Beane, himself a former player who never succeeded in the Big Leagues, gets it.
Beane used his analysis to sign solid players passed up by richer teams.
But Billy Beane hired them anyway if his analysis showed they could help his team win games.
Second, Billy Beane would be much quicker to bench underperforming players than is typical on Wall Street.
Beane and Lane, greatly aided by Jack O'Brien, the director of "The Nance, " make the most of it.
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According to Richman, future Moneyball general manager Billy Beane honed his analytical skills playing Strat-O-Matic as a youth.
Beane was pointing out that with the current problem at hand, they needed a very different staffing strategy.
In a nutshell, says Brand to Beane, all you need are guys who get on base a lot.
Peter, burrowing into his computer, comes up with a bunch of seemingly unlikely prospects that Beane can actually afford.
Kudos to Beane of course, but his team has been in the playoffs just once in six years now.
Brand digs into his computer to find high-school and college players whom Beane can afford those with hidden sabermetric assets.
Finding value at inexpensive prices in unlikely places became a mantra for Beane.
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Why Mr. Beane's services were deemed necessary is less than obvious, since Oscar Hammerstein II wrote the original book himself.
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Beane represents every individual who is willing to genuinely look for understanding and opportunities in the midst of chaos and distress.
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Whereas old-school coaches were focused on an activity metric batting averages, for example Beane chose to measure and prioritize outcome metrics like on-base percentage.
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Beane employs an approach called sabermetrics, which relies on evidence-based analysis in areas such as evaluating players, measuring game activity, and scouting.
Beane disregarded the gut instincts of scouts and the use of common stats (such as batting average) in favor of arcane figures such as runs created.
Wolff likes his young team and figures it can contend awhile longer before GM Billy Beane is forced to sell off key players.
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In the end, Lewis, Miller, and the screenwriters may have gone too far in their gleeful celebration of Beane and their denigration of scouts.
Gradually, a team was put together that began with Douglas Carter Beane writing a new, longer book with a more satiric and political edge.
Beane meets with his six or seven scouts to discuss who they should hire to replace their stars, when the scouts start their usual banter.
Mr. Beane said he sees opera only a couple times a year, but a good show doctor always knows where to find the holes in a story.
As Michael Lewis and the screenwriters, Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, and the director, Bennett Miller, tell it, Beane is a confident revolutionary who is, however, in torment.
Choreographer Josh Rhodes said the script originally used dance only at the palace ball, but director Mark Brokaw and writer Douglas Carter Beane asked him look for danceable moments.
Beane and his small-market brothers have become victims of their own success: Once the big money teams figured out what they were doing, they started spending more wisely themselves.
For Billy Beane a thorough vetting meant having a track record showing exceptional ability on a metric such as on base percentage that could help his team win games.
In the movie, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), struggles to put together a competitive team as the franchise faces financial challenges.
Beane goes after not just the lesser young prospects but also a bunch of butt-heavy seeming nonentities and washed-up sluggers who nevertheless get on base and generally embody the sabermetric virtues.
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