- Baseball Hacks
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Basics of Baseball
- Hacks 1–7: Introduction
- Score a Baseball Game
- Make a Box Score from a Score Sheet
- Keep Score, Project Scoresheet–Style
- Follow Pitches During a Game
- Follow the Game Online
- Add Baseball Searches to Firefox
- Find Images of Stadiums
- 2. Baseball Games from Past Years
- Hacks 8–23: Introduction
- Get and Install MySQL
- Get an Access Database of Player and Team Statistics
- Get a MySQL Database of Player and Team Statistics
- Make Your Own Stats Book
- Get Perl
- Learn Perl
- Get Historical Play-by-Play Data
- Make Box Scores or Database Tables from Play-by-Play Data with Retrosheet Tools
- Use SQL to Explore Game Data
- Use Microsoft Access to Run SQL Queries
- Get a GUI for MySQL
- Move Data from a Database to Excel
- Load Baseball Data into MySQL
- Load Retrosheet Game Logs
- Make a Historical Play-by-Play Database
- Use Regular Expressions to Identify Events
- 3. Stats from the Current Season
- 4. Visualize Baseball Statistics
- Hacks 30–39: Introduction
- Plot Histograms in Excel
- Get R and R Packages
- Analyze Baseball with R
- Access Databases Directly from Excel or R
- Load Text Files into R
- Compare Teams and Players with Lattices
- Compare Teams Using Chernoff Faces
- Plot Spray Charts
- Chart Team Stats in Real Time
- Slice and Dice Teams with Cubes
- 5. Formulas
- Measure Batting with SLG
- Measure Batting with OPS
- Measure Power with ISO
- Measure Batting with Runs Created
- Measure Pitching with ERA
- Measure Pitching with WHIP
- Measure Pitching with Linear Weights
- Measure Defense with Defensive Efficiency
- Measure Pitching with DIPS
- Measure Base Running Through EqBR
- Measure Fielding with Fielding Percentage
- Measure Fielding with Linear Weights
- Measure Park Effects
- Calculate Fan Save Value
- Calculate Save Value
- 6. Sabermetric Thinking
- Hacks 60–71: Introduction
- Calculate Expected Runs
- Calculate an Expected Hits Matrix
- Look for Evidence of Platoon Effects
- Significant Number of At Bats
- Find “Clutch” Players
- Calculate Expected Number of Wins
- Measure Hits by Pitch Count
- OBP, SLG, and Scoring Runs
- Measure Skill Versus Luck
- Odds of the Best Team Winning the World Series
- Top 10 Bargain Outfielders
- The Code
- Running the Hack
- Identify common attributes.
- Look at correlations.
- Identify possible explanations for correlations.
- Assign attribute scores.
- Group players based on similarity.
- Attach group membership to data set.
- Transform salary variable.
- Create linear regression model.
- Compare predicted versus actual salaries.
- Identify most-underpaid players.
- Identify most-overpaid players.
- Hacking the Hack
- Fitting Game Scores to a Strength Model
- 7. The Bullpen
- A. Where to Learn More Stuff
- B. Abbreviations
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
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