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Paperback The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball Book

ISBN: 0786462884

ISBN13: 9780786462889

The Beauty of Short Hops: How Chance and Circumstance Confound the Moneyball Approach to Baseball

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Sabermetrics, the search for objective knowledge about baseball through statistical analysis, has taken over the national pastime. The authors argue that this approach began as a useful corrective but has come to harm baseball. The book demonstrates that the so-called moneyball approach, based on sabermetrics, offers only limited guidance for assembling a team, managing games, and evaluating player performance. Equally important, the obsession...

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