"Baseball Hacks" isn't your typical baseball book - it's a book
about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an
instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook
for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach
baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book -
one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So
much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting
statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance
in statistical categories that ownership deems most important.
Managers make in-game decisions based not on instincts, but on
probability - how a particular batter might fare against
left-handed pitching, for instance. The goal of this unique book is
to show fans all the baseball-related stuff that they can do for
free (or close to free). Just as open source projects have made
great software freely available, collaborative projects, such as
Retrosheet and Baseball DataBank have made great data freely
available. You can use these data sources to research your
favourite players, win your fantasy league, or appreciate the game
of baseball even more than you do now. "Baseball Hacks" shows how
easy it is to get data, process it, and use it to truly understand
baseball. The book lists a number of sources for current and
historical baseball data, and explains how to load it into a
database for analysis. It then introduces several powerful
statistical tools for understanding data and forecasting results.
For the uninitiated baseball fan, author, Joseph Adler walks
readers through the core statistical categories for hitters
(batting average, on-base percentage, etc.), pitchers (earned run
average, strikeout-to-walk ratio, etc.), and fielders (putouts,
errors, etc.). He then extrapolates upon these numbers to examine
more advanced data groups like career averages, team stats,
season-by-season comparisons, and more. Whether you're a
mathematician, scientist, or season-ticket holder to your favourite
team, "Baseball Hacks" is sure to have something for you. Advance
praise for "Baseball Hacks": ""Baseball Hacks" is the best book
ever written for understanding and practicing baseball analytics. A
must-read for baseball professionals and enthusiasts alike." - Ari
Kaplan, database consultant to the Montreal Expos, San Diego
Padres, and Baltimore Orioles. "The game was born in the 19th
century, but the passion for its analysis continues to grow into
the 21st. In "Baseball Hacks", Joe Adler not only demonstrates that
the latest data-mining technologies have useful application to the
study of baseball statistics, he also teaches the reader how to do
the analysis himself, arming the dedicated baseball fan with tools
to take his understanding of the game to a higher level." - Mark E.
Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, SportMetrika, Inc. and Baseball Analyst
for the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals.
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