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Baseball Prospectus 2002 (Baseball Prospectus)

10 reviews
Clay Davenport, Joseph Sheehan, ...

Potomac Books, 2002

TOP NOTCH BASEBALL WRITING
I hope you have alot of time on your hands because you will not be able to put this great book down. Provides totally honest and intelligent team reviews, explaining why transactions were made and what were the good/bad ramifications. Excellent and witty player insight, brutally honest at points. Found myself laughing out load many times. You won't believe what you've been missing.

Baseball Prospectus 2007: The Essential Guide to the 2007 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus)

29 reviews

Plume, 2007

Great Book
Everything you want to know and more for a pre-season review of all the players.

The Legend of Mickey Tussler

15 reviews
Frank Nappi

St. Martin's Press, 2008

Fantastic Book!
While reading The Legends of Mickey Tussler I never wanted to put it down. It's one of those books that you need to know whats going to happen to the characters, or what is going to happen next. Nappi's story about how a 17 year old with autism is brought into the game of baseball is exciting, but a little sad at times. Just picturing how this boy is able to pitch the way he does is incredible. ...

How to Read a Mutual Fund Prospectus: A Practical Guide to Getting the Most Out of a Mutual Fund Prospectus

1 review
Thomas P. Lemke, Gerald T. Lins

Mercer Point Press, 1999

A Handy Reference Guide for All Fund Investors
An excellent, practical guidebook for the mutual fund investor. Helps you understand what you own.

SAY IT LOUD...I Sell And I'm Proud: A Career Prospectus

1 review
Tyrone L. Cypress

iUniverse, Inc., 2006

Great read!!!!
This book is a great read - even if you're not a "salesperson." The stories are great and the lessons learned are applicable to everyday life.

Baseball Prospectus 2005: Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age (Baseball Prospectus)

18 reviews
Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts

Workman Publishing Company, 2005

The Future Of Baseball
This refrence book is part of what's known as the sabrmetrics, or statistical analysis, movement in baseball today, particularily the pro game. The main thesis that this book is based around is the factual idea that baseball players (and, by association, baseball decisions) can be analyzed using stats. Many successful MLB teams, including the A's, Red Sox, Indians, Cardinals, and Dodgers use ...

Baseball Prospectus 2008: The Essential Guide to the 2008 Baseball Season (Baseball Prospectus)

16 reviews

Plume, 2008

Baseball Prospectus 2008
This is a great book! Great stats, good projections, good reading for the Fantasy and Baseball Fan

Baseball Prospectus 2000 (Baseball Prospectus)

8 reviews
Chris Kahrl, Keith Law, ...

Potomac Books Inc., 2000

Baseball for adults
If every general manager in baseball (Ed Lynch, are you reading this! ) was forced to study this book, entire paradigms of baseball lore would suddenly be pushed aside in favor or fresh, rational, and rigorous principles of management. All of the statistics provided in the prospectus are, of course, second to none, but Michael Wolverton's relief ratings (ARP, ARA, etc.) are truly something ...

Pro Basketball Forecast: 2004-05 Edition (Pro Basketball Prospectus)

2 reviews
John Hollinger

Potomac Books, 2004

New Concept in Predicting the Pros
This is a detailed analysis of virtually every player (I can't think of any he missed, but there could have been one or two). Each team has a couple of pages describing where they are, what happened last year and what it expected next year. Then it gets really interesting. Mr. Hollinger has developed a fairly sophisticated set of statistical standards that he then applies to each player on ...

Baseball Prospectus '97 (Baseball Prospectus)

3 reviews
Joe Sheehan, Clay Davenport, ...

Ravenlock Media, 1997

An absolutely delightful companion for the fan
These authors are gifted and insightful in ways that the average baseball writer can not even begin to comprehend. They get inside the numbers and situations of players. Their forecasts are intriguing and provoking -- and often right. The intellectual horsepower of the editorial staff is amazing; these are the same guys who have been sharing their wisdom on rec.sport.baseball for years to ...

Baseball Prospectus: 2001 Edition (Baseball Prospectus)

7 reviews
Joseph Sheehan, Chris Kahrl, ...

