Download or read book The Fielding Bible Volume III written by John Dewan and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously available exclusively to Major League Baseball teams, John Dewan and Baseball Info Solutions reveal their revolutionary approach to fielding analysis. In the process, they will completely change the entire perception of fielding statistics in Major League Baseball. Key reports include: 1) Defensive Runs Saved this stat distills the latest in defensive research into a single number for every defender. 2) Total Runs a combination of Runs Created, Baserunning Runs, and Defensive Runs Saved determines an overall value for every player. 3)A pioneering essay by Bill James detailing his revolutionary Misplays/Good Plays way to measure defensive abilities. 4)Defensive scouting reports and player commentaries on every regular and semiregular position player in baseball. 5) Innovative analysis of Catcher Defense, with catcher ERA taken to the next level.
Download or read book The Fielding Bible written by John Dewan Jedlovec and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fielding Bible--Volume III is a thorough compilation of the latest breakthroughs in defensive analytics from Baseball Info Solutions. With information previously exclusive to major league teams, Volume III is 100% new material that builds on the well received Volumes I and II. Included are comprehensive defensive evaluations, a study on the effectiveness of the "Ted Williams shift", the new Timer Plus/Minus system, and updated Defensive Runs Saved numbers that estimate the value of each fielder in Major League Baseball. The Fielding Bible--Volume III will include: Defensive Runs Saved-- the most comprehensive defensive evaluations are back and better than ever, with significant enhancements to the eight-component system first introduced in Volume II. Timer Plus/Minus--the revolutionary Plus/Minus system, which measures each fielder's ability to turn batted balls into outs, gets a facelift to incorporate the brand new battedball timer information, creating the most objective fielding evaluations ever. Good Play/Misplay Runs Saved--turns Bill James' in-depth Good Fielding Plays and Defensive Misplays system into a new component of Defensive Runs Saved, adding previously-unrecorded aspects of defense like scooped throws and pitch blocks. Total Runs--adding Pitching Runs Created to offensive, defensive, and baserunning ratings to combine every aspect of the game into one tell-all number for every player The latest essay from Bill James on defense. Defensive scouting reports and player commentaries on every regular and semi-regular position player in baseball. New studies on crucial aspects of fielding, including defensive positioning, the "Ted Williams shift", bunts, double plays, outfielder arms and catcher defense.
Download or read book The Fielding Bible Volume V written by John Dewan and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new, completely updated edition of the "bible" on baseball defense.
Download or read book The Fielding Bible IV Break Through Analysis of Major League Baseball Defense by Team and Player written by John Dewan and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIELDING BIBLE VOLUME IV contains the latest defensive research, analytics, and data from Baseball Info Solutions. Much of that research had previously been reserved exclusively for MLB teams, and it is all updated with all the defensive stats through the end of the 2014 season.
Download or read book The Fielding Bible written by John Dewan and published by . This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously available exclusively to Major League Baseball teams, John Dewan and Baseball Info Solutions reveal their revolutionary approach to fielding analysis. In the process, they will completely change the entire perception of fielding statistics in Major League Baseball.
Download or read book The Fielding Bible Volume II written by John Dewan and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously available exclusively to Major League Baseball teams, John Dewan and Baseball Info Solutions reveal their revolutionary approach to fielding analysis. In the process, they will completely change the entire perception of fielding statistics in Major League Baseball. Key reports include: Where Hits Landed; In-Depth Analysis by Position; Relative Range Factors; and Zone Ratings.
Download or read book The Fielding Bible 2008 written by John Dewan and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's easy to understand why fans love big hitters like Barry Bonds and Albert Pujols. It's also relatively easy to measure their success and hitters. A compre-hensive fielding analysis, by comparison, has never been available to the average fan. For the first time ever, that information is now contained in John Dewan's Fielding Bible 2008 ? a baseball insider's guide to fielding statistics, now available to the general public. Four primary reports include: ? Where Hits Landed ? allows a team to compare their defense point-by-point against other MLB teams ? Home/Road & Left/Right ? the number of hits at each hit location separated by games at home and on the road. The Left/Right reports break down the hit locations for left- and right-handed pitchers ? Double Plays ? analysis of double plays for every major league second baseman and shortstop ? In-Depth Analysis by Position ? organized by position and by team, a break down of how every MLB fielder performed against the average expected
Download or read book Paul One written by Duncan Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1972-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fielding Bible-Volume III is a thorough compilation of the latest breakthroughs in defensive analytics from Baseball Info Solutions. With information previously exclusive to major league teams, Volume III is 100% new material that builds on the well received Volumes I and II. Included are comprehensive defensive evaluations, a study on the effectiveness of the "Ted Williams shift", the new Timer Plus/Minus system, and updated Defensive Runs Saved numbers that estimate the value of each fielder in Major League Baseball.The Fielding Bible-Volume III will include:Defensive Runs Saved- the most comprehensive defensive evaluations are back and better than ever, with significant enhancements to the eight-component system first introduced in Volume II.Timer Plus/Minus-the revolutionary Plus/Minus system, which measures each fielder's ability to turn batted balls into outs, gets a facelift to incorporate the brand new battedball timer information, creating the most objective fielding evaluations ever.Good Play/Misplay Runs Saved-turns Bill James' in-depth Good Fielding Plays and Defensive Misplays system into a new component of Defensive Runs Saved, adding previously-unrecorded aspects of defense like scooped throws and pitch blocks.Total Runs-adding Pitching Runs Created to offensive, defensive, and baserunning ratings to combine every aspect of the game into one tell-all number for every playerThe latest essay from Bill James on defense.Defensive scouting reports and player commentaries on every regular and semi-regular position player in baseball.New studies on crucial aspects of fielding, including defensive positioning, the "Ted Williams shift", bunts, double plays, outfielder arms and catcher defense.
