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The Beauty of Short Hops - How Chance Confounds the Statistical Study of Baseball (Paperback) Loot Price: R678
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The Beauty of Short Hops - How Chance Confounds the Statistical Study of Baseball (Paperback): Sheldon Hirsch, Alan Hirsch

The Beauty of Short Hops - How Chance Confounds the Statistical Study of Baseball (Paperback)

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.

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Imprint: McFarland & Company
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2011
First published: March 2011
Authors: Sheldon Hirsch • Alan Hirsch
Dimensions: 226 x 150 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 978-0-7864-6288-9
Categories: Books
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LSN: 0-7864-6288-4
Barcode: 9780786462889

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