The Oakland
A’s general manager Billy Beane finds himself in a very unfortunate position of
losing the three star players to other teams. Now he has to assemble a new team
on a limited budget, and he employs young Yale graduate Peter Brand to employ
statistical analysis to find the undervalued players.
The story
is based on the real events and tells us about the real Billy Beane, making it
almost semi-documentary. The case study of Moneyball technique is pretty common
in business schools and in general on economic courses, and thanks to the book
by Michael Lewis it became known to wider audiences.
