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Author Baumer, Benjamin.

Title The sabermetric revolution : assessing the growth of analytics in baseball / Benjamin Baumer and Andrew Zimbalist.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  796.357 BAUMER    Check Shelf
Edition First edition
Description xii, 187 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-177) and index.
Contents Revisiting Moneyball -- The growth and application of baseball analytics today -- An overview of current sabermetric thought I: Offense -- An overview of current sabermetric thought II: Defense, WAR, and strategy -- The Moneyball diaspora -- Analytics and the business of baseball -- Estimating the impact of sabermetrics -- Appendix: The expected run matrix -- Modeling the effectiveness of sabermetric statistics -- Modeling the shifting inefficiencies in MLB labor markets.
Summary Explores the history of statistical analysis in baseball, how it can best be used today, and how it must evolve for the future.
Subject Baseball -- Statistical methods.
Baseball -- Mathematical models.
Added Author Zimbalist, Andrew S.
ISBN 9780812245721 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812245725 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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