Potomac Books, 2001

Stellar, as usual
BP remains the standard for baseball annuals, with zillions of player comments both informative and entertaining, and team comments which are generally excellent. They know more about more players than anyone else. Minor quibble: Every year the back cover exhalts BP's predictive prowess and gives examples, yet for some reason the 2001 edition fails to speak of, for instance, the success of the ...

Baseball Prospectus 2003 (Baseball Prospectus)

11 reviews
Joseph Sheehan, Clay Davenport, ...

Potomac Books, 2003

Still the wittiest and most incisive commentary on baseball
Baseball Prospectus was already the best annual publication on baseball for thinking baseball fans, and in 2003 it got better in several ways. First, in the past it only contained Clay Davenport's translated stats, but this year it includes both actual (or untranslated) stats and translated stats (batting avg, OBP, SLG, ERA). That's useful because you can compare the actual to translated stats to ...

THE BOOK - Playing The Percentages In Baseball

7 reviews

TMA PRESS, 2006

The best book of its kind - by far!
Other sabermetric books have been written in the last few years, The Book is the best one by far. It is chock full of information, results from research and answers a lot of interesting baseball questions. The three authors, Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman and Andrew Dolphin have academic backgrounds and work for major league teams as employees or consultants. They use statistical methods to ...

Pro Football Prospectus 2005 : Statistics, Analysis, and Insight for the Information Age

22 reviews
Aaron Schatz, Staff of FootballOutsiders.com

Workman Publishing Company, 2005

A 'must' for any with more than a casual interest in football
Any avid football fan will want to have Profootball Prospectus 2005: Statistics, Analysis, And Insight For The Information Age. From team and player ratings which correct for situation and opponent to a statistical set of tools to compare players and teams, exclusive predictions from pros, and essays on past seasons, Profootball Prospectus is packed with charts of facts and insights on players ...

Baseball Prospectus 2004: Statistics, Analysis and Insight for the Information Age

12 reviews
The Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts

Workman Publishing Company, 2004

Excellent Statistical Guide
I bought the Baseball Prospectus 2004 thinking that it would be a beefed up version of a fantasy magazine. I was pleasantly surprised that it was much more. I can see why baseball GMs read it. It offers excellent statistical analysis of the past performances of players and gives educated PECOTA projections for the future. I would bet the first thought of first-time readers when they open this ...

Pro Basketball Prospectus: 2002 Edition (Pro Basketball Forecast)

6 reviews
John Hollinger

Potomac Books, 2002

Fan-tastic
This is an amazing work. As a long-time reader of Bill James and the "Baseball Prospectus" staff, I had my doubts as to whether a similar statistical approach would work when applied to basketball. John Hollinger, though, allays those fears. Hollinger has developed several statistics that illuminate the game, including Player Efficiency Rating (PER), which is a stat taking into account most of ...

Baseball Between the Numbers

20 reviews
Baseball Prospectus Team of Experts

Perseus Books Group, 2006

Great book
great read. It shines some light into generally accepted baseball numbers. If you loved Moneyball, you'll love this book.

Pro Football Prospectus 2007: The Essential Guide to the 2007 Pro Football Season (Pro Football Prospectus)

14 reviews

Plume, 2007

Excellent teaching/learning guide
An in depth look at different ways of measuring individual and team performances, giving readers new insights behind America's greatest game. Often times, these will point to hidden strengths and weaknesses a year or two early. Also included are a team projections for the upcoming season as well as Fantasy Football projections that are often different than the traditional lists. This is a ...

Baseball Prospectus: 1998 (Baseball Prospectus)

9 reviews
Gary Huckabay, Steven Rubio, ...

Potomac Books, 1998

Outstanding book
The one reviewer made the comment that any such book should use "real" stats, instead of adjusted. That defies all principles of statistical analysis! Such an approach would render the book useless, and the reviewer's comments should be struck from this collection of reviews because that reviewer is obviously unqualified. I found the book incredibly useful, because the author made every ...

Baseball Prospectus, 1999 (Baseball Prospectus)

7 reviews
Clay Davenport, Keith Law, ...

Potomac Books, 1999

Top shelf analysis....as comprehensive as you find anywhere.
I won my roto title last season with information from Prospectus '98. I will be defending my title with Prospectus '99.

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