Hi,

My name is Tyler and I am a huge baseball fan! My favorite team is the Pittsburgh Pirates, which is clearly the best team in the MLB.

I got my idea for my project when one day in the summer, my dad and I watched the movie moneyball staring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. This movie was about how the early 2000's Oakland Athletics went deep into the playoffs with a very small players pay roll. I loved this movie, and when the school year rolled around, and we were informed about our year long capstone project called pinnacle, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I started to do research this strategy and the creators of it, Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta.

So, what exactly is Moneyball? Well, as I said earlier, it is a form of sabermetrics (the empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity) that uses certain stats to measure how many runs a certain player would produce in a single season. Billy Beane knew he did not have the money to sign big name free agents, so he had his assistant GM Paul DePodesta write a computer software that would help them pick players that would be cheap, but also produce a lot of runs.