10 Movies Where It Didn't Matter That The Hero Lost

Moneyball painted the 2002 Oakland Athletics as a classic underdog. After a strong season, the team had three of their best players poached from them by bigger baseball teams, and had very little money to try and replace them.

This led to the team's general manager, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) to try something drastic, namely the Moneyball theory in which they looked at nothing but statistics to play the game of baseball. The season started terribly, and there was no one but Beane and his assistant, Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) that gave the experiment a chance, but still they persisted.

Eventually, things began to turn round and the Athletics set a new record for most Major League Baseball wins in a row, however this wasn't enough for Billy. He wouldn't be happy until they won the World Series. Only then would he consider them a success.

Despite their strong season and the plaudits coming their way, the As lost before they could even get to the World Series. However, Peter Brand sat his boss down and explained that even in spite of the loss, they were successful, and they had changed the game of baseball. Even if they didn't have a trophy to show for it just yet, they were on the right path, so much so that the Boston Red Sox tried to hire Beane himself. After he rejected them, the biggest team in Baseball still followed his and Brand's model.