Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: 150 Players, 50 Years
Title | Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: 150 Players, 50 Years PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Thress |
Publisher | |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2018-04-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781980850526 |
Tom Thress's Baseball Player Won-Lost records do what no other statistic does: credit players for their contributions to actual team wins and losses game by game and play by play. In this book, Thress uses his statistic to identify 150 key players from the first 50 seasons since major-league expansion (1961 - 2010). He shares fun facts about these players' careers, looks at what made them elite players, and introduces you to what he hopes will some day be the definitive baseball statistic: Baseball Player won-lost records.
Player Win Averages
Title | Player Win Averages PDF eBook |
Author | Eldon G. Mills |
Publisher | |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball
Title | Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Thress |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2017-08-23 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1476629234 |
Baseball analysts often criticize pitcher win-loss records as a poor measure of pitcher performance, as wins are the product of team performance. Fans criticize WAR (Wins Above Replacement) because it takes in theoretical rather than actual wins. Player won-lost records bridge the gap between these two schools of thought, giving credit to all players for what they do--without credit or blame for teammates' performance--and measuring contributions to actual team wins and losses. The result is a statistic of player value that quantifies all aspects of individual performance, allowing for robust comparisons between players across different positions and different seasons. Using play-by-play data, this book examines players' won-lost records in Major League Baseball from 1930 through 2015.
Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball
Title | Player Won-Lost Records in Baseball PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Thress |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1476670242 |
Baseball analysts often criticize pitcher win-loss records as a poor measure of pitcher performance, as wins are the product of team performance. Fans criticize WAR (Wins Above Replacement) because it takes in theoretical rather than actual wins. Player won-lost records bridge the gap between these two schools of thought, giving credit to all players for what they do--without credit or blame for teammates' performance--and measuring contributions to actual team wins and losses. The result is a statistic of player value that quantifies all aspects of individual performance, allowing for robust comparisons between players across different positions and different seasons. Using play-by-play data, this book examines players' won-lost records in Major League Baseball from 1930 through 2015.
Who's who in Baseball History
Title | Who's who in Baseball History PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN | 9781566194693 |
This is an excellent question and answer book about baseball and its history.
Baseball Players of the 1950s
Title | Baseball Players of the 1950s PDF eBook |
Author | Rich Marazzi |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 457 |
Release | 2015-06-08 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 1476604290 |
The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959--the "golden age," many say--are profiled in this exhaustive work. From Aaron to Zuverink: this treasure-trove of anecdotes, many gathered from personal interviews, is full of historical facts, controversy, and trivia. Readers will be reminded, that Milwaukee Braves pitcher Humberto Robinson was asked by a gambler to fix a game against the Phillies (he refused), Joe Adcock chased Giants pitcher Ruben Gomez around the field with a bat, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and president of the AL, and that Chuck Conners became an actor. All of this and much more can be found here.
Collier's Encyclopedia
Title | Collier's Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 870 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |