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Originally Posted by billyray1984
After having rewatched the movie for the first time in a decade, it's kind of staggering how much the movie gets right and how much it gets wrong (well, not wrong, but how much it takes liberties with real life).
I really like all the interactions with old scouts and how much they focused on stuff that organizations pretty much do not look at nowadays in our wolrd of advanced analytics (i.e. he's got a good jaw, you can hear the ball pop out the bat, good legs, etc.). It's really on the nose since the real Beane was using sabermetrics in the 90's while he was assistant gm, so I doubt he would keep a scouting team soulely comprised of old white dudes in their late 60's, but it's fun.
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Back in the mid '70's, as a young airman in the barracks, I got involved in a massive Strat league..we played in the dayroom, and there were games going pretty much non-stop.
I drafted right out of a sabremetrics manual...ten years before I read my first Bill James annual abstract. Hell..the first three I read were stapled, and about 40 pages.
Let's say I was an early adopter of OBP vs. strictly average. I easily won our league. Gotta get on base to score runs.