TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phillips,Christopher J.
TI  - Scouting and Scoring: How We Know What We Know about Baseball 
SN  - 9780691188980
AV  - GV880.22 
U1  - 796.357 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Baseball
KW  - Scouting
KW  - Baseball-Scouting-United States
KW  - Sports officiating
KW  - Sports-United States-Statistics
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / Statistics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Accounting
KW  - Adobe
KW  - Adolphe Quetelet
KW  - Batting order (cricket)
KW  - Big data
KW  - Book
KW  - Boosterism
KW  - Bruno Latour
KW  - Bureaucrat
KW  - CD-ROM
KW  - Calculation
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Career
KW  - Computer memory
KW  - Computer
KW  - Credential
KW  - Credibility
KW  - Data analysis
KW  - Data science
KW  - Data
KW  - Database
KW  - Determination
KW  - Gallatin School of Individualized Study
KW  - General manager
KW  - Gillette (brand)
KW  - Guideline
KW  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Inference
KW  - Information Card
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Intersubjectivity
KW  - Karl Pearson
KW  - Kenneth Cukier
KW  - Level of detail
KW  - Lorraine Daston
KW  - Mainframe computer
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Negotiation
KW  - New York University
KW  - Percentage
KW  - Prediction
KW  - Press box
KW  - Pricing
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Probability
KW  - Processing (programming language)
KW  - Publication
KW  - Punched card
KW  - Quiz
KW  - Records management
KW  - Requirement
KW  - Result
KW  - Running
KW  - Salary
KW  - Scientist
KW  - Statcast
KW  - Statistic
KW  - Statistical database
KW  - Statistical regularity
KW  - Statistician
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Supervisor
KW  - Tabulating machine
KW  - Technology
KW  - The New York Times
KW  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Website
KW  - Year
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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; restricted access
N2  - An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseballScouting 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.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.A unique consideration of the role of quantitative measurement and human judgment, Scouting and Scoring provides an entirely fresh understanding of baseball by showing what the sport reveals about reliable knowledge in the modern world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691188980?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691188980
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691188980/original
ER  -