Curve ball : baseball, statistics, and the role of chance in the game
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Curve ball : baseball, statistics, and the role of chance in the game
Copernicus Books, c2001
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Introduction
- Ch01: Simple Models from Tabletop Baseball Games
- Ch02: Exploring Baseball Data
- Ch03: Introducing Probability
- Ch04: Situational Effects
- Ch05: Streakiness (Or, The Hot Hand)
- Ch06: Measuring Offensive Performance
- Ch07: Average Runs per Play
- Ch08: The Curvature of Baseball
- Ch09: Making Sense of Baseball Strategy
- Ch10: Measuring Clutch Play
- Ch11: Prediction
- Ch12: Did the Best Team Win?
- Ch13: Post-Game Comments (A Brief Afterword)
- Appendix: Baseball Games
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
