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Title: Baseball Prospectus 2002 by Joseph S. Sheehan, Chris Kahrl, Clay Davenport ISBN: 157488428X Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 10 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89
Rating: 5
Summary: Insightful Commentary
Comment: I stumbled upon the Baseball Prospectus website about a year and a half ago and after reading the articles they frequently publish there, my view of baseball has totally changed. Basically, the BP team laughs in the face of traditional yet very lacking statistics such as batting average, RBIs, saves, wins and losses. They include several mathematicians who have created very comprehensive systems to evaluate batters (equivalent average), starters (Support-Neutral Wins Above Average), and relievers (Adjusted Runs Prevented). While they value the sabermetric approach to baseball, they also provide commentaries on less quantifyable aspects of the game.
While BP is occasionally prone to making sweeping exaggerations regarding a subject, they provide generally objective analysis of baseball in a very entertaining manner. BP 2002 is well-written and contains paragraphs on about 50 players per organization, organization reviews and assorted other articles along with each players translated (meaning adjusted for AAA, AA, etc or parks) statistics. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Both pedantic and funny
Comment: If you are a trained statistician, you will probably love this book. For each major leaguer, it takes his actual numbers and washes out park effects. Then it compares the value (in runs) of the player's production to the league average. There are fielding and pitching "stuff" statistics invented by Baseball Prospectus that attempt to account for all the variables that contribute to performance. For minor leaguers, it calculated "major league equivalencies"--i.e., what numbers the player would have put up if he had played in the majors.
The problem is that the bewildering array of new terms and statistical explanations will mean little to the casual fan. Even an experienced roto player who has a healthy respect for such methods, such as myself, will have an extremely difficult time putting it all together.
Fortunately, the player write-ups are as compelling a reason to buy the book as the statistical analysis. They are hilarious--inventive, creative, and full of oddball references. Baseball Prospectus can be a little too opinionated at times, and a little subjective for a group of people that professes to believe only in the data, but that's part of what makes them so funny. It's unbelievable how many different ways Joe Sheehan & Co. can find to say that a player is worthless.
Rating: 5
Summary: The book is also pretty funny sometimes ...
Comment: I forgot to mention in my lengthy review below that one of the best properties of Baseball Prospectus 2002 is the humor ... it adds to the readability a lot knowing that some funny and off-the-wall statements crop up in the player comments. I inadvertantly found myself up way past my bedtime recently reading about minor-leagues for the Tigers when I hit this note on Brandon Inge: he "does less damage at the plate than Lara Flynn Boyle". Good stuff. Keep it up, boys.
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Title: Baseball Prospectus 2003 by Gary Huckabay, Chris Kahrl ISBN: 1574885618 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Baseball Prospectus 2001 (Baseball Prospectus, 2001) by Joseph Sheehan, Clay Davenport, Gary Huckabay, Rany Jazayerli, Chris Kahrl, Keith Law, Mat Olkin, Dave Pease, Joseph S. Sheehan, Michael Wolverton ISBN: 1574883232 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James ISBN: 0684806975 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 23 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Win Shares by Bill James, Jim Henzler ISBN: 1931584036 Publisher: STATS Inc. Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis ISBN: 0393057658 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 10 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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