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Statistical Thinking in Sports

Jim Albert, Ruud H. Koning

Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports

This handbook provides overviews of statistical methods in sports, in-depth treatment of critical problems and challenges confronting statistical research in sports. The material in the handbook is organized by major sport followed by a section on other sports and general statistical design and analysis issues that are common to all sports.

Statistical Thinking in Sports

Covers statistical and econometric methodology along with a range of sporting applications. This book addresses topics such as ranking and performance measurement, measurement and interpretation of home advantage, measurement of interventions in sports, competitive balance, limits of sports, betting, and attendance of sporting events.

1. Jim Albert

Visualizing Baseball

"Jim Albert has a new book out. It’s called Visualizing Baseball and it’s a treat. It is a pretty short book—just 135 pages—and many of those pages are filled with graphs rather than text. Jim is adept at combining words and visuals. His prose is pointed and precise, and he doesn’t waste time 'sabersplaining.' Instead, he articulates a concept and then shows it on a graph. Both parts of your brain are engaged, your understanding deepens, and the lessons carry longer.The graphs start out simple and grow in complexity as the content becomes more complex. Moving from simple scatterplots with fitted lines, Albert moves onto graphs with elaborate labels and changes the size of dots based on some underlying values. He inserts box plots, classic PITCHf/x graphs, density graphs, isobars and violin plots, to name a few techniques. It sounds overwhelming, but each graph builds on a previous one, and it all makes sense as you move along. Most importantly, Albert doesn’t clog his graphs with lots of graph junk and needless color. The only color is blue—everything else is in black/gray scale. So many graphs these days seem to be built to impress other graphic artists instead of educating the reader. This book is a welcome antidote to that trend."~The Hardball Times "The primary aim of the book is well executed. In almost all cases the graphics are well thought out, and quickly communicate characteristics in the data, that would be difficult to convey using tables or summary statistics. The quality of the diagrams and the printing is very good. Each diagram comes with a clear explanation and many of the results are demonstrated usingwell known players."~Journal of Statistical Software"This is a book written by a statistician for the stats enthusiast about baseball. I say stats enthusiast and not statistician because little to no stats experience is required to understand the book. Likewise little expertise about baseball is assumed...The big appeal to Visualizing Baseball is the graphs...I learned a lot from Visualizing Baseball, and that's impressive given that the book is only 142 pages. I'm glad I spent the time to read it."~Jack Davis, Simon Fraser University

Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports

"The Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analysis in Sports is a phenomenal reference text capturing some of the best work of more than 40 statisticians active in the intersection of statistical methodology and sports data. It consists of 24 largely independent chapters each written by different authors, and outlines advances in statistical methodology applied to baseball, American football, basketball, ice hockey, football (soccer), golf, and cricket. The brilliant design of the text’s structure provides readers with a broad survey of the statistics-in-sports research landscape; it could reasonably be implemented in statistics curricula in a variety of formats and at different levels.~Joe Nolan, Journal of the American Statistical Association

1. Jim Albert
2. Jay Bennett

Curve Ball

To be sure, this ever-growing group of aficionados brought a lot of sophistication to baseball analysis, and were constantly looking for statistical insights beyond the listings of the top ten batters found in popular newspapers and magazines.