Scouting and scoring How we know what we know about baseball
Book - 2019
"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." --
- Subjects
- Published
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- vii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780691180212
- Introduction
- 1. The Bases of Data
- 2. Henry Chadwick and Scoring Technology
- 3. Official Scoring
- 4. From Project Scoresheet to Big Data
- 5. The Practice of Pricing the Body
- 6. Measuring Head and Heart
- 7. A Machine for Objectivity
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Index