Full Description
The past 30 years have seen an explosion in the number and variety of baseball books and articles. Following the lead of pioneers Bill James, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer, researchers have steadily challenged the ways we think about player and team performance--and along the way revised what we thought we knew of baseball history.
This book by the authors of Understanding Sabermetrics (2008) goes beyond the explanation of new statistics to demonstrate their use in solving some of the more familiar problems of baseball research, such as how to compare players across generations; how to account for the effects of ballparks and rules changes; and how to measure the effectiveness of the sacrifice bunt or the range of the Gold Glove-winning shortstop.
Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
1. What Is Sabermetrics and What Does It Do?
2. Traditional Offensive Statistics: Hitting and Base-Stealing
3. Traditional Defensive Statistics: Pitching and Fielding
4. Relativity and Normalization
5. Park Factors
6. Runs Created
7. Win Shares
8. Linear Weights Batting Runs
9. Linear Weights Pitching Runs
10. Linear Weights Fielding and Base-Stealing Runs
11. WHIP and Similar Statistics
12. Weighted Pitcher's Rating
13. Base-Out Percentage and Total Average
14. OPS, POP and the SLOB
15. Total Power Quotient
16. Isolated Power, Power Factor and Power Average
17. Power-Speed Number
18. Range Factor
19. Hoban Effectiveness Quotient
20. Equivalence Coefficient
21. Predicting with the Use of Regression
22. Higher Mathematics Used in Sabermetrics
23. Potpourri
Appendix A: Abbreviations and Formulas
Appendix B: League Traditional Statistics and ABF Values
Appendix C: Technological Notes
Appendix D: Sabermetrics in the Classroom
Sources
About the Authors
Index
