Moneyball: What Happened To Paul DePodesta (The Real Peter Brand)

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Jonah Hill's character in Moneyball, Peter Brand,has an intriguing real-life story, beginning with the fact that his real name is in fact Paul DePodesta. DePodesta was the inspiration for Hill's unexpected mastermind of the analytics approach at the center of the 2011 baseball drama that reinvents the fortunes of Billy Beane's (Brad Pitt) Oakland A's. Indeed, in real life, Paul DePodesta's net worth has skyrocketed due to his contributions to the game. Moneyball considerably changed Michael Lewis' book, and some of that work went into reinventing the real-life story of Paul and Billy Beane's journey to the cutting edge of sports management — as penned by renowned and controversial screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

Paul DePodesta graduated from Harvard with an economics degree before working as a scout for Cleveland, where he was plucked by Billy Beane to come personally fix the Oakland A's. Just as is shown through Peter Brand, he had an ace up his sleeve: a belief in a completely quantitative approach to running the team using «sabermetrics» (derived from the Society for American Baseball Research acronym «SABR»). Beane and DePodesta used this revolutionary approach to win 20 straight games on a shoestring budget with a philosophy built not around superstars but around mathematical certainties (to the extent that it was possible), and their success would go on to influence professional sports of all kinds for years to come. Moneyball's key inspiration, Paul DePodesta, would be at the heart of that evolution.

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After the success of the 2002 A's season that revolutionized the sport of baseball, the real Billy Beane and Paul DePodesta were primed to take big career