Rewatched Moneyball, a dramatization of the Oakland A's from the end of the 2001 season to the end of the 2002 season. After 2001 they lost three stars (Jason Giambi, Johnny Damon and Jason Isringhausen) because they couldn't pay them and at the time they had the lowest payroll in Major League Baseball.

A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is kind of at a loss until he meets Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), a young assistant who's written a computer program that rates baseball players based on Bill James' methodology. Beane hires Brand and decides he's going to replace his losses with undervalued players including former catcher Scott Hatteberg (Chris Pratt) who has to convert to first base, an aging David Justice (Stephen Bishop) at the tail end of his career, Giambi's lesser brother Jeremy (Nick Porrazzo) and no-speed unconventional pitcher Chad Bradford (Casey Bond).

But unfortunately this sets him at odds with his scouting staff and he ends up firing the head scout. Meanwhile A's manager Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is both unhappy he's still on a 1-year contract and doesn't like using the retread players. Beane has to fight his staff and the media and believe that statistically the team he's assembled will make it into the playoffs even after a 20-26 start...

Drama, baseball, statistics. It's a good film even though there's not that much baseball action.