Ron Shandler's 2014 baseball forecaster
Subtitle: and encyclopedia of fanalytics
Contributors: Murphy, Ray; Hershey, Brent; Kruse, Brandon
Publisher: Triumph Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 795
ISBN-13: 9781623687502; 9781600788413
Subjects: Baseball; Statistics; Miscellanea; Forecasting; Records; SPORTS & RECREATION
Other titles: 2014 baseball forecaster
Description: 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 th.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Nightmare; Encyclopedia of Fanalytics; Fundamentals; Batters; Pitchers; Prospects; Gaming; Statistical Research Abstracts; Gaming Research Abstracts; Major Leagues; Batters; Pitchers; Injuries; Prospects; Top Impact Prospects for 2014; Top Japanese Prospects; Major League Equivalents; Leaderboards; Draft Guides; Blatant Advertisements for Other Products.