The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet
Title Project Title: Moneyball
Type Genre: Under the System
DateDate: 2022 1 21
1. Opening Image (1): Billy's team lost at the last minute and was overtaken by the Red Sox. The evaluation of the team has dropped significantly, and the core players have been scattered. The team is in crisis.
2. Clarify the theme Theme Stated (5): Veteran scouts analyze various players to prepare for the next season. However, the meager budget makes the Athlete team unable to do what they want. Even so, Billy still does not give up. He wants to save the team's power king. In retrospect, he was dug up by scouts as a star player when he was a teenager.
3. Set-up (1-10): When acquiring players, he met a fat economist. The economist is extremely sensitive to data, and he can calculate the probability exactly. Billy was frightened by him, and after knowing his details, he dug him into his team. Economists are young but placed in a humble position, and a master of economics works as a secretary. Billy rescued him and gave him a chance.
4. Trigger event Catalyst (12): Battle of data and experience. Billy and the economists used big data to find cheap and promising players a bit like bottom-hunting stocks, but seasoned scouts were unhappy, and it was the first time anyone would buy players based on data. Some players are drugged, violent, or even too old, and their careers should have come to an end, but Billy still trusts the economist and his data. This broke the hearts of scouts. Looking back, the scouts asked Billy to make a choice, whether to play in the major leagues or go to Stanford...
5. Debate (12-25): At the beginning of the first inning of the new player, the old scouts pressured Billy to resign, and even fought against him during the game, and the game was defeated. The players disagreed, and this time Billy was on fire. He must act. He divided the work with the economist, fired the players he despised one by one, and finally reported to the scout, who thought Billy was crazy. But new flesh cannot grow without removing the rotting flesh from the wound. Billy starts to reinvent the team, everyone thinks he's crazy, and he's going to destroy the A's.
6. Enter the second act Break into Two (25): Success or failure since then. Athletes compete in last place. Everyone disliked them, and a group of marginal players who were old, injured and had a bad life style joined the Athletics. Billy doesn't care what their lives look like outside, he just cares if he can hit the ball, whether he can pitch, whether he can steal bases...
7. Side Story B Story (30): Billy's daughter meets Billy regularly, she's a shy girl singing The Show. Also pointed out Billy's future. There was a lot of quarrel on the Internet, and Billy's daughter was worried about him, because there were so many people scolding Dad on the Internet, and his team was last. Although Billy said that his father was fine, he was ready to make crazy layoffs when he returned to the team. Economists also thought he was crazy, because he had the only star players left open.
8. Fun and Games (30-35): Billy chatted with the economist, the economist said the questions in everyone's mind. Probably he should go to Stanford instead of entering the majors sooner. Recall, Billy was struck out in the last game, and he couldn't become a champion every year until he got old and became a useless person who could play but no one asked him to play. He eventually became a scout.
9. Midpoint (55): The counterattack begins, and the new team turns the tide with Billy's encouragement. 17 straight, 18 straight, 19 straight...and Billy didn't care. He has only one goal and that is to become a world champion. But at this time, scouts actually became the object of media boasting, which was originally the credit of economists.
10. Bad Guys Close in (55-75): At this time, it was supposed to be a 20-game winning streak, and Billy didn't go to the game because he was afraid the result would not be what he wanted. Today happened to be the day to see his daughter. On the way, his ex-wife called him on the phone. By the way, congratulations to him on his great progress. At this time, his daughter picked up the phone and told him to go to the game. Finally he went back. They were forced into menopause by their opponents. With 11 points ahead, he was actually tied by his opponent. At this time, the old scout asked a person he usually disliked to hit the ball, and he also wanted to gamble. Home run, a ball into the soul. "He didn't even realize he hit a home run."
11. All is Lost (75): They won this season and broke their longest winning streak to date. But what is this? The real test is just beginning. Billy wants a meaningful win. The playoffs have become a nightmare for the A’s. At this time, data is not the most critical technology. The teams in the playoffs are fixed, and all teams will analyze the opposing team. The data is only superficial. The real game does not depend on data, but on the cooperation between coaches and players and then adopt the best tactics to win the opponent. The Athletics were devastated and they were eliminated completely.
12. Dark Night of the Soul (75-85): Billy suffered from the doubts caused by the failure, but at the darkest time his old rival Red Sox coach contacted him and invited him to talk in detail .
13. Break into Three (85): Unexpectedly, the one who understood Billy the most was his sworn enemy. The Red Sox head coach knew Billy's approach well. "It always takes courage to be the first to change. It always does. You threaten their way of doing things, it's breaking the rules of the game and endangering their jobs. Whether it's politics or business, those powerful vested interests will resist you with all their might. ." Finally, he solemnly invited Billy to join the Red Sox, making him the new manager.
14. Finale (85-110): Billy chatted with the economist and learned that the Red Sox invited Belgium to offer a scary salary. But Billy said, "I made my decisions for money, and then I swore I would never do anything for money."
15. Finale Image (110): He is driving the car to his daughter's song. The show's lyrics have changed slightly, singing about Billy's current situation. In the eyes of people Billy is a loser, but in the eyes of those who know him he is an uncompromising winner. Subtitles appear: He turned down a high-paying offer from the Red Sox, and in the days that followed, he stayed on the Athletics and attacked the world championship. The Red Sox still won the championship the following year. Their method was the one Billy used of big data mining.
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