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 7 years of working with scoring has actually taught me.
The most common trap is spending too long on research instead of doing.
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, made the varsity team after 8 months.
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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