I am not into sports. Maybe because I was not especially good at it. Even a little bit of exertion would throw me into a breathing difficulty due to asthma. Many Aspies also suffer from coordination problems. So generally speaking I am not a good player in most sports and because of that I am not a fan or spectator of sports. But there exist goodness in sports, and they are very valuable.
This conversation reminds me of a movie you might like to watch. Now if I can only think of the name of the movie. [Short break to search the Internet] Ah, here it is. The movie is called Moneyball. The whole heart of this movie revolves around Peter Brand, an Aspie type character who exhibits genius type traits in analyzing baseball players.
Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane is hurt by his team's loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 American League Division Series. With the impending departure of star players Johnny Damon, Jason Giambi, and Jason Isringhausen to free agency, Beane needs to assemble a competitive team for 2002 with Oakland's limited budget. During a scouting visit to the Cleveland Indians, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess player value. Rather than relying on scouts' experience and intuition, Brand uses sabermetrics, selecting players based on their on-base percentage (OBP) while ignoring their perceived weaknesses. Brand and Beane use this methodology to hire undervalued players such as unorthodox submarine pitcher Chad Bradford, aging outfielder David Justice, and injured catcher Scott Hatteberg. [And the process of scouting and selecting players is changed forever.]
The other interesting thing about this movie is that it is NOT fiction. It is based on actual facts.
It is a great movie to watch. And points the way on how an Aspie might integrate into the sport.
01 Aug 2019, 10:05 am
