Character mistake: In the pivotal scene where Bolly and Jonah are explaining the need to replace their departing players in the aggregate, Jonah adds up 3 players on base percentage and divides by three. You can't get an accurate average for a rate stat by that means unless all the players had the same number of plate appearances, which they did not. The answer given by Jonah Hill is 14 points low. When the older scout questions it, Beane scolds him that he "didn't carry the one." Same mistake is in the book.
Moneyball (2011)
1 character mistake - chronological order
Directed by: Bennett Miller
Starring: Brad Pitt, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright, Stephen Bishop
Genres: Drama
Factual error: In the crowd at one of the games where Brad Pitt (Billy Beane) shows up to the game, there is a kid with a camera phone taking a picture of him. Camera phones weren't available in the US until after the time frame of this movie.
Billy Beane: You think losing is fun?
Trivia: Although it isn't shown in the film, Billy Beane managed, by using Paul DePodesto's sabermetric analysis, to get thirteen of the twenty players he wanted in the 2002 amateur draft. At the time, this was unprecedented; no GM before had ever finished the draft with more than six of their top choices, and most GMs are lucky to even get their top two or three choices.
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