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| Credits | |
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| Preface | |
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| Basics of Baseball | |
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| Score a Baseball Game | |
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| Make a Box Score from a Score Sheet | |
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| Keep Score, Project Scoresheet-Style | |
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| Follow Pitches During a Game | |
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| Follow the Game Online | |
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| Add Baseball Searches to Firefox | |
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| Find Images of Stadiums | |
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| Baseball Games from Past Years | |
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| Get and Install MySQL | |
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| Get an Access Database of Player and Team Statistics | |
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| Get a MySQL Database of Player and Team Statistics | |
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| Make Your Own Stats Book | |
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| Get Perl | |
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| Learn Perl | |
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| Get Historical Play-by-Play Data | |
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| Make Box Scores or Database Tables from Play-by-Play Data with Retrosheet Tools | |
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| Use SQL to Explore Game Data | |
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| Use Microsoft Access to Run SQL Queries | |
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| Get a GUI for MySQL | |
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| Move Data from a Database to Excel | |
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| Load Baseball Data into MySQL | |
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| Load Retrosheet Game Logs | |
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| Make a Historical Play-by-Play Database | |
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| Use Regular Expressions to Identify Events | |
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| Stats from the Current Season | |
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| Use Microsoft Excel Web Queries to Get Stats | |
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| Spider Baseball Sites for Data | |
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| Discover How Live Score Applications Work | |
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| Keep Your Stats Database Up-to-Date | |
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| Get Recent Play-by-Play Data | |
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| Find Data on Hit Locations | |
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| Visualize Baseball Statistics | |
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| Plot Histograms in Excel | |
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| Get R and R Packages | |
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| Analyze Baseball with R | |
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| Access Databases Directly from Excel or R | |
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| Load Text Files into R | |
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| Compare Teams and Players with Lattices | |
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| Compare Teams Using Chernoff Faces | |
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| Plot Spray Charts | |
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| Chart Team Stats in Real Time | |
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| Slice and Dice Teams with Cubes | |
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| Formulas | |
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| Measure Batting with Batting Average | |
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| Measure Batting with On-Base Percentage | |
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| Measure Batting with SLG | |
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| Measure Batting with OPS | |
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| Measure Power with ISO | |
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| Measure Batting with Runs Created | |
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| Measure Batting with Linear Weights | |
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| Measure Pitching with ERA | |
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| Measure Pitching with WHIP | |
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| Measure Pitching with Linear Weights | |
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| Measure Defense with Defensive Efficiency | |
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| Measure Pitching with DIPS | |
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| Measure Base Running Through EqBR | |
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| Measure Fielding with Fielding Percentage | |
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| Measure Fielding with Range Factor | |
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| Measure Fielding with Linear Weights | |
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| Measure Park Effects | |
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| Calculate Fan Save Value | |
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| Calculate Save Value | |
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| Calculate Holds and Decent Holds for Relief Pitchers | |
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| Sabermetric Thinking | |
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| Calculate Expected Runs | |
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| Calculate an Expected Hits Matrix | |
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| Look for Evidence of Platoon Effects | |
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| Significant Number of At Bats | |
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| Find "Clutch" Players | |
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| Calculate Expected Number of Wins | |
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| Measure Hits by Pitch Count | |
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| OBP, SLG, and Scoring Runs | |
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| Measure Skill Versus Luck | |
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| Odds of the Best Team Winning the World Series | |
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| Top 10 Bargain Outfielders | |
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| Fitting Game Scores to a Strength Model | |
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| The Bullpen | |
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| Start or Join a Fantasy League | |
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| Draft Your Fantasy Team | |
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| Make a Scoreboard Widget | |
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| Analyze Other Sports | |
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| Where to Learn More Stuff | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Index | |