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International Standard Book Number  

9781400842070 (electronic bk.)

International Standard Book Number  

1400842077 (electronic bk.)

Library of Congress Call Number  

GV706.8 .W56

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

796.0151

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Winston, Wayne L.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012

Physical Description  

1 online resource (391 p)

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Baseball; 1. Baseball's Pythagorean Theorem; 2. Who Had a Better Year, Nomar Garciaparra or Ichiro Suzuki?: The Runs-Created Approach; 3. Evaluating Hitters by Linear Weights; 4. Evaluating Hitters by Monte Carlo Simulation; 5. Evaluating Baseball Pitchers and Forecasting Future Pitcher Performance; 6. Baseball Decision-Making; 7. Evaluating Fielders: Sabermetrics' Last Frontier; 8. Player Win Averages.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용9. The Value of Replacement Players: Evaluating Trades and Fair Salary10. Park Factors; 11. Streakiness in Sports; 12. The Platoon Effect; 13. Was Tony Perez a Great Clutch Hitter?; 14. Pitch Count and Pitcher Effectiveness; 15. Would Ted Williams Hit .406 Today?; 16. Was Joe DiMaggio's 56-Game Hitting Streak the Greatest Sports Record of All Time?; 17. Major League Equivalents; Part II: Football; 18. What Makes NFL Teams Win?; 19. Who's Better, Tom Brady or Peyton Manning?; 20. Football States and Values; 21. Football Decision-Making 101.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용22. A State and Value Analysis of the 2006 Super Bowl Champion Colts23. If Passing Is Better Than Running, Why Don't Teams Always Pass?; 24. Should We Go for a One-Point or Two-Point Conversion?; 25. To Give Up the Ball Is Better Than to Receive: The Case of College Football Overtime; 26. Why Is the NFL's Overtime System Fatally Flawed?; 27. How Valuable are High Draft Picks in the NFL?; Part III: Basketball; 28. Basketball Statistics 101: The Four-Factor Model; 29. Linear Weights for Evaluating NBA Players; 30. Adjusted+/-Player Ratings; 31. NBA Lineup Analysis.

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완전내용32. Analyzing Team and Individual Matchups33. NBA Players' Salaries and the Draft; 34. Are NBA Officials Prejudiced?; 35. Are College Basketball Games Fixed?; 36. Did Tim Donaghy Fix NBA Games?; 37. End-Game Basketball Strategy; Part IV: Playing with Money, and Other Topics for Serious Sports Fans; 38. Sports Gambling 101; 39. Freakonomics Meets the Bookmaker; 40. Rating Sports Teams; 41. Which League Has Greater Parity, the NFL or the NBA?; 42. The Ratings Percentage Index (RPI); 43. From Point Ratings to Probabilities; 44. Optimal Money Management: The Kelly Growth Criteria.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용45. Ranking Great Sports Collapses46. Can Money Buy Success?; 47. Does Joey Crawford Hate the Spurs?; 48. Does Fatigue Make Cowards of Us All?: The Case of NBA Back-to-Back Games and NFL Bye Weeks; 49. Can the Bowl Championship Series Be Saved?; 50. Comparing Players from Different Eras; 51. Conclusions; Epilogue to the Paperback Edition; Index of Databases; Annotated Bibliography; Index.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a power hitter like David Ortiz? Should NFL teams pass or run more often on first downs? Could professional basketball have used statistics to expose the crooked referee Tim Donaghy? Does money buy performance in professional sports? In Mathletics, Wayne Win.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Sports Mathematics

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Sport & Recreation

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

SPORTS & RECREATION / Sports Psychology.

Additional Physical Form Entry  

Print versionWinston, Wayne L. Mathletics : How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football (New in Paper) Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012 9780691154589

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