Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix
6. 1. The Music of Sphere and Ash 1
7. 2. What’s Wrong with Traditional Baseball Statistics 9
8. 3. The New Statistics 37
9. 4. The Linear Weights System 62
10. 5. There’s No Place Like Home 82
11. 6. The Theory of Relativity and Other Absolute Truths 102
12. 7. The Good Old Days Are Now 122
13. 8. The Book . . . and the Computer 150
14. 9. Rising to the Occasion 169
15. 10. 44 Percent of Baseball 177
16. 11. Measuring the Unmeasurable 192
17. 12. What Makes Teams Win 201
18. 13. Great Single-Season Performances 221
19. 14. The Ultimate Baseball Statistic 237
20. 15. Rumblings in the Pantheon 249
21. Key to Symbols Used in the Tables 262
22. Tables 265
23. Appendix: Top 500 Players of All Time (through 2013) 417
24. Bibliography 429