Schell Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters

How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5063-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schell, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Badminton Baseball
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Technical Notes

Preface

Introduction: In the Dugout 3

Pt. I The Method 13

1 On Deck with the Qualifying Players 15

2 First Base - Adjusting for Late Career Declines 29

3 Second Base - Adjusting for Hitting Feasts and Famines 45

4 Third Base - Adjusting for League Batting Talent 67

5 Home - Adjusting for Ballpark 103

Pt. II The Findings 133

6 The Adjusted Top 100 Hitters 135

7 Top Hitters by Position 157

8 Best Single-Season Batting Averages 173

9 The Ballparks 185

10 On Base Percentage 213

11 The Hall of Fame 227

12 Where Would the Current Stars Rank? 241

Afterword: Post-Game Wrap-Up 249

App. I: Abbreviations and Glossary 253

App. II Right- vs. Left-Handed Hitting 257

App. III League Batting Averages 259

App. IV Ballpark Effect Batting Averages 269

App. V League Base on Balls Averages 275

References 283

Index 285

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Schell is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the author of Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs (Princeton) and has published more than 100 research articles on statistics and cancer.