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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Law, Keith, 1973- author.     Subjects     Baseball -- United States -- Management.     Baseball teams -- United States -- History.     Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States.     Baseball -- Psychological aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Law, Keith, 1973- author.       by title:      The inside game : ba...         MARC Display

The inside game : bad calls, strange moves, and what baseball behavior teaches us about ourselves / Keith Law. by Law, Keith, 1973- author. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2020] Subjects Baseball -- United States -- Management.   Baseball teams -- United States -- History.   Baseball -- Economic aspects -- United States.   Baseball -- Psychological aspects. ISBN:  9780062942722 (hbk.) : 0062942727 (hbk.) Description:  viii, 263 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 796.357 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.357 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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