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Baseball Player Won-Lost Records: 150 Players, 50 Years
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 Won-Lost Records in Baseball
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.
Scouting and Scoring
An in-depth look at the intersection of judgment and statistics in baseball Scouting and scoring are considered fundamentally different ways of ascertaining value in baseball. Scouting seems to rely on experience and intuition, scoring on performance metrics and statistics. In Scouting and Scoring, Christopher Phillips rejects these simplistic divisions. He shows how both scouts and scorers rely on numbers, bureaucracy, trust, and human labor to make sound judgments about the value of baseball players. Tracing baseball’s story from the nineteenth century to today, Phillips explains that the sport was one of the earliest fields to introduce numerical analysis, and new methods of data collection were supposed to enable teams to replace scouting with scoring. But that’s not how things turned out. From the invention of official scorers and Statcast to the creation of the Major League Scouting Bureau, Scouting and Scoring reveals the inextricable connections between human expertise and data science, and offers an entirely fresh understanding of baseball.
The Hollow Hope
Presents a powerful argument for the limitations of judicial action to support significant social reform—now updated with new data and analysis. Since its first publication in 1991, The Hollow Hope has spurred debate and challenged assumptions on both the left and the right about the ability of courts to bring about durable political and social change. What Gerald N. Rosenberg argued then, and what he confirms today through new evidence in this edition, is that it is nearly impossible to generate significant reforms through litigation: American courts are ineffective and relatively weak, far from the uniquely powerful sources for change they are often portrayed to be. This third edition in...
The Glastonbury Gift
As billionaire Wade Rivers sits in front a Key West hotel with a newspaper and a cup of coffee, it appears to be an ordinary morningexcept for the black sedan parked across the street. Inside are three males who are observing him. Wade knows he has lived with his secret for far too long. As one of the men exits the sedan, Wade tries to prepare himself for the inevitable. Noah Jackson is a CIA agent who is battling terminal cancer. After he shakes Wades hand and sits down, they both look down at the Masonic rings they wear. As Noah encourages Wade on a journey of remembrance he hopes will lead him to the truth, a story unfolds of a young World War II flyer as he is led from Florida to England and finally to a beautiful woman and a mystic object that changes not just his life, but also the lives of many others. When Wades story concludes, will both men be granted what they need most: healing and freedom? In this tale of adventure and mystery, the paths of a CIA agent and a person of extreme wealth become intertwined as one of them searches for the truth and the other for peace after the discovery of a powerful cup.
