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The film tells that in the Major League Baseball, Billy's Oakland Athletics team lost to the New York Yankees, and the three main players were poached with a lot of money, the future season of the team is bleak. By chance, he met Peter with a master's degree in economics from Yale University. The two of them had the same idea of ​​team operation, so he hired Peter as his consultant to study together how to build a team with a high winning rate. They used mathematics. The way of modeling began to gradually discover potential stars and recruit them to subordinates through various methods. These people seem to have shortcomings and personality biases on the surface, but they have superpowers in a certain aspect of baseball. In the end, they achieved impressive results amidst criticism and doubts.
Why Billy and his team can be successful? I think the following two points are the most important:
First, be good at digging talents and give them a high degree of trust
. Billy has a unique eye for identifying talents. Take Peter Brand, for example, Billy decisively included him in the team and placed full trust and understanding on him. Their cooperation rekindled hope for the team. They all have a unique vision to select a group of players who don't seem to be good at a low price, but have the potential to have super abilities in a certain aspect of baseball. They cooperate with each other and complement each other to make the team stronger. In the early days of the team’s formation, they did not get good results. For the sake of the team, Billy changed his previous practice of not contacting the players privately, to motivate and encourage the team members, because he is familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of each player, and speaks to the point. To a very good effect, it also reflects his trust in the players.
2. The guidance of scientific theory The
team used statistical theories when selecting players, and at the same time adopted the guidance of scientific theory in the arrangement of players. Although they were opposed by the management and the method of using statistical theory to manage the team was criticized, Billy and Peter made full use of their wisdom and obtained the maximum output with the lowest input under the guidance of scientific theory. It is statistics that help Billy get out of the haze of failure. Through a large number of statistics, a comprehensive evaluation of the players' abilities can be obtained to win a group of powerful players at a lower price. This is an unprecedented team management model, but there is no doubt that this interdisciplinary approach is very practical for baseball.

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