Download or read book Curve Ball written by Jim Albert and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at baseball data from a statistical modeling perspective! There is a fascination among baseball fans and the media to collect data on every imaginable event during a baseball game and this book addresses a number of questions that are of interest to many baseball fans. These include how to rate players, predict the outcome of a game or the attainment of an achievement, making sense of situational data, and deciding the most valuable players in the World Series. Aimed at a general audience, the text does not assume any prior background in probability or statistics, although a knowledge of high school abgebra will be helpful.