Moneyball
Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. Moneyball follows Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, as he tries to assemble a competitive baseball team for the 2002 season despite having the lowest budget in the league. Devastated by a recent playoff loss and the departure of his star players to wealthier teams, Beane realizes that traditional baseball scouting is broken. He partners with Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate who introduces him to sabermetrics—a data-driven method that uses statistical analysis to find undervalued players. Instead of buying expensive stars, Beane and Brand focus on a single, crucial metric: getting on base. They recruit a ragtag group of overlooked, aging, and injured players who can walk and score run