Moneyball (2011)

I love baseball, so by default I am supposed to love this movie, but unfortunately this movie was a bit to long.  It follows the true story of Billy Bean, the GM of the Oakland A's, and his quest to make the best team possible out of the smallest payroll in the league.  He struggles with the old fashion mindset of finding and replacing good players with good players.  In his search he runs across a recent Yale graduate Peter Brand (played by Jonah Hill, superbe).  Peter graduated in finance and had created a formula to access players, not just if they were super stars, but what their on base percentages were.
Billy find this idea as a valuable new way to look at creating a team and takes a large chance in doing it.  If you remember back to the 2002 season, they were the laughing stock of the league, but then went on the get the longest win streak of any team in the history of the game. 

There are a couple back stories that were needed to explain some aspects of the story, but sadly they made the movie long.  Jonah Hill was amazing and well deservant of his Oscar nod, while Brad Pitt did a great job as well.