Bibframe Work

Title

Understanding sabermetrics

Type

Text

Monograph

Contribution

Costa, Gabriel B. (author)

Huber, Michael R., 1960- (contributor)

Saccoman, John T., 1964- (contributor)

Subject

Baseball--Statistical methods (LCSH)

Baseball--Mathematical models (LCSH)

Language

English (eng)

Illustrative Content

illustrations

Classification

LCC: GV867 .C67 2008 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

DDC: 796.357 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 22)

Supplementary Content

bibliography (bibliography)

index (index)

Content

text (txt)

Summary

"Numbers and baseball go together like America and apple pie. Sabermetrics, defined as the "search for objective knowledge about baseball" and "the mathematical and statistical analysis of baseball records" by noted author Bill James who coined the term, has become perhaps the most important baseball evaluation tool available to researchers. This book is a Sabermetrics primer"--Provided by publisher.

Table Of Contents

Simple additive formulas

Peak versus career performance

The equivalence coefficient

The linear weights school: offense

The linear weights school: pitching and defense

The runs-created school

Win shares

Park effects

Creating measures and doing sabermetrics: some examples.

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