Download PDF Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher Phillips 9780691180212 Books
Download As PDF : Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher Phillips 9780691180212 Books
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball
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 divisions. 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.
Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest and most consequential fields for the introduction of numerical analysis. New technologies and methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to quantify the drafting and managing of players―replacing scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. Over the decades, scouting and scoring started looking increasingly similar. Scouts expressed their judgments in highly formulaic ways, using numerical grades and scientific instruments to evaluate players. Scorers drew on moral judgments, depended on human labor to maintain and correct data, and designed bureaucratic systems to make statistics appear reliable. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, the history of baseball reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science.
A unique consideration of the role of quantitative measurement and human judgment, Scouting and Scoring provides an entirely fresh understanding of baseball by showing what the sport reveals about reliable knowledge in the modern world.
Download PDF Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher Phillips 9780691180212 Books
"Chris Phillips has written the book to bring the history of baseball scoring, scouting, and scientific analysis of performance into the 21st century by looking back to its origins. It documents the techniques pioneered by Henry Chadwick to score baseball games in a uniform and informative way and brings them into contemporary baseball and decision making. Managing what can be measured is the basis of the story, but not necessarily in the way one would initially think."
Product details
|
Tags : Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball [Christopher Phillips] on . <b>An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball</b> Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition,Christopher Phillips,Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball,Princeton University Press,0691180210,Baseball,General Adult,HISTORY / Social History,History of science,History/Social History,Non-Fiction,Probability statistics,SCIENCE / History,SPORTS RECREATION / Baseball / History,SPORTS RECREATION / Baseball / Statistics,Science/History,Social cultural history,Social research statistics,Sports,Sports Recreation/Baseball - History,UNIVERSITY PRESS,United States
Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher Phillips 9780691180212 Books Reviews :
Scouting and Scoring How We Know What We Know about Baseball Christopher Phillips 9780691180212 Books Reviews
- Chris Phillips has written the book to bring the history of baseball scoring, scouting, and scientific analysis of performance into the 21st century by looking back to its origins. It documents the techniques pioneered by Henry Chadwick to score baseball games in a uniform and informative way and brings them into contemporary baseball and decision making. Managing what can be measured is the basis of the story, but not necessarily in the way one would initially think.
