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Honest take, because I wish someone had told me this earlier.
Everything you will read about baseball will make it sound more complicated than it is. Here is what 8 years of working with scoring has actually taught me.
The people who struggle most are the ones who overthink the entry point.
What actually moved the needle for me: I stopped trying to understand everything before starting, and just committed to finding one person who had already done it and asking specific questions. After that, improved my time by 12 seconds.
The one thing I would prioritise: find a concrete real-world use case for baseball in your own life or work.
The learning curve is real but it is not as steep as it looks from the outside.
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