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Scorecasting Audiobook Summary

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.

Drawing from Moskowitz’s original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships;  the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees’ tendencies in every sport to “swallow the whistle,” and more.

Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals:

   • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are
   • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks
   • The myth of momentum  or the “hot hand” in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it
   • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations–even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning.

In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.

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Scorecasting Audiobook Narrator

Zach McLarty is the narrator of Scorecasting audiobook that was written by Tobias Moskowitz

About the Author(s) of Scorecasting

Tobias Moskowitz is the author of Scorecasting

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Scorecasting Full Details

Narrator Zach McLarty
Length 9 hours 31 minutes
Author Tobias Moskowitz
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 28, 2024
ISBN 9780307877680

Subjects

The publisher of the Scorecasting is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: basketball gifts, baseball, basketball, chicago cubs, economics, football, non-fiction, sports, statistics, athletic games, athletes, pop culture, scoring, stats, Tiger Woods, mathematicians, MLB, quantitative analysis, Freakonomics, Sports Illustrated, microeconomics, human behavior, bias, biases, instant replay, Major league baseball, umpires, home team, errors, steroids, sports books, sports betting, sports gifts, football gifts, sports analytics, sport, math, sports psychology, mathematics, sports book, data, numbers, data science, Sports & Recreation, Sports Psychology, Mathematics, Probability & Statistics, General, Sports & Recreation, Business Aspects The BISAC Subject Code is Sports & Recreation, Sports Psychology

Additional info

The publisher of the Scorecasting is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307877680.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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