I watched the film “money ball” yesterday. This movie’s main actor is Brad Pitt. I wanted to watch this film when I found it in TV CM, because I like both Brad Pitt and baseball.
I would like to explain the summary about money ball.
The main theme is how to reconstruct the player of Athletics, which is baseball team. And it is necessary for Athletics to do it, because three star players resigned Athletics and join Yankees. Further Athletics didn’t have enough money to get talented players in order to fill them.
Therefore the general manager, who is acted by Brad Pitt, tried to find new solution. That is the new baseball style based on statistic . He met a fat man who graduated from Yale University and was good at economics. His logic of baseball convinced GM, so GM tried to do that.
But their idea was not common in traditional baseball idea. So the director and the headhunters complained his way, and didn’t follow GM. Sometimes he tried to solve it by firing headhunters and player who had great ability based on traditional idea and was liked by director. Finally he succeeded to make good mood team and win the league by new way.
After the season, the GM became very famous as a great GM, and was scouted with really high pay by the Redsocks. But he rejected that offer because he could not achieve World Champion, he would try to do it.
I would like you to watch this movie. Because it is a movie for not only baseball but also business like how to manage a team and to solve problem.
Further Brad Pitt is very cool. If you have spare time, why don’t you watch it?
Motoki
I didn`t know about the movie!!So when its DVD comes out, I want to watch it.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of solution, based on statistics, surely exists in sports, I think. I don`t know well about baseball but I know the general manager of Japanese women`s volleyball team is doing this kind of thing. He makes date and using it in practice. Because of this way of practice, Japanese women`s volleyball team has become strong in the world.
So it was really practical idea, I think!
Asami
Do you mean statistics? You wrote statics above.
ReplyDeleteI am interested in Asami's comment. I would like to more about the practice of "making date." Can you explain more? Also, how does the GM use statistics to improve the team? What are the statistics based on?
Thanks for more details.
Ms. MacGregor
For example, he took care the ratio of getting base instead of the ratio of hitting. Based on statistics, the ratio of getting base is more important than the ratio of hitting. Four-ball is enough to get base. And such a player can be bought cheaply compared with the player who has high ratio of hitting.
ReplyDeleteMotoki
After I readed you summary about this movie, I feel I like this movie and I would like to watch it.
ReplyDeletebtw, where did u watch this movie? is this movie avaible at the chuo-6F?
shengjie