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2015 baseball forecaster : an encyclopedia of fanalytics. / editors, Ray Murphy, Brent Hershey ; associate editor, Brandon Kruse ; technical wizard, Rob Rosenfeld ; design, Brent Hershey ; data and charts, Matt Cederholm ; player commentaries, Ryan Bloomfield [and eleven others] ; research and articles, Jason Collette [and four others] ; injury chart, Rick Wilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- USA Today Sports
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball--Statistics.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Miscellanea.
- Baseball--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books LLC, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The industry's longest-running publication for baseball analysts and fantasy leaguers, the 2014 Baseball Forecaster, published annually since 1986, is the first book to approach prognostication by breaking performance down into its component parts. Rather than predicting batting average, for instance, this resource looks at the elements of skill that make up any given batter's ability to distinguish between balls and strikes, his propensity to make contact with the ball, and what happens when he makes contact-reverse engineering those skills back into batting average. The result is an unparall
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Benchmarks; Encyclopedia of Fanalytics; Fundamentals; Batters; Pitchers; Prospects; Gaming; Statistical Research Abstracts; Gaming Research Abstracts; Major Leagues; Batters; Pitchers; Injuries; Prospects; Top Impact Prospects for 2015; Top Japanese Prospects; Major League Equivalents; Leaderboards; Draft Guides; Blatant Advertisements for Other Products
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 8, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-63319-021-8
- 1-62937-013-4
- 1-63319-023-4
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