TY  - BOOK
AU  - Law,Keith
TI  - The inside game: bad calls, strange moves, and what baseball behavior teaches us about ourselves 
SN  - 9780062942722
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow,  an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Baseball
KW  - United States
KW  - Management
KW  - Baseball teams
KW  - History
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -