1. how did billy beane and pete use economic ideas and principles to build the oakland athletics into a great team with very limited money? 2. prior to billy beane, how efficiently were scarce resources allocated throughout major league baseball? was it a smart allocation? explain. 3. in the past, how did professional baseball teams generally choose which player they would take and how much money they would pay them? was economics or scientific reasoning a part of their decision making? 4. why do you think other recruiters in the oakland a's organization resisted billy beane's changes? 5. when he was a young rising star in the 1980's, how was billy beane's life led in the wrong direction by the ways of measuring players' abilities? why did this cause him frustration and confusion? how would things have been different under the economic way of measuring player ability? 6. what are some other areas of the world that you feel could be better managed if economic analysis were applied? 7. your own personal thoughts about the movie.