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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball (2007)di Tom M. Tango, Andrew E. Dolphin, Mitchel G. Lichtman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Although a bit dated with most of its research covering the increased run scoring environment of the steroid era, this is an interesting study of baseball strategy that will appeal to most sabrmetrically inclined baseball fans. Many baseball managers claim to manage "by the book" when they make decisions according to what conventional wisdom dictates. Tango, Lichtman and Dolphin have done the research to show what decisions they should actually make and in what percentages. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James' Baseball Abstracts and Palmer and Thorn's The Hidden Game of Baseball left off more than twenty years ago. Continuing in the grand tradition of sabermetrics, the authors provide a revolutionary way to think about baseball with principles that can be applied at every level, from high school to the major leagues. Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, and Andrew Dolphin cover topics such as batting and pitching matchups, platooning, the benefits and risks of intentional walks and sacrifices, the legitimacy of alleged clutch hitters, and many of baseball's other theories on hitting, fielding, pitching, and even baserunning. They analyze when a strategy is a good idea and when it's a bad idea, and how to more closely watch the inside game of baseball. Whenever you hear an announcer talk about the unwritten rule or say that so-and-so is going by the book in bringing in a situational substitute, The Book reviews the facts and determines what the real case is. If you want to know what the folks in baseball should be doing, find out in The Book. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Liked it better on first read, perhaps because it's clear that baseball's management has acted on this analysis and I don't much like the results. Downgraded my rating accordingly.
A very technical book on more than one level--it's heavy on both math/statistics (real statistical analysis), and there's a lot of discussion of strategic and tactical baseball (lineup construction, pitch selection, pitcher usage, situational analysis, and such-like).
It seems fair to point out that some of the analysis parallel's Earnshaw Cook's in Percentage Baseball. I suppose you could anticipate that, actually.
I *really* recommend reading a paper copy. The tables in the Kindle version are essentially unreadable. ( )