Beauty of Short Hops How Chance Confounds the Statistical Study of Baseball

Name: Beauty of Short Hops How Chance Confounds the Statistical Study of Baseball
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ISBN: 9780786462889

ISBN-10: 0786462884

ISBN-13: 9780786462889

Edition: 2011

Authors: Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch

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Sabermetrics, which evaluates baseball through largely objective methods involving statistics, has taken over the sport in recent years. This critical text exposes the fatal flaws of sabermetrics, demonstrating how it fails on its own terms, as it cannot evaluate baseball in terms of social science and offers only limited guidance for assembling a team and managing games. Drawing on examples from baseball past and present, and taking particular note of odd plays and personalities, baseball is presented and examined as a compelling and vibrant sport--a vision that has been blocked by the obsession with numbers ushered in by sabermetrics.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 3/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English