Download or read book National Geographic Who s Who in the Bible written by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a family guide to the Bible that, told through historic art and artifacts, tells the stories of biblical characters and highlights their greater meaning for mankind.
Download or read book The Executioners Bible written by Steve Fielding and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Executioner's Bible" tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's. Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other Chief and Assistant executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. Read about the bungling hangmen sacked for incompetence; drunken executioners dismissed for brawling; one hangman driven to suicide and another who 'got out just in time', to the last men to pull the lever at the height of the swinging sixties. They were the last of their kind: the hangmen of the 20th Century. And this is their fascinating sometimes repugnant, always enthralling story. The secrets of over six controversial decades of capital punishment are finally revealed.
Download or read book The Bill James Handbook 2018 written by Bill James and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill James and Baseball Info Solutions team of analysts continue to pack in new content, including a fresh look at the continues rise and effectiveness of The Shift and a new breakdown of home runs and long flyouts. And, as always, the book forecasts fresh hitter and pitcher projections for those looking to get an early jump on the next season.
Download or read book The Art of Fielding written by Chad Harbach and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others.
Download or read book Mathletics written by Wayne L. Winston and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mathletics shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, football, soccer, lacrosse, and golf, and in sports gambling. The authors describe the mathematical methods that top coaches and managers use to evaluate players and improve team performance, and give math enthusiasts the practical tools they need to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of their favorite sports - and maybe even gain the outside edge to winning bets. Mathletics blends fun and challenging math problems with sports stories of actual games, teams, and players, along with personal anecdotes from Winston's work as a sports consultant. The book includes easy-to-read tables and illustrations to illuminate the techniques and ideas presented, and all the necessary mathematical concepts - such as arithmetic, basic statistics and probability, and Monte Carlo simulations - are fully explained in the examples. The revised edition will include about 75 pages of revised text and roughly 40 new figures. The book will include updates to the data and inclusion of more recent players and teams throughout all the chapters. It will also include new chapters on soccer, lacrosse, and golf, as well as new findings on regression, game theory, and optimization"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Nolan Ryan s Pitcher s Bible written by Nolan Ryan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on the mechanics of pitching, and recommends a program of weight training, aerobic exercise, and sound nutrition.
Download or read book The Bible s Greatest Stories written by Paul Roche and published by Signet. This book was released on 2012 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the awe-inspiring story of the Creation to the defeats and triumphs of the Children of Israel and the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus, here are the greatest accounts from the greatest book ever written, presented in an accessible form for contemporary readers. Enhanced with annotations, Paul Roche's brilliant retelling of these stories is at once impeccably accurate and vibrantly told. He brings to life the saga of Joseph and the coat of many colors, the drama of the fall of Jericho, the heroism of a young David fighting Goliath and the lust of an older David for Bathsheba, the glory and wisdom of Solomon, the bravery of Judith, the dark despair of Job, the faith of Daniel in the lion's den, the joy of the Nativity, and the miracle of the Resurrection. These are just a few of the many great biblical stories presented in this masterful translation by a distinguished poet and scholar.
Download or read book Analyzing Baseball Data with R written by Max Marchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its flexible capabilities and open-source platform, R has become a major tool for analyzing detailed, high-quality baseball data. Analyzing Baseball Data with R provides an introduction to R for sabermetricians, baseball enthusiasts, and students interested in exploring the rich sources of baseball data. It equips readers with the necessary skills and software tools to perform all of the analysis steps, from gathering the datasets and entering them in a convenient format to visualizing the data via graphs to performing a statistical analysis. The authors first present an overview of publicly available baseball datasets and a gentle introduction to the type of data structures and exploratory and data management capabilities of R. They also cover the traditional graphics functions in the base package and introduce more sophisticated graphical displays available through the lattice and ggplot2 packages. Much of the book illustrates the use of R through popular sabermetrics topics, including the Pythagorean formula, runs expectancy, career trajectories, simulation of games and seasons, patterns of streaky behavior of players, and fielding measures. Each chapter contains exercises that encourage readers to perform their own analyses using R. All of the datasets and R code used in the text are available online. This book helps readers answer questions about baseball teams, players, and strategy using large, publically available datasets. It offers detailed instructions on downloading the datasets and putting them into formats that simplify data exploration and analysis. Through the book’s various examples, readers will learn about modern sabermetrics and be able to conduct their own baseball analyses.
Download or read book Fools Rush Inn written by Bill James and published by ACTA Publications. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second collection of recent articles (the first was Solid Fool's Gold), groundbreaking sabermetrician and baseball historian Bill James takes his unique way of looking at the world and applies it to topics as diverse as the major league players who went out on top, whether ground ball pitchers are as good (or as bad) as people think, do hitters like Yasiel Puig have hot hand streaks (they do) and why (that's a different question), and do teams have tough stretches and soft patches in their schedules (they do) and how to mention them. Along the way, James takes several detours to discuss his views on classical music, fiction versus non-fiction, keeping will animals in captivity, conservatives and liberals, and several other things that interest or offend him. He even includes a couple of his favorite old baseball stories and a new way to summarize something's or someone's history in exactly 10-25-50-100-200-500 words.
