Scouting and Scoring - How We Know What We Know About Baseball

Zusatztext "Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine" Informationen zum Autor Christopher J. Phillips is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The New Math: A Political History . Twitter @cjphillips100 Klappentext "Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic diverions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor in order to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players."--Jacket flap. Zusammenfassung An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic d

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Phillips, Christopher J. Phillips
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780691217161
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21716-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Baseball, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Statistics, History of Science, Social and cultural history, Social research & statistics, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics