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Curveball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game

A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These include how to rate players, predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an achievement, making sense of situational data, and deciding the most valuable players in the World Series. Aimed at a general audience, the text does not assume any prior background in probability or statistics, although a knowledge of high school abgebra will be helpful.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 350
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780387001937
  • Genres
  • baseball, sports, mathematics
  • Release date
  • 2003