Smart Baseball: The Story Behind the Old STATS That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think about Baseball (Audiobook)

from JJbooklvr

I remember as a kid opening up a pack of baseball cards and spending hours pouring over the statistics on the backs of them. Then arguing with my friends over which players were better. In this book Keith Law first shows us how the statistics we grew up do not do as good of a job as we thought in...

from kcshankd

I am curious about the perceived audience for this book - Law is merciless in his dead-horse beating of batting average and fielding percentage that ordinary fans will be put off, and the converted can only wince. He hits his stride in the last chapters, describing the current state of the game a...

from BooksForDinner

This an excellent book for those who either haven't followed the last twenty years of baseball analysis or are still holding on to RBI as their favorite stat. Really does a nice job explaining advances in player evaluation and projection without making you slog through a lot of spreadsheets and t...

from gmmartz

'Smart Baseball', by ESPN's Keith Law, is off the charts great if you're a baseball fan and interested in the 'new' stats that are changing, and helping us understand, the game. Law is an ex-scout/front-office guy who is articulate, knowledgeable, and opinionated, and you don't need much more tha...

from Kavinay

This isn't just a useful book for baseball or sports analytics. Law's approach to making sense of data in the applied field of baseball points out the many flaws and pitfalls of any analytical pursuit. Cases of "managing to the stat" or simply relying on counting stats to the exclusion of useful ...