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Assignment: MONEYBALL - Selection Practices in the Business of Major League Baseball Oakland Athletics (A Major League Baseball Team) general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is upset by his team's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 postseason.
With the departure/loss of a number of star players (employees) to other baseball teams, Beane (the general manager) attempts to devise a recruitment and selection strategy for assembling a competitive team for the coming year, 2002. A number of factors are forcing him to change his strategy, the most powerful of which is, the Oakland A's limited payroll budget.
During a visit to another team to attempt buy/trade some players, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young Yale Economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess players' predicted performance on a baseball team. Peter Brand introduces Billy Beane to a non-traditional player selection approach and methodology called Sabermetrics.
Beane decides to adopt the Sabermetrics approach when hiring the new players he needs to add to his team for the up- coming season. Rather than relying on the scouts' experience and intuition, Brand selects players based almost exclusively on their on base percentage (OBP). By finding players with a high OBP (even if they have characteristics that would lead scouts to dismiss them), Brand assembles a team of undervalued players with far more potential than the Oakland A's hamstrung finances would otherwise allow.
The team's scouts are first dismissive of and then hostile towards this non-traditional, scientific and quantitative approach to scouting (selecting) players. Despite vehement objections from the scouts, Beane supports Brand's theory and hires the players using the selection criteria of Sabermetrics. In order to overcome some significant internal barriers and resistance (e.g. Howe, the coach, disregards Beane and Brand's strategy and plays the team in a traditional style despite their unsuitability), Beane eventually trades away a number of the traditionally selected players/incumbents to force Howe (the coach) to use only the new recruits.
Early in first half of the season, the Athletics fare poorly, leading critics within and outside the team to dismiss the new method as a dismal failure. Beane convinces the owner to stay the course, and eventually the team's record begins to improve. The Athletics go on to win 20 consecutive games breaking the record for longest winning streak in American League history.
Then, despite all their success in the second half of the season, the A's lose in the first round of the postseason, this time to the Minnesota Twins. Beane is disappointed, but satisfied at having demonstrated the value of his and Brand's selection methods. Beane is later approached by the owner of the Boston Red Sox, who realizes that the Sabermetric model is the future of baseball, and offers to hire Beane as the general manager of the Red Sox in order to bring the Sabermetrics approach to player selection to his team.
Beane passes up the opportunity, despite an offer of a $12.5 million salary, which would have made him the highest-paid general manager in sports history. He returns to Oakland to continue managing the Athletics. In 2004, two years after adopting the Sabermetric model, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series since 1918. The Oakland A's have not........

Question: provide complete and correct answers to the following questions as they relate to the movie, MONEYBALL shown in class today.

1.What are the business goals of the Oakland A's Baseball Team?

2.What are the external factors that are impacting their recruitment and selection?

3.What are the internal factors that are impacting their recruitment and selection?

4.What were the old selection criteria the Oakland A's used for scouting/selecting players? What type of selection model were they using? What were the consequences/outcomes? What biases/perceived flaws are systemic in this system?

5.What are their new selection criteria? What type of selection model are they using? What are the consequences/outcomes

6.There are aspects of playing/performing on a professional sports team that their purely number/results based model fails to address.