As a small market team in any sport, without the money to buy back your all stars, it’s hard to make it back to the playoffs. In the true story of the movie “Moneyball”, The general manager of the Oakland A’s made it possible to be a winner by spending less.

“Moneyball” is a baseball movie dream come true that shows a different angle of how a smaller market team can build a playoff team without competing with all star talent.

The movie takes place in 2002, right after the Oakland A’s have exited the first round of the playoffs to the Yankees. After the heartbreaking exit in the first round, the general manager can’t afford to buy back all of his all star talent due to money constraints with the team. While figuring out a way to contend in the playoffs and keep his job, he runs into an economic genius of baseball stats. They pair up as a team to build a cheap baseball team just based on statistical analysis of on base percentage, batting average, walks, runs, and more.

At the start of the season, Billy Bean has seen his team dip into last place. Enraged, he starts trading his value players, going all in on the economic scheme to build a playoff team, having some comedic and unreal emotions.

After going all in with the Moneyball strategy, The Oakland A’s are seen by winning games, and a lot of them. In the movie, it highlights the greatest scene as the Oakland A’s are on the verge of breaking a MLB record of a 20 game win streak. On the twentieth game, though, they blew a 11-0 lead where a man named Scott Hateinberg who was a very skeptical signing earlier in the movie sees himself hitting a walk off home run to win the 20th game of the season.

I strongly enjoyed this movie and recommend it due to the sheer emotion of starting at the bottom to later watching everything pay off at the end. Even if a person doesn’t enjoy baseball, it’s a movie that a lot of people enjoy as it’s all about taking risks while making history in the process. My score for this movie is 9/10. This is because people do not enjoy baseball as much as others. If viewers pay attention and follow along, it’s a great story of high risk to high reward having comedy, heartbreak, and heartwarming emotions, all in the game of baseball.