The inside game : bad calls, strange moves, and what baseball behavior teaches us about ourselves / Keith Law.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Law, Keith, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball--United States--Management.

Baseball.

Baseball teams--United States--History.

Baseball teams.

Baseball--Psychological aspects.

Management.

United States.

History.

Baseball--Economic aspects--United States.

Baseball--Economic aspects.

Baseball--Management.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]

Summary:

Keith Law applies Daniel Kahneman's ideas about decision making to the game of baseball, and deepens our knowledge of the sport in this fun and deeply informative book.

Contents:

The case for robot umpires: How anchoring bias influence strike zones and everything else

Never judge an iceberg by its tip: How availability bias shapes the way commentators talk about sports

Winning despite your best efforts: Outcome bias and why winning can be the most misleading stat of all

But this is how we've always done it: Why groupthink alone doesn't make baseball myths true

For every Clayton Kershaw there are ten Kasey Kikers: Base-rate neglect and why it's still a bad idea to draft high school pitchers in the first round

History is written by the survivors: pitch count bingo and why "Nolan Ryan" isn't a counterargument

Cold water on hot streaks: Recency bias and the danger of using just the latest data to predict the future

Grady Little's long eighth-inning walk: Status quo and why doing nothing is the easiest bad call

Tomorrow, this will be someone else's problem: How moral hazard distorts decision-making for GMs, college coaches, and more

Pete Rose's Lionel Hutz defense: The principal-agent problem and how misaligned incentives shape bad baseball decisions

Throwing good money after bad: The sunk cost fallacy and why teams don't "eat" money

The happy fun ball: Optimism bias and the problem of seeing what we want to see

Good decisions: Baseball executives talk about their thought processes behind smart trades and signings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780062942722

0062942727

OCLC:

1153027256