Sabermetrics
... most famous) proponent. From David Grabiner's Sabermetric Manifesto: Bill James defined sabermetrics as "the ... team's ability to score runs. Typical sabermetric reasoning would say that runs win ballgames ... more runs than the opposing team. Accordingly, sabermetric measures - such as Bill James's Runs ... the area of performance measurement generally. Some sabermetric measurements have entered mainstream baseball usage, especially ... plus hits per inning pitched). Examples of sabermetric measurements On-base plus slugging (OPS) ...
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
... addition, Moneyball traces the history of the sabermetric movement back to such luminaries as Bill ... some scouts and media members, decry the sabermetric revolution and have disparaged Moneyball for going ... also elicited some criticism from even the sabermetric community. Lewis has been criticized for oversimplifying and exaggerating certain aspects of sabermetric thought. Moreover, his description of Oakland's ...
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Win shares
... STATS, Inc. in 2002. It takes a sabermetric approach to evaluating the contribution of individual ... defensive statistics. Win shares differs from other sabermetric player rating metrics such as Total player ... being used more and more in the sabermetric community but are not well known among casual baseball fans. Within the sabermetric community there is ongoing debate as to ...
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Talk:Defense independent pitching statistics
... start. Probably the largest online presence of sabermetric following is at baseballthinkfactory.org (previously knows ... baseball-reference.com, easily the most popular sabermetric online database). They have their own wiki ... the one that turned the whole online sabermetric community upside down with his initial findings ...
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Paul DePodesta
... Game. It was in this book that sabermetric baseball analysis was thrust into the mainstream ... been somewhat controversial in that he follows sabermetric principles, which are based largely on the ... between traditional "tools" oriented baseball philosophy and sabermetric philosophy, which is largely what the controversy ...
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Bill James
... Athletics general manager Billy Beane began applying sabermetric principles to running his low-budget team ... Epstein also turned out to have a sabermetric bent. One point of controversy was in ... the Red Sox, having published two new sabermetric books in the preceding four years. Indeed ...
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Defense independent pitching statistics
... effect on their outcome. There are several sabermetric statistics that use only these "defense-independent ... DIPS is regarded by many in the sabermetric community as the most important piece of ...
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Baseball Think Factory
... thrust of Baseball Think Factory is the sabermetric approach to baseball analysis and appreciation. The ... multi-sided discussions on baseball topics, both sabermetric and not. In addition to being mentioned ...
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Joe Morgan
... detractors of Billy Beane and the "Moneyball" sabermetric style of building teams. Instead, Morgan is ... Morgan can be described as a perfect sabermetric player, as he drew frequent walks and ...
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Fantasy baseball
... scoffed at today by fans of a sabermetric bent. Sabermetric thinkers argue wins and RBI often misrepresent ...
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