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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 796.357 EAN: 9781597971294 ISBN: 1597971294 Label: Potomac Books Inc. Manufacturer: Potomac Books Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: March 10, 2007 Publisher: Potomac Books Inc. Studio: Potomac Books Inc. Editorial Review: Product Description: Written by three esteemed baseball statisticians, The Book continues where the legendary Bill James’s 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Best math book on baseball ever.The authors of "The Book" reveal truths of baseball derived from careful statistical analysis. The clear explanations are such that any person who can understand percentages will gain insight from the book. The conclusions (and data upon which they are based) are truly amazing. I have never read a book on baseball in this league. Every angle of the game is analyzed objectively. While it is presented such that "non-math" people can understand it, there is enough meat to the analysis that substantiate ... Read More Rating: - Great BookIf you're truly interested in not only what's important in baseball, but how to decide if something is important (IOW, how to decide if someone's research was done properly), then you should read this book. The authors are highly respected researchers who have taken everyday baseball subjects and shown us what makes sense. I'm not sure which presumptions Larry below found untenable, nor why he found it difficult to read, but you shouldn't let that dissuade you from reading this truly innovative ... Read More Rating:  - I Just Don't Get the HypeI've been devouring sabermetrics, at least of the mass variety, since I first started reading Bill James in the 80s. The Number 1 thing I learned from Bill is to ask useful questions, then define the parameters, then do the research and find the conclusions. While "The Book" is set up to appear to follow that thread, the questions are stilted, the parameters are (mostly) asinine, and so the conclusions - although the research is fabulously thorough - are fatuous and irrelevant. It has taken me weeks to slog my ... Read More Rating:  - Authors Illuminate the Guts of Baseball This is the single most important math-centered analysis of baseball since The Hidden Game of Baseball came out over 20 years ago. I unreservedly recommend it for those already experienced with statistical analysis of baseball (the authors are much better at insight and explaining to the initiated than they are the Dick & Jane bits). They attack a sequence of important subjects, mostly around game-tactics and, by consequence, roster-construction with hard data. And they are aware of an important bit ... Read More Rating: - The best book of its kind - by far!Other sabermetric books have been written in the last few years, The Book is the best one by far. It is chock full of information, results from research and answers a lot of interesting baseball questions. The three authors, Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman and Andrew Dolphin have academic backgrounds and work for major league teams as employees or consultants. They use statistical methods to extract and comprehend information from a massive database of baseball games. For the layman, there may be too ... Read More |
