| Baseball by the Numbers: How Statistics Are Collected, What They Mean, and How They Reveal the Game Contributor(s): Runquist, Willie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786400064 ISBN-13: 9780786400065 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1995 Annotation: Perhaps no other sport in the world relies as heavily on the use of statistics as does baseball. From the boardroom to the playing field, statistics play an extremely important role in deciding everything from players' salaries and chances at future employment to whom to put up to bat in the top of the fifth inning with one out and a man on first base. Provided in this volume are critical analyses of both the traditional (batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, fielding, earned run average) and many of the newer nontraditional (linear weights, runs created, production index, isolated power, park factors) statistics used to measure players' production. Particular attention is given to the reliability and validity of individual measurements and an evaluation of situational statistics. The author also provides detailed examples of how statisticians compute many of the averages. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - Statistics |
| Dewey: 796.357 |
| LCCN: 94-8901 |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.93" W x 8.91" (0.60 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is for you--The SABR Bulletin; pleasantly surprising--Dugout. Critical analyses are provided of both the traditional and many of the newer nontraditional (linear weights, production index, etc.) statistics used to measure players' production. Attention is given to the reliability and validity of individual measurements and an evaluation of situational statistics. |