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.
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..
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.
Scorers drew on moral judgments, depended on human labor to maintain and correct data, and designed bureaucratic systems to make statistics appear reliable.
Scouts expressed their judgments in highly formulaic ways, using numerical grades and scientific instruments to evaluate players.
Over the decades, Scouting and scoring started looking increasingly similar.
But that\'s not how things turned out.
New technologies and methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to quantify the drafting and managing of players--replacing Scouting with scoring.
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.
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.
In Scouting and Scoring , Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions.
Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics.
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
