2002 MLB season after the A's lost 3 key players and were forced to rebuild on a low budget.
(It is this statistical analysis that was responsible for my baseball hero, Eddie Yost, being named the best third baseman in the AL for the decade 1950-1959.) It is exciting to see how the stats are introduced in order to build a winning team.
There are some problems however. The Assistant GM, Peter Brand,(in real life Paul DePodesta) is the guy responsible for furnishing the GM with the stats that are used to rebuild the team. As the film ends, it is the GM that gets all the credit, not the assistant.
Another problem is that we never hear the MGR eat his words since he has been critical of all the changes thruout the film.
Nevertheless, this is definitely a film worth seeing.
