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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gabriel B Costa; Michael R Huber; John T Saccoman |
ISBN: | 9780786433889 0786433884 |
OCLC Number: | 176648876 |
Description: | xiv, 176 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Batting practice : introduction and statistics -- Infield practice : sabermetrical reasoning -- Inning 1: Simple additive formulas -- Inning 2: Peak versus career performance -- Inning 3: The equivalence coefficient -- Inning 4: The linear weights school : offense -- Inning 5: The linear weights school : pitching and defense -- Inning 6: The runs created school -- Inning 7: Win shares -- Seventh inning stretch : non sabermetrical factors -- Inning 8: Park effects -- Inning 9: Creating measures and doing sabermetrics : some examples -- Extra innings : beyond sabermetrics. |
Responsibility: | Gabriel B. Costa, Michael R. Huber and John T. Saccoman. |
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Abstract:
Offering an introduction to the basics of sabermetric analysis, this book explains concepts, including normalization, peak versus career performance, linear weights and runs created, as well as popular calculations like OPS, WHIP, PF and others increasingly used by baseball fans.
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