Moneyball (2011) Player Value Scene | Movie Scene HD
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Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) come up with a new way of evaluating baseball p...
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morning Suzanne coffee on yes yes great how are you doing nice to see you good to have you here were you moving in fast yeah yeah I got here early this morning wow all moved in yeah yeah hey Billy I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do I actually do three yeah to evaluate three players yeah how many did you do 47. okay actually 51 I don't know why I lied just why don't you walk me through the board thank you foreign [Music] so using this equation in the upper
left right here I'm projecting that me doing at least 99 games in order to make it to the postseason we need to score at least 814 runs in order to win those games and allow no more than 645 runs what's this this is the code that I've written for our year to year projections this is building in all the intelligence that we have to project players okay it's about getting things down to one number using stats the way we read them we'll find Value in players that nobody else can see people are overlooked for a
variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws age appearance personality Bill James and Mathematics cut straight through that Billy of the 20 000 notable players for us to consider I believe that there is a championship team of 25 people that we could afford because everyone else in baseball undervalues them like an Island of Misfit Toys Billy this is Chad Bradford the relief pitcher he is one of the most undervalued players in baseball his defect is that he throws funny nobody in the big leagues cares about him because he looks funny this guy could be not just
the best pitcher in our bullpen or one of the most effective release pitchers in all day spa gosh it cost three million dollars a year you can get them for 237 000. really is that it yeah [Music]