Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
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Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball
By (Author) Christopher J. Phillips
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th June 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social research and statistics
Probability and statistics
History of science
Social and cultural history
796.357
Physical Properties
Hardback
320
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
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 d
Reviews
"Winner of a SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball Research"
"Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine"
"The subject of Christopher Phillipss Scouting and Scoring is baseball, but its worth reading for more than just the baseball. The book is an effort to help us understand one of the oldest problems in modern societies, which is how to evaluate human beings."---Louis Menand, New Yorker
"Phillips book is an enticing read for baseball data enthusiasts and, more broadly, those interested in thinking about notions such as fact and truth, how one measures the seemingly immeasurable, and attempts to quantify human potential."---Russ Goodman, MAA Reviews
Author Bio
Christopher J. Phillips is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of The New Math: A Political History. His work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Science, and Nature. He lives in Pittsburgh.
