Whoa! Stats Kung-Fu Comes to Scouting Book

Now Online: Expanded Scouting Reports With Stats and Highlights

We told you new things were coming. Today, we're rolling out our new expanded prospect reports, with more details on each player and more complete reports on their likely futures. We're also showing their minor and international league pitching, fielding and batting statistics wherever possible, complete with remarkable highlights and worrisome trends helpfully flagged for your convenience.

Deep inside Scouting Book Mountain, we churn through gigabytes of data, hours of video, and boxes of paper reports every baseball season. But since access to our special high-security baseball bunker is limited to Scouting Book staff (and pizza delivery guys), most of the world only sees the tiniest tip of our information, like the summarized profiles and the calculated prospect rankings that everyone loves so much.

As valuable as the deeper and more technical info can be, most of it isn't really suitable for public view. Unless you enjoy living inside walls full of Matrix-like scrolling green numbers all day, in fact, you probably wouldn't get much value out of it. It's great data, sure, but it's just too raw to do much with. So we sort, we process, we filter, and we work to refine and share the most useful parts when we can, especially if we can massage it into clear information for you, our readers.

As one very visible step in that direction, today you'll notice that we have greatly expanded the hundreds of Prospect pages that make up a large part of Scouting Book. We warned you we'd be rolling out a number of improvements this season, and this is the first major one.

For starters, we've exposed more of the core information that we've always been looking at in-house, but not displayed to the public, such as a player's height, weight, handedness, alma mater and birthplace, for example. It's not a big change, but at least that should save you a few trips to Google, we figure.

More significantly, we're also now showing recent/relevant statistics from each prospect's growing body of professional work. This data might help you understand why we think some of the things we do about some of these fine young players.

And we're not just dumping numbers at you, either: we're showing you which ones probably matter the most. Like a handy assistant GM with a magic red pen and a highlighter, our 'intelligent' stats pages will point out some of the most-likely noteworthy performances for you. We hope this makes those sometimes blinding walls of numbers a little less painful to scan, especially if you're just looking for the good bits.

We hope you enjoy these expanded Prospect pages. If you like the idea of seeing more of the deeper information that makes Scouting Book's magic engines churn, stay tuned: you're going to love some of the next things we'll be revealing. (Here's a hint: next time, it won't be about numbers.)

Thanks for reading and supporting ScoutingBook.com.

(P.S.: Those stats displays are new, at least in their freshly-waxed public skins, so please forgive us for any oversights or errors you may find in the weeks to come. We'll be watching closely and fixing problems as they're encountered, and after things seem well-behaved, we'll get back to adding more of that top sekrit information that we know you're all dying for.)

 

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