Visualizing Baseball provides a visual exploration of the game of
baseball. Graphical displays are used to show how measures of
performance, at the team level and the individual level, have
changed over the history of baseball. Graphs of career trajectories
are helpful for understanding the rise and fall of individual
performances of hitters and pitchers over time. One can measure the
contribution of plays by the notion of runs expectancy. Graphs of
runs expectancy are useful for understanding the importance of the
game situation defined by the runners on base and number of outs.
Also the runs measure can be used to quantify hitter and pitch
counts and the win probabilities can be used to define the exciting
plays during a baseball game. Special graphs are used to describe
pitch data from the PitchFX system and batted ball data from the
Statcast system. One can explore patterns of streaky performance
and clutch play by the use of graphs, and special plots are used to
predict final season batting averages based on data from the middle
of the season. This book was written for several types of readers.
Many baseball fans should be interested in the topics of the
chapters, especially those who are interested in learning more
about the quantitative side of baseball. Many statistical ideas are
illustrated and so the graphs and accompanying insights can help in
promoting statistical literacy at many levels. From a
practitioner's perspective, the chapters offer many illustrations
of the use of a modern graphics system and R scripts are available
on an accompanying website to reproduce and potentially improve the
graphs in this book.
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