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Fat Brown hit the ball with his bat and quickly moved his bulky body and ran to first base. He planned to try something that he had never done before, expecting that he seemed to send the ball far enough or that the fielder would accidentally miss the ball. In short, Fat Brown did not stop his footsteps on first base. Instead, speed up the swing of both hands and continue to run to second base. Unfortunately, the disobedience of his feet caused him to fall to the ground in embarrassment. Feeling annoyed and ashamed, he didn't wait to get up and turned his huge body like a tortoise, raised the yellow sand in all directions, and stretched out his right hand, trying to touch the base bag quickly so as not to be sentenced out. Everyone on the court laughed. Fat Brown, who was still lying on the ground, looked up at his teammates and the enemy's first basemen shouting at him, waving his hands and pointing in the direction of second base. That's a home run! Fat Brown finally heard clearly.

The original English name of "Penalty Kick" is Moneyball, and the English name of baseball is Baseball. From a literal point of view, Money is used to buy Base. The above base rate replaces the traditional five indicators of baseball's talent judgment. At a time when the on-base rate was not taken seriously, the value of players with high on-base rate was underestimated, and this just gave teams with weak financial resources a chance to build a championship lineup. The theme of the movie is how Billy uses such a brand-new player evaluation system to subvert the judgment of talent in the baseball world. But I'm not interested in how the Athletics team won 20 straight, but Billy.

Looking back at Billy's experience, we can know where his distrust of the evaluation, intuition, and experience of the five abilities that baseball scouts rely on comes from. But Billy knew that this set was available, but it didn't apply to him. After Moneyball was implemented, due to the coach's lack of cooperation, it was still unable to exert its effect. It was not until Billy reorganized the list of players and even began to replace the coach to guide the players, which finally began to win. But before that, how could he endure these for so long? What if he completely believed that this set of Moneyball was feasible from the start? Oh! Don't forget that Billy's unremarkable player career lasted for nearly five years before he realized he was not suitable for being a player.

I think the movie shows Billy's character in these three places. Even if he felt something, he still couldn't really see the situation clearly, and couldn't make strong judgments or actions that convinced him in the first time. It's like the movie Peter showed Billy about Fat Brown running.

Billy always felt that he had made a decision because of money, which was a major decision in life. But Peter told him that this is not the case. You should not only smell the copper smell of money, but also see the value behind it.

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