The movie that fullfill our curiosity as well as our our energy because it is a sports based movie.Moneyball is an American sports drama movie directed by Bennet Miller in 2011.
The story is really fantastic that is the Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beaneis ( Brad pitt) upset by his team’s loss to the New York Yankeesin the 2001 post season. With the impending departure of star playersJohnny Damon, Jason Giambi, andJason Isringhausentofree agency, Beane needs to assemble acompetitive team for2002, but must overcome Oakland’s limited payroll.During a visit to theCleveland Indians, Beane meetsPeter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess players’ value. Beanetests Brand’s theory by asking whether he would have drafted him ( out of high school) , Beane having been a Major League player before becoming general manager.Though scouts considered Beane a phenomenal prospect, his career in the Major Leagues was disappointing. After some prodding, Brand admits that he would not have drafted him until the ninth round and surmised that Beane would probably have accepteda scholarship to Stanford instead. Impressed, Beane hires the inexperienced Brand to be the Athletics assistant general manager.Oakland team scouts are first dismissive and then hostile towards Brand’s non-traditionalsabermetricapproach to scouting players. Most notably, Grady Fuson aggressively confronts Beane, causing him to be fired. Grady then takes to the radio airwaves and doubts the team’s future. Rather than relying on the scouts’ experience and intuition, Brand selects players based almost exclusively on theiron-base percentage( OBP) . Beane signs the ones Brand suggests, such as unorthodoxsubmarine pitcherChad Bradford, past-his-prime outfielderDavid Justice, and injuredScott Hatteberg. Beane also faces opposition fromArt Howe, the Athletics’ manager, who does not agree with the new philosophy. With tensions already high between thetwo due to a contract dispute, Howe disregards Beane’sand Brand’s strategy and plays a lineup he prefers.Early in the season, the Athletics fare poorly, leading critics to dismiss the new method as a failure. Beane convinces the owner to stay the course. He trades awaythe lone traditional first baseman, Carlos Peña, to forceHowe to use Hatteberg at that position, threatening to make similar deals if Howe won’t cooperate. The A’s win 19 consecutive games, tying for the longest winningstreak in American League history. Beane’s young daughter implores him to go to a game against the Kansas City Royals, where Oakland is already leading 11–0 after the third inning and appears set to win a record-breaking 20th game in a row. Like many baseball players, Beane is superstitious and avoids games in progress, but upon hearing how well the gameis going on the radio, he decides to go. Beane arrives inthe fourth inning, only to watch the team falter and eventually allow the Royals to even the score at 11. Finally, the A’s do win, on awalk-off home runby Hatteberg.After celebrating that, however, the A’s again lose in the postseason, this time to theMinnesota Twins. Beaneis disappointed, believing nothing short of a championship should be considered a success. He is contacted by the owner of theBoston Red Sox, who realizes that the sabermetric model is the future of baseball. Beane declines an opportunity to be GM of theRed Sox, despite the $12.5 million salary, which would have made him the highest-paidgeneral managerin sports history. He returns to Oakland, while an epilogue reveals that two years later, the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series, using the model pioneered by the Athletics.
The film was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Actorfor Pitt, Best Supporting Actor for Hill, and Best Picture.