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Laddar... Curve Ball : Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game (urspr publ 2001; utgåvan 2003)av Jim Albert (Författare), Jay Bennett (Författare)
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A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These include how to rate players, predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an achievement, making sense of situational data, and deciding the most valuable players in the World Series. Aimed at a general audience, the text does not assume any prior background in probability or statistics, although a knowledge of high school abgebra will be helpful. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Curve Ball is a look at sabermetrics by a pair of professional statisticians. It begins by discussing how statisticians view numbers and analysis, then moves to baseball's. The authors are apparently familiar with every important sabermetrician, including the commonly-cited sabermetric predecessors, and with many (perhaps all) professional statisticians who study baseball. Some of the book's chapters are overviews, while others examine specific topics.
The chapters I found most interesting were a series about modeling baseball offenses. On the whole, these guys give the leading sabermetricians good marks; in particular, Bill James' Runs Created and Pete Palmer's Linear Weights are given high accolades.
The book's enjoyable if you've some background in academic statistics, but it's likely difficult reading if you've not encountered that notation and vocabulary. I worked my way through the discussions, but was rummaging through four-decade-old memories from time to time. It's certainly an essential book if you're seriously interested in serious baseball analysis.
This review has also been published on a dabbler's journal. ( )