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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 favorite 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 favorite 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
# Paperback: 448 pages
# Publisher:
O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (February 1, 2006)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0596009429
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ISBN-13: 978-0596009427
# Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.2 inches
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