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Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
The Baseball Prospectus Team Of Experts
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Description for Baseball Between the Numbers: Why Everything You Know About the Game Is Wrong
Paperback. For baseball fans young, old, and in between, the ultimate guide to the new statistical thinking that's revolutionizing the game Num Pages: 528 pages, Charts & graphs. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 644.
In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of ... Read more
In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Basic Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780465005475
SKU
V9780465005475
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About The Baseball Prospectus Team Of Experts
Baseball Prospectus is the top statistical web site in baseball and is extensively used, in print and on air, by a wide range of major broadcasters, magazines, and daily newspapers that cover Major League Baseball.
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