Baseball Hacks
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-0-596-00942-7 (ISBN)
"Baseball Hacks" isn't your typical baseball book - it's a book about how to watch, research, and understand baseball. It's an instruction manual for the free baseball databases. It's a cookbook for baseball research. Every part of this book is designed to teach baseball fans how to do something. In short, it's a how-to book - one that will increase your enjoyment and knowledge of the game. So much of the way baseball is played today hinges upon interpreting statistical data. Players are acquired based on their performance in statistical categories that ownership deems most important. Managers make in-game decisions based not on instincts, but on probability - how a particular batter might fare against left-handed pitching, for instance. The goal of this unique book is to show fans all the baseball-related stuff that they can do for free (or close to free). Just as open source projects have made great software freely available, collaborative projects, such as Retrosheet and Baseball DataBank have made great data freely available. You can use these data sources to research your favourite players, win your fantasy league, or appreciate the game of baseball even more than you do now.
"Baseball Hacks" shows how easy it is to get data, process it, and use it to truly understand baseball. The book lists a number of sources for current and historical baseball data, and explains how to load it into a database for analysis. It then introduces several powerful statistical tools for understanding data and forecasting results. For the uninitiated baseball fan, author, Joseph Adler walks readers through the core statistical categories for hitters (batting average, on-base percentage, etc.), pitchers (earned run average, strikeout-to-walk ratio, etc.), and fielders (putouts, errors, etc.). He then extrapolates upon these numbers to examine more advanced data groups like career averages, team stats, season-by-season comparisons, and more. Whether you're a mathematician, scientist, or season-ticket holder to your favourite team, "Baseball Hacks" is sure to have something for you. Advance praise for "Baseball Hacks": ""Baseball Hacks" is the best book ever written for understanding and practicing baseball analytics. A must-read for baseball professionals and enthusiasts alike." - Ari Kaplan, database consultant to the Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, and Baltimore Orioles.
"The game was born in the 19th century, but the passion for its analysis continues to grow into the 21st. In "Baseball Hacks", Joe Adler not only demonstrates that the latest data-mining technologies have useful application to the study of baseball statistics, he also teaches the reader how to do the analysis himself, arming the dedicated baseball fan with tools to take his understanding of the game to a higher level." - Mark E. Johnson, Ph.D., Founder, SportMetrika, Inc. and Baseball Analyst for the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals.
Joe Adler received both his undergraduate and master's degrees from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. After spending a few years as a management consultant doing risk analysis for banks and credit card companies, he now works as a researcher at Verisign, where he does data mining and statistical analysis work on hundreds of gigabytes of security, naming, and telecom data. When he's not doing statistics professionally, he spends hours every day watching baseball on television, following standings, and reading about baseball. As a hard-core fan, he can't help thinking about how to apply statistical thinking when watching baseball. If you suffer the same affliction and want to talk shop, send Joe email at baseballhacks@gmail.com.
Credits Preface Chapter 1. Basics of Baseball 1. Score a Baseball Game 2. Make a Box Score from a Score Sheet 3. Keep Score, Project Scoresheet-Style 4. Follow Pitches During a Game 5. Follow the Game Online 6. Add Baseball Searches to Firefox 7. Find Images of Stadiums Chapter 2. Baseball Games from Past Years 8. Get and Install MySQL 9. Get an Access Database of Player and Team Statistics 10. Get a MySQL Database of Player and Team Statistics 11. Make Your Own Stats Book 12. Get Perl 13. Learn Perl 14. Get Historical Play-by-Play Data 15. Make Box Scores or Database Tables from Play-by-Play Data with Retrosheet Tools 16. Use SQL to Explore Game Data 17. Use Microsoft Access to Run SQL Queries 18. Get a GUI for MySQL 19. Move Data from a Database to Excel 20. Load Baseball Data into MySQL 21. Load Retrosheet Game Logs 22. Make a Historical Play-by-Play Database 23. Use Regular Expressions to Identify Events Chapter 3. Stats from the Current Season 24. Use Microsoft Excel Web Queries to Get Stats 25. Spider Baseball Sites for Data 26. Discover How Live Score Applications Work 27. Keep Your Stats Database Up-to-Date 28. Get Recent Play-by-Play Data 29. Find Data on Hit Locations Chapter 4. Visualize Baseball Statistics 30. Plot Histograms in Excel 31. Get R and R Packages 32. Analyze Baseball with R 33. Access Databases Directly from Excel or R 34. Load Text Files into R 35. Compare Teams and Players with Lattices 36. Compare Teams Using Chernoff Faces 37. Plot Spray Charts 38. Chart Team Stats in Real Time 39. Slice and Dice Teams with Cubes Chapter 5. Formulas 40. Measure Batting with Batting Average 41. Measure Batting with On-Base Percentage 42. Measure Batting with SLG 43. Measure Batting with OPS 44. Measure Power with ISO 45. Measure Batting with Runs Created 46. Measure Batting with Linear Weights 47. Measure Pitching with ERA 48. Measure Pitching with WHIP 49. Measure Pitching with Linear Weights 50. Measure Defense with Defensive Efficiency 51. Measure Pitching with DIPS 52. Measure Base Running Through EqBR 53. Measure Fielding with Fielding Percentage 54. Measure Fielding with Range Factor 55. Measure Fielding with Linear Weights 56. Measure Park Effects 57. Calculate Fan Save Value 58. Calculate Save Value 59. Calculate Holds and Decent Holds for Relief Pitchers Chapter 6. Sabermetric Thinking 60. Calculate Expected Runs 61. Calculate an Expected Hits Matrix 62. Look for Evidence of Platoon Effects 63. Significant Number of At Bats 64. Find "Clutch" Players 65. Calculate Expected Number of Wins 66. Measure Hits by Pitch Count 67. OBP, SLG, and Scoring Runs 68. Measure Skill Versus Luck 69. Odds of the Best Team Winning the World Series 70. Top 10 Bargain Outfielders 71. Fitting Game Scores to a Strength Model Chapter 7. The Bullpen 72. Start or Join a Fantasy League 73. Draft Your Fantasy Team 74. Make a Scoreboard Widget 75. Analyze Other Sports Appendix A. Where to Learn More Stuff Appendix B. Abbreviations Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.3.2006 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Hacks |
| Verlagsort | Sebastopol |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| ISBN-10 | 0-596-00942-9 / 0596009429 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-596-00942-7 / 9780596009427 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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