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Phillips, Christopher.
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Baseball -- Decision making -- History.
Baseball players -- Selection and appointment -- History.
Baseball -- Scouting -- History.
Baseball -- Scorekeeping -- History.
Sports officiating.
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Phillips, Christopher.
Baseball -- Decision making -- History.
Baseball players -- Selection and appointment -- History.
Baseball -- Scouting -- History.
Baseball -- Scorekeeping -- History.
Sports officiating.
MARC Display
Scouting
and
scoring
:
how
we
know
what
we
know
about
baseball
/ Christopher J. Phillips.
by
Phillips, Christopher.
Princeton University Press, 2019.
Call #:
796.357 P558s
Subjects
Baseball
-- Decision making -- History.
Baseball
players -- Selection and appointment -- History.
Baseball
--
Scouting
-- History.
Baseball
-- Scorekeeping -- History.
Sports officiating.
ISBN:
9780691180212 (hc.)
Description:
vii, 301 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The bases of data -- Henry Chadwick and
scoring
technology -- Official
scoring
-- From project scoresheet to big dat -- The practice of pricin g the body -- Measuring head and heart -- A machine for objectivity.
Summary:
"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."
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