{"product_id":"scouting-and-scoring-how-we-know-what-we-know-about-baseball-paperback","title":"Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScouting 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 \u003ci\u003eScouting and Scoring\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eScouting and Scoring\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher J. Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Math: A Political History\u003c\/i\u003e. Twitter @cjphillips100\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101921382535,"sku":"9780691217161","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/4ef9ff829318e1c1767cbeca06fbfde2.webp?v=1732398617","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/scouting-and-scoring-how-we-know-what-we-know-about-baseball-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}