Smart baseball : the story behind the old stats that are ruining the game, the new ones that are running it, and the right way to think about baseball / Keith Law.

Law, Keith, 1973- author.

Record details

ISBN: 0062490257
ISBN: 9780062490254
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrations.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Copyright: ©2017
Note: Includes index.
Formatted Contents: Smrt baseball. Below average : the fundamental flaw of batting average ; Pitcher wins : one guy gets the credit for everyone else's work ; RBI : baseball's unreliable narrator ; Holtzman's folly : how the save rule has ruined baseball ; Stolen bases : crime only pays if you never get caught ; Fielding percentage : the absolute worst way to measure defense ; Bulfinch's baseball mythology : clutch hitters, lineup protection, and other things that don't exist -- Smart baseball. OBP is life : why on-base percentage is the measure of a hitter ; The power and the glory : slugging percentage and OPS ; wOBA/WRC : the ultimate measure of the hitter (until the next one) ; ERA and the riddle of pitching versus defense ; WPA : measuring clutch, if you must ; The black box : how baseball teams measure defense today ; No puns intended : going to WAR to value the whole player -- Smarter baseball. Applied math : looking at Hall of Fame elections using newer stats ; No trouble with the curve : how scouting works, and how the statistical revolution is changing it ; The next big thing is here, the revolution's near : MLB statcast ; The edge of tomorrow : where the future of stats might take us.
Source of Description, Etc.: Print version record.