This book will change the way you analyze sports with topics ranging from the forces behind home-field advantage, the benefits of playing football without kickers and punters, how NFL draft picks are valued, and much more. It's short, simple, and very entertaining.

"If you're the kind of person who spends a lot of time on the Internet arguing about sports, you will be very familiar with plenty of the debates Scorecasting is designed to explore. Do officials have biases? Do coaches make bad decisions to try to keep their jobs? Whither home field advantage? With wit, thoroughness, in-depth research and a few principles of economics, Wertheim and Moskowitz (a Sports Illustrated writer and an economist, respectively) tear into some of the most beloved and bemoaned phenomena in popular sports and put forward often counterintuitive but well-argued conclusions. If you want to hear the most clear-headed explanation you're likely to encounter of why teams should almost never punt on fourth down (and of why your team probably will anyway), this is the book that will tell you." NPR

Reading books like this help show me how education needs to be adapted. I hated math growing up. Had I realized how fractions, percentages and decimals worked in relation to something I was actually intrested in (SPORTS), perhaps I would have been motivated to learn more. I always like books that contravene some accepted practices. I'm going to watch NFL football a little differently now that I have read this book.

This was a lot of fun to listen to the authors try to debunk a lot of the standard sports "rules of thumb" and succeed with countless tons of statistics. I enjoyed the audio book a great deal, a little over the top for non sports geeks, but still a lot of fun to listen to.