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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Sawchik, Travis, author.     Subjects     Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)     Baseball -- Statistical methods.     Baseball -- Mathematical models.     Baseball players -- United States -- Statistics.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sawchik, Travis, author.       by title:      Big data baseball [e...         MARC Display

Big data baseball [electronic resource] : math, miracles, and the end of a 20-year losing streak / Travis Sawchik. by Sawchik, Travis, author. New York, NY : FlatIron Books, 2015. Subjects Pittsburgh Pirates (Baseball team)   Baseball -- Statistical methods.   Baseball -- Mathematical models.   Baseball players -- United States -- Statistics. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E9280C3E-7395-4142-905F-B255E510F788 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{E9280C3E-7395-4142-905F-B255E510F788}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9781250063519 (electronic bk.) 1250063515 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was old school and stubborn. But after twenty straight losing seasons and his job on the line, he was ready to try anything. So when he met with GM Neal Huntington in October 2012, they decided to discard everything they knew about the game and instead take on drastic "big data" strategies. Big Data Baseball is Moneyball on steroids. It is an entertaining and enlightening underdog story that uses the 2013 Pirates season as the perfect lens to examine the sport's burgeoning big-data movement. With the help of data-tracking systems like PitchF/X and TrackMan, the Pirates collected millions of data points on every pitch and ball in play to create a tome of color-coded reports that revealed groundbreaking insights for how to win more games without spending a dime. In the process, they discovered that most batters struggled to hit two-seam fastballs, that an aggressive defensive shift on the field could turn more batted balls into outs, and that a catcher's most valuable skill was hidden. All these data points which aren't immediately visible to players and spectators, are the bit of magic that led the Pirates to spin straw in to gold, finish the 2013 season in second place, end a twenty-year losing streak.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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