Curve Ball Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Albert, Jim (Editor), Bennett, Jay (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Science.; Sports.; Probabilities.; Mathematics.; Statistics.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Mathematics.; Sport.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Popular Science, general.; Science, general.; Statistics, general.

In its formative years, from the 1970s through the 1990s, sabermetrics was p- marily an amateur undertaking. Publications were aimed at a relatively small audience of baseball fans. To be sure, this ever-growing group of aficionados brought a lot of sophistication to baseball analysis, and were cons...

Table of Contents:

• Simple Models from Tabletop Baseball Games
• Exploring Baseball Data
• Introducing Probability
• Situational Effects
• Streakiness (or, The Hot Hand)
• Measuring Offensive Performance
• Average Runs per Play
• The Curvature of Baseball
• Making Sense of Baseball Strategy
• Measuring Clutch Play
• Prediction
• Did the Best Team Win?
• Postgame Comments (A Brief Afterword).