The past 30 years have seen an explosion in the number and variety of baseball books and articles. Following the lead of pioneers Bill James, John Thorn, and Pete Palmer, researchers have steadily challenged the ways we think about player and team performance--and along the way revised what we thought we knew of baseball history. This book by the authors of Understanding Sabermetrics (2008) goes beyond the explanation of new statistics to demonstrate their use in solving some of the more familiar problems of baseball research, such as how to compare players across generations; how to account for the effects of ballparks and rules changes; and how to measure the effectiveness of the sacrifice bunt or the range of the Gold Glove-winning shortstop.
Author(s): Gabriel B Costa
Publisher: McFarland
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 241
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. What Is Sabermetrics and What Does It Do?......Page 14
2. Traditional Offensive Statistics......Page 20
3. Traditional Defensive Statistics......Page 29
4. Relativity and Normalization......Page 38
5. Park Factors......Page 46
6. Runs Created......Page 55
7. Win Shares......Page 63
8. Linear Weights Batting Runs......Page 73
9. Linear Weights Pitching Runs......Page 84
10. Linear Weights Fielding and Base-Stealing Runs......Page 94
11. WHIP and Similar Statistics......Page 103
12. Weighted Pitcher’s Rating......Page 110
13. Base-Out Percentage and Total Average......Page 119
14. OPS, POP and the SLOB......Page 128
15. Total Power Quotient......Page 137
16. Isolated Power, Power Factor and Power Average......Page 146
17. Power-Speed Number......Page 155
18. Range Factor......Page 163
19. Hoban Effectiveness Quotient......Page 172
20. Equivalence Coefficient......Page 181
21. Predicting with the Use of Regression......Page 188
22. Higher Mathematics Used in Sabermetrics......Page 197
23. Potpourri......Page 206
Appendix A......Page 212
Appendix B......Page 217
Appendix C......Page 223
Appendix D......Page 232
Sources......Page 234
About the Authors......Page 236
Index......Page 238
