Evaluating the 20-80 Scouting Scale on a 20-80 Scale
by Freneau on Apr 22, 2011 12:56 PM EDT
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I love the fake precision of it
Apparently only of increments of 5 can be used, and most people use 10- making it a 7 point scale.
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by Boots 58 on Apr 22, 2011 1:17 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
30% of the time it's between 61 and 63 tops. TOPS.
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Apr 22, 2011 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
I find this part interesting:
Much like a kind teacher giving the slow kid 10 points just for getting his name right on the top of an assignment, baseball prospects get 20 points just for, you know, existing, I guess.
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but only 80 for being a HOFer
though i’ve heard prospects from georgia can get 90 rankings
kinda like that honors/ap bump some HS use
We've had a few guys on the major league roster in recent years
who went to 11 on the 20-80 scale.
by Black and Gold on Apr 22, 2011 3:00 PM EDT up reply actions
-20 is a type of 20.
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Apr 22, 2011 5:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Why not just make your scale go to 80 and make 80 a bit more exclusive than the 80s of other scales?
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The 20-80 scale explained
A nice little explanation here. It is based on a normal distribution with each unit of 10 being one standard distribution from the mean. This is uncharacteristically numbersy for the scouting crowd, but I’ve read this explanation from many sources.
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i'd love to see a distribution of the actual scores given
because something tells me it doesn’t follow that rubric
Yeah, I think the mathematical explanation above accurately describes the genesis of the 20-80 scale, but I doubt the freqency of the various numbers given out match a normal distribution. Of course I really don’t know. But it’s not like they give out a lot of 70’s and 80’s, at least not from the scouting reports I’ve read.
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by Scott McKinney on Apr 22, 2011 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
I would love to hear a "behind the scenes" account as to whether most scouts even know this
Maybe the way grades are given out happens to coincide with the standard distribution model, but I can’t believe it’s because they understand the probability theory.
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by SagehenMacGyver47 on Apr 22, 2011 2:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Political science
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by Scott McKinney on Apr 22, 2011 3:53 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah...ive seen very few 80s attached to prospects....
stanton and harpers power, there’ve been a few 80 speed guys….but the handful that are given out out of the thousands of guys scouted makes it seem like they follow that scale pretty closely
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by billybeingbilly on Apr 22, 2011 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions
That seems really scientific
For something that seems very arbitrary.
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or maybe he agrees
either way
by Freneau on Apr 22, 2011 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Lots of standardized tests use a 20-80 scale
PSAT sections are 20-80
SAT sections are 200-800
SAT II tests are 200-800
The LSAT is 120-180
I guess if they were using the same distribution, then a 70/170/700 would be a 95th percentile, and my memory is that it’s a bit lower than that, but otherwise, this seems like a pretty widespread scale
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by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Apr 22, 2011 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
He writes
like his hair is on fire
by HisownZone on Apr 22, 2011 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
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