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It Could Happen
In spring, baseball hopes spring eternal even though the odds are long for most teams. But sometimes the dreams come through. What does it take to manufacture a miracle season? How realistic are these hopes for the 2012 major league teams? This book evaluates these hopes quantitatively using Baseball Win Accounting. Baseball Win Accounting provides an analytical framework for baseball using the on-base-plus-slugging (OPS) measure of performance for team offense and defense as the unit of account. It shows how hitting, pitching, and even fielding can be evaluated using this consistent measure of performance, and how to aggregate player performance to team wins.
It Could Happen will be available as an ebook (in PDF format). A short teaser is free for download.