Law, Keith
Smart Baseball
- ISBN 13:
- 9780062490230
- author:
- Law, Keith
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- William Morrow & Company
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 320
- Dimensions:
- 20.07 x 13.46 x 2.03 centimetres
- Genre:
- Sports & Recreation, Baseball, Statistics,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 7 working days
Description
Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball by Keith Law. For decades, statistics such as batting average, saves recorded, and pitching won-lost records have been used to measure individual players' and teams' potential and success in baseball. However, a revolutionary new standard of measurement, sabermetrics, has emerged in recent years, challenging traditional methods. In this book, Keith Law explores the numbers game of baseball, revealing why some trusted stats are surprisingly wrong and explaining what numbers actually work. Law examines the rise of Big Data and its impact on the sport, demystifying sabermetrics and showing how it's vital to understanding baseball today. With concrete examples from different eras of baseball history, logic, and lively commentary, Law makes a compelling case against the long-established view that baseball should be run by people, not by numbers.
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