Sabermetrics

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

Gabriel B. Costa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2022
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-822345-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Gabriel B. Costa is currently a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and is on the faculty at Seton Hall. And is an engineer. He holds many titles and fills them with distinction. He has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology. He has also co-authored another Academic Press book with Richard Bronson, Matrix Methods.

1. An appreciation of baseball and its mathematics
2. Is baseball still the national pastime?
3. Baseball before steroids
4. Bill James and the genesis of sabermetrics
5. Rattling the sabermetrics
6. The annihilation of records: Where have you gone, Babe Ruth?
7. Steroids, etc.
8. Scandal scarred: A discussion of our national pastime’s controversial history
9. The last inning
10. Epilogue: Where have we been? Where do we go from here? A final word from the editor

Erscheinungsdatum	08.12.2021
Zusatzinfo	Approx. 150 illustrations; Illustrations
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	250 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-12-822345-6 / 0128223456
ISBN-13	978-0-12-822345-1 / 9780128223451
Zustand	Neuware