I haven't read the book, but listening to Jonah Keri's interview with the author, it really seems to lapse into tons of psychological hypotheses (which I think is lazy and are unprovable) and it just seems to have that aura of shallow arrogance that made 'Moneyball' (and a hundred copycats) kinda disingenuous. On paper you can skip tables, but when they are read on the audiobook version, you are trapped! Categories: I learned that I ne. Read this front to back in 24 hours, couldn’t recommend this enough for anyone interested in sports. Not always easy to read as there are lots of statistics and numbers but if you are patient and think your way through they make good arguments for such subjects as Does Defense Really Win Championships?
and There is nothing truly new or breakthrough in this book, but it is another solid entry in the sportsonomics category. Think there is a home team bias?
When he gets a hit, he's the last batter because the game ends. Unfortunately, this book doesn't hold attention quite as well as Freakonomics, but if you're a sports fan and a math nerd it's an interesting read. PSYCHOLOGY I learned that I need to look at things from different perspectives. Perhaps the authors’ most compelling—and pot-stirringly controversial—argument is the contention that home-field advantage, a statistically credible phenomenon in every sport, is almost exclusively a result of referee bias, itself a product of the psychological effect of home fans exhorting officials to make calls that favor their team, a subconscious influence even the best officials cannot overcome. Yet, the home crowd DOES influence games...just in a different fashion.
If you know what you’re looking for, jump right to the list of All 50+ Summaries.. I’m a sports enthusiast and a researcher interested in organizational behavior and information systems. We’d love your help. We are told, for instance, to “be conspicuous at all cost,” then told to “behave like others.” More seriously, Greene never really defines “power,” and he merely asserts, rather than offers evidence for, the Hobbesian world of all against all in which he insists we live. Sure enough, players hitting .300 on the season's last day are much more likely to take the day off than are players hitting .299.". Scorecasting The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won. Den einen schenkt es sehr coole Infos über den Sport, den Sie lieben, den anderen mal eine erfrischende Abwechslung zu den typischen VWL-„wie bewege ich Leute dazu, ihr Geld sinnvoll zu investieren“ Use Cases. RELEASE DATE: Jan. 25, 2011.
It debunks many sports myths through statistics (for example home court advantage, etc. We’re glad you found a book that interests you. In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. It's really just an illusion caused by selective sampling. The authors frequently refer to studies and papers and books that have been out for years, sometimes decades, to help bolster their contentions.
Given this “go for it” attitude is statistically favorable for the average team I have to think it's doubly favorable for the Chargers and their abysmal special teams play. Psychological experiments have repeatedly revealed that our intuitions are generally wrong, that our assessments are based on biases and that our System 1 hates doubt and despises ambiguity.
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