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Over baseball history, which park has been the best for run scoring?1 Which player would lose the most home runs after adjustments for ballpark effect?2 Which player claims four of the top five places for best individual seasons ever played, based on all-around offensive performance.3 (See answers, below). These are only three of the intriguing questions Michael Schell addresses in Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers, a lively examination of the game of baseball using the most sophisticated statistical tools available. The book provides an in-depth evaluation of every major offensive event in baseball history, and identifies the players with the 100 best seasons and most productive careers. For the first time ever, ballpark effects across baseball history are presented for doubles, triples, right- and left-handed home-run hitting, and strikeouts. The book culminates with a ranking of the game's best all-around batters. Using a brisk conversational style, Schell brings to the plate the two most important credentials essential to producing a book of this kind: an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and a professional background in statistics. Building on the traditions of renowned baseball historians Pete Palmer and Bill James, he has analyzed the most important factors impacting the sport, including the relative difficulty of hitting in different ballparks, the length of hitters' careers, the talent pool from which players are drawn, player aging, and changes in the game that have raised or lowered major-league batting averages. Schell's book finally levels the playing field, giving new credit to hitters who played in adverse conditions, and downgrading others who faced fewer obstacles. It also provides rankings based on players' positions. For example, Derek Jeter ranks 295th out of 1,140 on the best batters list, but jumps to 103rd in the position-adjusted list, reflecting his offensive prowess among shortstops. Replete with dozens of never-before reported stories and statistics, Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers will forever shape the way baseball fans view the greatest heroes of America's national pastime. Answers: 1. Coors Field 2. Mel Ott 3. Barry Bonds, 2001-2004 seasons

Table of Contents:
Preface ix Abbreviations xi Chapter 1: Fair Ball!: Why Adjustments Are Needed 1 PART ONE: The Methods Chapter 2: Manager's Game Plan: Method for Identifying the Best Batters 11 Chapter 3: New Ball!: Historical Changes in Offensive Events 28 Chapter 4: Calling It a Career: Examining Player Aging 45 Chapter 5: Talent Search: Measuring the Spread in Player Performance 58 Chapter 6: Home Park Advantage: A Closer Look at Park Effects 69 PART TWO: The Findings Chapter 7: Swing, Batter!: Adjusting Batting Average 101 Chapter 8: Hit ... and Run: Adjusting Double and Triple Totals 108 Chapter 9: This One's Outta Here!: Adjusting Home Run Totals 118 Chapter 10: Changing the Score: Adjusting Run and RBI Totals 131 Chapter 11: The Count: Adjusting Walk and Strikeout Totals 149 Chapter 12: Stealing the Show: Adjusting Stolen Base Totals 162 Chapter 13: Putting It All Together: First, a Look at Traditional Measures 168 Chapter 14: Fantasy League: Baseball's Best Batters 177 Chapter 15: The Players Take the Field: Accounting for Player Position 189 Chapter 16: Final Score: Updates for the 2004 Season 204 Chapter 17: Post-Game Report: Conclusions 209 APPENDICES: Statistical Methods A The Piecewise Linear Regression Method 219 B Moving Average Smoothing of Data 226 C The Multiple Changepoint Regression Procedure 228 D How to Estimate Ballpark Effects 235 E Transformations of Offensive Event Averages 247 F How to Adjust for Doubles and Triples 257 G Predicting Runs and RBIs from the Batting Record 260 Adjustment Data H Regular Player Event Averages 265 I Event Performance Spreads 266 J Event Park Effects 267 K Home Run Park Effects 284 Player Results L Best Individual Seasons 297 M Best Careers 327 N Adjusted Career Offensive Averages 356 Glossary 380 References 387 Player Index 389

About the Author :
Michael J. Schell is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the author of Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How Statistics Can Level the Playing Field (Princeton).

Review :
"Baseball fans, ever fascinated with statistics, should enjoy rifling through this information-packed work."--Library Journal "Michael J. Schell has produced what may be the most rigorous effort yet to compare baseball players from various eras. And in the process, he has offered a tantalizing suggestion that steroids may not have affected the game as much as many people assume."--Christopher Shea, The Boston Globe


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691115573
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 408
  • Sub Title: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0691115575
  • Publisher Date: 27 Feb 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 680 gr


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