The biggest change in sports has been in tracking during (competitions) and after (health). Among this change are three groups; scouts, story-tellers (the media) and sabermetricians. Let’s momentarily defend scouts, the Richard I of their era. Before analytics joined the team, sport scouts were the best way to get information on a player. And though they are maligned today, they did a good job. The 'five tool' baseball player was just a basic quantification. Today it seems rudimentary but for classification and ordinal rankings it did the job well.
💩 scouts, stories, and sabermetricians
💩 scouts, stories, and sabermetricians
💩 scouts, stories, and sabermetricians
The biggest change in sports has been in tracking during (competitions) and after (health). Among this change are three groups; scouts, story-tellers (the media) and sabermetricians. Let’s momentarily defend scouts, the Richard I of their era. Before analytics joined the team, sport scouts were the best way to get information on a player. And though they are maligned today, they did a good job. The 'five tool' baseball player was just a basic quantification. Today it seems rudimentary but for classification and ordinal rankings it did the job well.