Smart baseball : the story behind the old stats that are ruining the game, the new ones that are running it, and the right way to think about baseball /
For decades, statistics such as batting average, saves recorded and pitching won-lost records have been used to measure individual players' and teams' potential and success. But in the past fifteen years, a revolutionary new standard of measurement, sabermetrics, has been embraced by front...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Smrt baseball
- Below average : the fundamental flaws of batting average
- Pitcher wins : one guy gets the credit for everyone else's work
- RBI : baseball's unreliable narrator
- Holtzman's folly : how the save rule has ruined baseball
- Stolen bases : crime only pays if you never get caught
- Fielding percentage : the absolute worst way to measure defense
- Bulfinch's baseball mythology : clutch hitters, lineup protection, and other things that don't exist
- Part two. Smart baseball
- OBP is life : why on-base percentage is the measure of a hitter
- The power and the glory : slugging percentage and OPS
- wOBA/WRC : the ultimate measure of the hitter (until the next one)
- ERA and the riddle of pitching versus defense
- WPA : measuring clutch, if you must
- The black box : how baseball teams measure defense today
- No puns intended : going to WAR to value the whole player
- Part three. Smarter baseball
- Applied math : looking at Hall of Fame elections using newer stats
- No trouble with the curve : how scouting works, and how the statistical revolution is changing it
- The next big thing is here, the revolution's near : MLB statcast
- The edge of tomorrow : where the future of stats might take us.