Academic Press Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations

Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations offers an introduction to this increasing area of interest to statisticians, students of the game, and many others. Pairing a primer on the applied math with an overview of the origin of the field and its context within baseball today, the work provides an engaging resource for students and interested readers. It includes coverage of relevant baseball history, Bill James and SABR, broken records and steroids. Drawing on the author’s experience teaching the subject at Seton Hall University since 1988, Sabermetrics also offers practice questions and solutions for class use. Review Provides an accessible introduction to the practice of sabermetrics in context with recent trends and issues in baseball From the Back Cover <p><i>Sabermetrics: Baseball, Steroids, and How the Game has Changed Over the Past Two Generations</i>, offers an introduction to this increasing area of interest to statisticians, students of the game, and many others. Pairing a primer on the applied math with an overview of the origin of the field and its context within baseball today, the work provides an engaging resource for students and interested readers. The text includes coverage of relevant baseball history, Bill James and SABR, broken records, and steroids. Drawing on the author’s experience teaching the subject at Seton Hall University since 1988, <i>Sabermetrics</i> also offers practice questions and solutions for class use.</p> About the Author Gabriel B. Costa is currently a visiting professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point and is on the faculty at Seton Hall. He is a priest and a mathematician and holds many titles which he fills with distinction. He has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology. He pioneered one of the first courses in Sabermetrics at West Point, and he has also co-authored two other Academic Press books with Richard Bronson, Matrix Methods, Third Edition, as well as with John T. Saccoman, Linear Algebra: Algorithms, Applications, and Techniques, Third Edition.