Moneyball is an amazing sports drama film, directed by Bennett Miller. It is based on a true story, it is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the baseball system.

The film is based on Michael Lewis’s 2003 nonfiction book. Story is about the Oakland Athletics’s baseball team and their general manager Billy Beane. The main aim of sports scout is to create a competitive baseball team, despite the absence of large financial opportunities. Is it possible to achieve such goal along with teams ten times financially stronger? And is money actually the main force in the process of team worthy creation? Answers to these questions one can found by watching fascinating and enlightening film “Moneyball.”

After “Oakland Athletics” baseball team lost the game with “New York Yankees” in a playoff season 2001, the team lost three star players who were drawn by richer baseball clubs. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, general manager Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. There is still no money, and official representatives advise him to rejoice with he already has and work in conditions that exists. But manager does not take the game lying down.

During working visit to the Cleveland, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess players’ value. Beane hires the inexperienced Brand to be the Athletics assistant general manager. That is how their story has begun. Oakland team scouts are first dismissive and then hostile towards Brand’s non-traditional sabermetric approach to scouting players. Rather than relying on the scouts’ experience and intuition, Brand selects players based almost exclusively on their on-base percentage. No one believes Brand’s scheme, under which Beane employs three inexpensive and less strong players instead of one strong.

So, he places injured catcher to the first base, who had never played on this position, former major league star, whose career went into decline 10 years ago, and a young pitcher from the lowest league with extraordinary (and sometimes funny) way of throwing. During two hours of the story, the general manager is faced various difficulties and distrust of surrounding people. Will courageous and thoughtful scout succeed; will calculations work and whether victory will be gained by the “Oakland Athletics” team?  Watch in the sports drama “Moneyball.”

Quotes, “Moneyball” movie:

• I hate losing more than I even wanna win.
• You make decisions based on what you see, but nothing comes out and you go on – this is baseball.
• If you find the point lever and continue to press on it, you will turn around if not earth, than rules for sure!
• When your enemy’s making mistakes, don’t interrupt him.
• The first guy through the wall always gets bloody.
• If we win, on our budget, with this team… we’ll have changed the game. And that’s what I want. I want it to mean something.