My favorite movie is MoneyBall. Moneyball is a 2011 American sports drama about perseverance. The film is based on a nonfiction book of the same name. Stan Chervin developed the screenplay after Columbia Pictures bought rights to Lewis's book in 2004. “Moneyball” went through three of Hollywood developers, over a seven-year period it was tackled by no fewer than three different directors (David Frankel, Steven Soderbergh, and Bennett Miller) and their corresponding screenwriters (Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, and Aaron Sorkin). Their challenge? Translating the book’s sophisticated concepts sabermetrics, baseball franchise budgets and payroll limitations, player contract minutiae, and traditional vs. progressive business models into a story …show more content…
He derived at using Sabermetrics, commonly known as data analytics, to narrow down players who were undervalued and could be purchased for less money; this is based off of not only equations and statistics but age, appearance, and personality. Beane recruits an analyst by the name of Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), Brand uses a formula called Pythagorean Expectation, estimates a team’s wins in percentages in terms of its runs scored and runs allowed. Time is a very important math concept used in the movie. Billy Beane has a short time to recruit players for the 2002 season. Time is valuable for the scouts to review players playing abilities and report back to Beane and Brand. Brand needs time to calculate the formulas for each player. Beane has to give the players time to accept the Oakland A’s offers to play. Calculation concept is used in the entire movie. Beane has to calculate how to spend the allotted funds to attract favorable players. Calculating the abilities of each player and calculating the number of wins to be profitable. The Pythagorean Expectation, the formula used to estimate the teams win percentage in terms of its runs scored and runs allowed. At the end of the regular season, the Oakland Athletics tied the New York Yankees for the most wins in major league baseball. They did this despite having a payroll $84 million LESS than the Yankees. The calculations paid