Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations

Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations offers an introduction to this increasing area of interest to statisticians, students of the game, and many others. Pairing a primer on the applied math with an overview of the origin of the field and its context within baseball today, the work provides an engaging resource for students and interested readers. It includes coverage of relevant baseball history, Bill James and SABR, broken records and steroids. Drawing on the author's experience teaching the subject at Seton Hall University since 1988, Sabermetrics also offers practice questions and solutions for class use. Provides an accessible, brief introduction to the practice of sabermetrics Approaches the topic in context with recent trends and issues in baseball Includes questions and solutions for math practice INDICE: 1. An appreciation of baseball and its mathematics2. Is baseball still the national pastime?3. Baseball before steroids4. Bill James and the genesis of sabermetrics5. Rattling the sabermetrics6. The annihilation of records: Where have you gone, Babe Ruth?7. Steroids, etc.8. Scandal scarred: A discussion of our national pastime's controversial history9. The last inning10. Epilogue: Where have we been? Where do we go from here? A final word from the editor

• ISBN: 978-0-12-822345-1
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 10/01/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés