Moneyball Movie Review

“Moneyball Movie Review”

In the film you can highlight various attitudes of perseverance in difficult times for the team. The Oakland with less than major league budget, were not intimidated and persecuted equally high goals, seeking to achieve the implementation of innovative strategies never before seen in baseball. All this was thanks to the proactive view of your manager who looked beyond what has always been done with the aim of achieving their achievements, that's how he hired an economist to perform statistical calculations of players, taking into account qualitative aspects, reinforcing their potential, develop their skills, knowing your fears and overcoming them, leaving the players see them as a single commodity. Although for most people (directors, fans, and commentators) was a bad strategy, the manager still holding faith and confidence in the new way to watch baseball. Although the home was not working hard moments where strategies , only perseverance, calm, "believe" were the pillars that led the team to 20 wins, never before seen in the history of the sport , even when the budget continued to be low , just that it was already used efficiently. Thus we can see that in business, it is not correct to describe only the economic capital as the key to success, you must have a vision of the future, stop being conformist or follow a paradigm. In the world of business competition you have to be innovative, persevering, make the most of the greatest qualities you have and not give the company to achieve the ideals that have been proposed. Nothing is impossible; just have to look beyond, to surpass the competition, as Jean Rostand said: “Can observe as strange helps us to see as an artist. Alienates us what inspires us ."

The response and the philosophy used by the organization is that you can buy talent and NOT win. But we often use to justify arguments such as "baseball is so," "is a matter of luck," "bad afternoon have any" but not just the best but they have to work well as a team and channel their talent. If you have no budget, the key is to find and sign these "rogue" players who, for various reasons, did not meet the criteria that the scouts were looking for and actually had good data and therefore may be suitable for goal: winning games. Their market prices set by scouts from clubs, which determined who was wanted or unwanted, expensive and cheap were relatively low and it would be feasible to create a new team, on paper, could do well. It is difficult to differentiate in a market with something that can be quickly copied by competitors, such as the use of a technique, a machine or a logistics system. The biggest challenge is to make things work, Brad Pitt accepted the challenge and believed in the difference. In short, create data where none exist, think about how to use them to help your intuition to make decisions, break the rules of the game when no one dares

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