The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008

A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2007 baseball season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the post season and the World Series. Key features include: ? Reviews of how 2005 played out in each of baseball's six divisions ? An in-depth look at the minor leagues ? Detailed team stats and graphs ? Team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers ? A postseason and World Series round up

A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2008 baseball season, this annual includes reviews of how 2008 played out in each of baseball's six divisions; provides detailed team stats and graphs; offers team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers; and more.

The folks at The Hardball Times are well-known for their cutting-edge analysis of the season that was, but in 2009 The Hardball Times will become the information clearing house for the season that will be. The Hardball Times Season Preview 2009 provides projections for major league players and teams as well as individual players' careers. The stable of writers at The Hardball Times offers up fantasy strategies, top candidates for breakouts and collapses, and of course, the top prospects to watch in 2009.

A comprehensive analysis of the entire 2006 baseball season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the post season and the World Series. Key features include: Reviews of how 2005 played out in each of baseball's six divisions, An in-depth look at the minor leagues, Detailed team stats and graphs, Team-by-team individual hitting and fielding numbers, A postseason and World Series round up.

The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2011 compiles some of the best analytical and historical writing on baseball with unique and innovative statistics into a timeless annual guide. With guest writers like Rob Neyer, John Dewan, Richard Lederer and Tom Tango, and articles on some of the hottest topics in baseball, as well as historical analyses, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual is a resource readers will enjoy again and again.

The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2006 is a comprehensive analysis of the entire 2005 MLB season from the first pitch to the last out, including a breakdown of the playoffs and World Series.

In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost. Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow economists such as bestselling author Richard Thaler, the authors look at: the influence home-field advantage has on the outcomes of games in all sports and why it exists; the surprising truth about the universally accepted axiom that defense wins championships; the subtle biases that umpires exhibit in calling balls and strikes in key situations; the unintended consequences of referees' tendencies in every sport to "swallow the whistle," and more. Among the insights that Scorecasting reveals: • Why Tiger Woods is prone to the same mistake in high-pressure putting situations that you and I are • Why professional teams routinely overvalue draft picks • The myth of momentum or the "hot hand" in sports, and why so many fans, coaches, and broadcasters fervently subscribe to it • Why NFL coaches rarely go for a first down on fourth-down situations--even when their reluctance to do so reduces their chances of winning. In an engaging narrative that takes us from the putting greens of Augusta to the grid iron of a small parochial high school in Arkansas, Scorecasting will forever change how you view the game, whatever your favorite sport might be.

Over the past few decades, a multitude of advanced hitting, pitching, fielding and base running measures have been introduced to the baseball world. This comprehensive sabermetrics primer will introduce you to these new statistics with easy to understand explanations and examples. It will illustrate the evolution of statistics from simple traditional measures to the more complex metrics of today. You will learn how all the statistics are connected to winning and losing games, how to interpret them, and how to apply them to performance on the field. By the end of this book, you will be able to evaluate players and teams through statistics more thoroughly and accurately than you could before.