Christopher Phillips

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Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about BaseballPaperback, 30 March 2021

Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
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Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
30 Mar 2021
ISBN-10
0691217165
ISBN-13
9780691217161

Description

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 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 fields to introduce numerical analysis, and new methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to replace scouting with scoring. But that's not how things turned out. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, Scouting and Scoring reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.

Product Details

Author:
Christopher Phillips
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
30 March 2021
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0691217165
ISBN-13:
9780691217161
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
320
Weight:
272.16 gm

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