Moneyball: What Happened To Paul DePodesta (The Real Peter Brand)

Jonah Hill’s character in Moneyball, Peter Brand, has an intriguing real-life story, beginning with the fact that his real name is in fact Paul DePodesta. DePodesta was the inspiration for Hill’s unexpected mastermind of the analytics approach at the center of the 2011 baseball drama that reinvents the fortunes of Billy Beane’s (Brad Pitt) Oakland A’s. Indeed, in real life, Paul DePodesta’s net worth has skyrocketed due to his contributions to the game. Moneyball considerably changed Michael Lewis’ book, and some of that work went into reinventing the real-life story of Paul and Billy Beane’s journey to the cutting edge of sports management.