Moneyball(魔球)

    My second topic of movies is “Moneyball”,which is not much popular than others in public,but it’s a so classic example in economics.By the way,this movie is adapted from the book,” Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”.(魔球:逆境中制勝的智慧)

    The protagonist, Billy Beane, is the general manager of the baseball team, ”Oakland”. This team’s size is smaller than others,and its budget is less,too. Thus,to get more excellent player in limited budget, they usually choose the non much traing youngster in the university.However, as long as they have turned the players into the excellent veterans, the other team which have lots of budget would poach them from Oakland ,just like bandits.

    Some day, after Billy Beane’s player was poached another time, he decides to do something different. He seeks for solution, and fortunately finds out what is that --  Peter Brand. They cooperate and choose the players with the statistics, no longer with the scouts’ feeling. Absolutely,this way arise lots of negative waves,but Billy Beane doesn’t care about it and keeps doing what he considers right.In the end,the team he leads wins the qualification into the playoff series.

    The thing I learn is “If we want to break off the situation,we have to do something different from before” and the spirit Billy Beane has. Even though he faces the negative comments from almost all over the world,he can still insist on what he decides to do. It is praiseworthy.