Gordon Edes April 11, James , Bill And, as always, the book forecasts fresh hitter and pitcher projections for those looking to get an early jump on the next season. Today more than ever, number crunching affects your life in ways you might not even imagine. Intuition and experience are no longer enough to make the grade. In order to succeed—even survive—in our data-based world, you need to become statistically literate. Cutting-edge organizations are already crunching increasingly larger databases to find the unseen connections among seemingly unconnected things to predict human behavior with staggeringly accurate results.
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A must-have book or gift for every true fan, with lifetime statistics and leader boards for every player in the major leagues and projections for how they might do in the future. And, of course, there will be first projections on what players can be expected to do next season in every facet of the game. All of the authors are writing about subjects that they love and subjects that they have devoted years of study to.
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