Curve Ball Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game
In its formative years, from the 1970s through the 1990s, sabermetrics was p- marily an amateur undertaking. Publications were aimed at a relatively small audience of baseball fans. To be sure, this ever-growing group of aficionados brought a lot of sophistication to baseball analysis, and were cons...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
2001, 2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2001 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Simple Models from Tabletop Baseball Games
- Exploring Baseball Data
- Introducing Probability
- Situational Effects
- Streakiness (or, The Hot Hand)
- Measuring Offensive Performance
- Average Runs per Play
- The Curvature of Baseball
- Making Sense of Baseball Strategy
- Measuring Clutch Play
- Prediction
- Did the Best Team Win?
- Postgame Comments (A Brief Afterword)