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May 12, 2020 · This book contains descriptions of many advanced baseball statistics. Many of these statistics were not familiar to me. They were explained in easy to understand and entertaining language. The descriptions were not overly mathematical and examples of numerical calculations were given.
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- Sports Publishing
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- Anthony Castrovince
Feb 13, 2024 · In “The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball,” authors Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin delve into the world of advanced baseball statistics. This book is a must-have for any serious baseball fan or player looking to get ahead in the game.
May 12, 2020 · This book contains descriptions of many advanced baseball statistics. Many of these statistics were not familiar to me. They were explained in easy to understand and entertaining language. The descriptions were not overly mathematical and examples of numerical calculations were given.
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- Sports Publishing
- $22.76
- Anthony Castrovince
This book does a great job introducing the advanced statistics and does so in a very accessible way. Some of the articles are out of date, but the core message of them still stands, there are better ways to quantify performance on the field rather than just the traditional stats you see in the boxscores or flashed on your television screen.
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- Basic Books
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- Jonah Keri, Baseball Prospectus
May 12, 2020 · This book contains descriptions of many advanced baseball statistics. Many of these statistics were not familiar to me. They were explained in easy to understand and entertaining language. The descriptions were not overly mathematical and examples of numerical calculations were given.
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- Anthony Castrovince
Sabermetrics is the statistical analysis of baseball. It was developed in the late 1970s by Bill James, a baseball fan who wanted to better understand player performance. Sabermetrics can also be referred to broadly as “analytics” or “advanced statistics, and they look beyond traditional stats like batting average and home runs to measure ...
These statistics are the future of modern baseball, and no fan should be in the dark about how these metrics apply to the game.In the last twenty years, an avalanche of analytics has taken over the way the game is played, managed, and assessed, but the statistics that drive the sport (metrics like wRC+, FIP, and WAR, just to name a few) read like alphabet soup to a large number of fans who ...
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