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[QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 4647489, member: 1414"]
The natural follow up [B]Moneyball[/B]. I've been in the mood lately.  Brad Pitt is an excellent Billey Beane.  I like the story here, including his back history as a player, his family and daughter, and the weird obsession he has with not watching the games.  But the main story is how he and Pete Berg changed the game.  I think this is closer to reality than Draft Day, even if it embellishes here and there.  After all, this happened.  The As did make these trades and fire their head scout.  The old guys sitting around talking about tools and using absurd language to describe players feels 100% spot on to me.  We've learned since that what those guys saw was useful but incomplete, just like statistical analysis is useful but incomplete.  Have to blend the two.  It's been interesting that every team now does that, and so Billy can't get undervalued guys with the As now.  The arbitrage opportunity is gone.

Side Note: In Oceans 11 and other Oceans movies, Brad Pitt is always eating in every scene.  It's almost the same here.  I don't know if that's a Brad thing or a Billy thing, or a thing Brad picked up playing Billy.
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