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The MVP machine : how baseball's new nonconformists are using data to build better players /

"[T]he Moneyball era is over. Fifteen years after Michael Lewis brought the Oakland Athletics' groundbreaking team-building strategies to light, every front office takes a data-driven approach to evaluating players, and the league's smarter teams no longer have a huge advantage in val...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lindbergh, Ben (Author), Sawchik, Travis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Baseball > United States.
Baseball players > United States.
Baseball teams > United States.
Baseball > Statistical methods.
Baseball > Mathematical models.
Table of Contents:
  • Saviormetrics
  • A natural maniac, an unnatural athlete
  • Making mules into racehorses
  • First principles
  • A bottom-up revolution
  • The 10,000-pitch rule
  • The conduit
  • Perfect pitch
  • We're all astronauts
  • SpinGate
  • Amateur ball
  • The all-star player-coach
  • Performance-enhancing data
  • Just be better
  • Soft factors
  • If you build them, they will come
  • No ceiling.