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jaybug:

--- Quote from: zherok on August 14, 2013, 12:25:58 AM ---Could compare it to Moneyball, though that was more statistics than pure business strategy.

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Okay, I'll bite; and disagree. Moneyball is moving people around to improve things. Moshidora is doing things to improve what those people do. No one got traded in Moshidora. lol Baseball is the analogy at play in the anime, whereas statistics is the analogy in Moneyball. Both are demonstrations of business practices, and the two would have been closer had Billy Beane not been able to trade anyone from his lineup. He would have had to find ways to improve the talent he already had, instead of acquiring it elsewhere.

Or argue it as science versus art. Moneyball is using science, whereas getting people to do better is an art.

zherok:
I wasn't arguing they were identical, they're both fairly esoteric topics. Not likely there's all that many baseball anime that get any closer to something like Moneyball than Moshidora.

jaybug:
Baseball, no. But maybe "C" might come closer to the theory behind Moneyball.

Bob2004:
OK, yeah, anyone who's thinking about watching the live action version - don't waste your time. They've butchered most of it, and Maeda Atsuko's acting is atrocious. To make things worse, the subtitles in the only English release I could find are so incredibly dire, you'll have trouble understanding a lot of things if you don't speak at least a bit of Japanese. And if you do speak Japanese, you'll still find them incredibly distracting because of the quality.

Stick with the anime is my advice. It's far superior in almost every way.

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