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Author: John Sickels Publisher: STATS Publishing ISBN: 9781884064463 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 310
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One of the only question and answer baseball annuals on the market today, STATS Baseball Scorecard takes a creative and insightful look into what makes baseball tick, with lively analysis of all the hot topics facing Major League Baseball today.
Author: John Sickels Publisher: STATS Publishing ISBN: 9781884064463 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 310
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One of the only question and answer baseball annuals on the market today, STATS Baseball Scorecard takes a creative and insightful look into what makes baseball tick, with lively analysis of all the hot topics facing Major League Baseball today.
Author: Herman O. Krabbenhoft Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476609195 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 425
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Every sport has its subtleties, and in baseball, one subtlety is the batting line-up. Leadoff batters can make or break a team. Who are the men who have taken that position, and how have they performed in their important role? From 1900 through 2005, the major leagues' leadoff batters for more than 160,000 games are covered in this reference work. The first of the book's five parts discusses the annual records of the principal leadoff batters. Part Two identifies the principal leadoff batter for each team in each year, as well as the top career leadoff batters. Part Three presents composite statistics for those players with five or more principal leadoff batter seasons. Part Four looks at leadoff home runs, and Part Five offers essays on assorted leadoff batter achievements, such as RBIs, runs scored, and awards and honors. Appended to the text is a discussion of the accuracy of the statistics and a list of "Make It Happen" award winners.
Author: Michael J. Schell Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400850630 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 320
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Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the conclusion of this engaging and provocative analysis of baseball's all-time best hitters. Michael Schell challenges the traditional list of all-time hitters, which places Ty Cobb first, Gwynn 16th, and includes just 8 players whose prime came after 1960. Schell argues that the raw batting averages used as the list's basis should be adjusted to take into account that hitters played in different eras, with different rules, and in different ballparks. He makes those adjustments and produces a new list of the best 100 hitters that will spark debate among baseball fans and statisticians everywhere. Schell combines the two qualifications essential for a book like this. He is a professional statistician--applying his skills to cancer research--and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball. He has wondered how to rank hitters since he was a boy growing up as a passionate Cincinnati Reds fan. Over the years, he has analyzed the most important factors, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool that players are drawn from, and changes in the game that raised or lowered major-league batting averages (the introduction of the designated hitter and changes in the height and location of the pitcher's mound, for example). Schell's study finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. His final ranking of players differs dramatically from the traditional list. Gwynn, for example, bumps Cobb to 2nd place, Rod Carew rises from 28th to 3rd, Babe Ruth drops from 9th to 16th, and Willie Mays comes from off the list to rank 13th. Schell's list also gives relatively more credit to modern players, containing 39 whose best days were after 1960. Using a fun, conversational style, the book presents a feast of stories and statistics about players, ballparks, and teams--all arranged so that calculations can be skipped by general readers but consulted by statisticians eager to follow Schell's methods or introduce their students to such basic concepts as mean, histogram, standard deviation, p-value, and regression. Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters will shake up how baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime.
Author: John Dewan Publisher: STATS Publishing ISBN: 9781884064623 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 358
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STATS Baseball Scoreboard probes deep into the national pastime to make sense of who's winning and who's not. Now in its 10th annual edition, the Baseball Scoreboard offers more insightful, colorful and creative articles than ever before. The book's unique essays are your ticket to understanding and enjoying the many facets of today's game. You'll find the answers to baseball's hottest questions. Who gets the easy saves? Who hits the longest HRs? Which records are in danger of being broken? The book's easy-to-understand charts and graphs accompany the data and analysis. The results will make readers baseball-smart!
Author: Stats Publishing Publisher: STATS Publishing ISBN: 9781884064425 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 378
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Now in its ninth year, Bill James's legendary "Handbook" offers everything the true baseball fan wants and needs, including complete career pitching and hitting stats for every 1997 player, managerial performances and tendencies, and more.
Author: Bob Kendrick Publisher: ISBN: 9781970159639 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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SABR and MLB recently concluded that the Negro Leagues were "major leagues." This volume tells how the lost history and statistical record of the Negro Leagues were rebuilt and serves as an introduction to Negro League history as a whole.
Author: Jim Albert Publisher: American Mathematical Society ISBN: 1470469383 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 257
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Teaching Statistics Using Baseball is a collection of case studies and exercises applying statistical and probabilistic thinking to the game of baseball. Baseball is the most statistical of all sports since players are identified and evaluated by their corresponding hitting and pitching statistics. There is an active effort by people in the baseball community to learn more about baseball performance and strategy by the use of statistics. This book illustrates basic methods of data analysis and probability models by means of baseball statistics collected on players and teams. Students often have difficulty learning statistics ideas since they are explained using examples that are foreign to the students. The idea of the book is to describe statistical thinking in a context (that is, baseball) that will be familiar and interesting to students. The book is organized using a same structure as most introductory statistics texts. There are chapters on the analysis on a single batch of data, followed with chapters on comparing batches of data and relationships. There are chapters on probability models and on statistical inference. The book can be used as the framework for a one-semester introductory statistics class focused on baseball or sports. This type of class has been taught at Bowling Green State University. It may be very suitable for a statistics class for students with sports-related majors, such as sports management or sports medicine. Alternately, the book can be used as a resource for instructors who wish to infuse their present course in probability or statistics with applications from baseball. The second edition of Teaching Statistics follows the same structure as the first edition, where the case studies and exercises have been replaced by modern players and teams, and the new types of baseball data from the PitchFX system and fangraphs.com are incorporated into the text.
Author: Jim Albert Publisher: SIAM ISBN: 0898715873 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 298
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Sport and statistics collide in this collection of articles (from American Statistical Association publications) on using statistics to analyze sport. Most of the articles will be accessible to readers with a general knowledge of statistics. New material from the editors and other notable contributors introduces each section of the book.
Author: David P. Gerard Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786472561 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 270
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Gross Productivity Average, or GPA, is a new baseball statistic that measures performance. Accounting for the effect that each plate appearance or baserunning play has on scoring opportunities, it is reported on a scale similar to that for batting average, making it easy for the average fan to understand. Beginning with a detailed explanation of the statistic and its derivation, the book identifies, in Part II, historical patterns in league-average GPA (even the steroids effect is quantified). Practical applications are then explored, as GPA is used in Part III to settle long-running arguments about strategy and in Part IV to reassess players and awards voting from 1952 to 2012.
Author: John Sickels
Author: John Sickels
Author: Herman O. Krabbenhoft
Author: Michael J. Schell
Author: John Dewan
Author: Stats Publishing
Author: Bob Kendrick
Author: Jim Albert
Author: Jim Albert
Author: Bob Lemke
Author: David P. Gerard