| #2227869 in Books | 2003-03-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.90 x5.90l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 432 pages||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| THE GENESIS OF BASEBALL ANALYTICS!|By James Braswell|This book is a reprinting of the first book on baseball metrics. It was so revolutionary, and it's concepts so radical, John Deford wrote a fine article about this book in 1966 for Sports Illustrated. The mathematics is over my head, but Mr. Cook has an engaging writing style which is non academic and highly thought provoking|||Earnshaw Cook knows more about baseball than anyone else in the world... baseball officials hesitate to consider his findings, and for a very good reason: if he is right, they have been playing the game all wrong for years. (Frank Deford, Sports Illustra
As a result of a lunchtime conversation with Professor Wendell Garner concerning the productiveness of the sacrifice bunt, Earnshaw Cook took on the three-year task of presenting a formal analysis of baseball. His analysis, explained in terms perfectly clear to anyone with college freshman level mathematics, suggests that no one has ever known the true percentages, and if anyone did know them he could manage almost any team into the top ranks of major league baseball....
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Percentage Baseball (MIT Press) | Earnshaw Cook. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
