Sabermetrics : Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations /

Sabermetrics : Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations /

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Author / Creator:Costa, Gabriel B., author.
Imprint:London : Academic Press, 2022.
Description:1 online resource (224 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Baseball -- Statistical methods.
Baseball -- Mathematical models.
Baseball -- Mathematics.
Baseball -- Statistical methods.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12942374
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ISBN:9780128223468
0128223464
9780128223451
0128223456
Notes:Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
Summary:Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations offers an introduction to this increasing area of interest to statisticians, students of the game, and many others. Pairing a primer on the applied math with an overview of the origin of the field and its context within baseball today, the work provides an engaging resource for students and interested readers. It includes coverage of relevant baseball history, Bill James and SABR, broken records and steroids. Drawing on the author's experience teaching the subject at Seton Hall University since 1988, Sabermetrics also offers practice questions and solutions for class use.

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