War crimes, misophonia, boring ball games
War crimes, misophonia, boring ball games
- April 30, 2019
- Edwin Amenta, sociology, via BYU Radio, April 30, 2019 (Audio)
How Statistics Have Changed Baseball. Guest: Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology,
University of California, Irvine. Major League Baseball scouts used to choose players
based on their intuition. That all changed in 2002 when the Oakland A’s decided to
use statistics instead. It turns out you can put together a successful team with help
from a computer, and it revolutionized how the game is played throughout the entire
major league.
For the full story, please visit http://www.byuradio.org/episode/e58edeca-e88e-45c1-9805-ce5d518ffe92/top-of-mind-with-julie-rose-war-crimes-misophonia-boring-ball-games?playhead=2243&autoplay=true.
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