Richard D Cramer

When Big Data Was Small

My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard D. Cramer¿started analyzing baseball statistics in the mid-1960s, after graduating from Harvard and MIT, and by 1969 he had discovered (or reinvented) the metric now known as OPS. He is the co-founder of STATS Inc. and has done important work with both SABR and Retrosheet.¿John Thorn is the official historian for Major League Baseball and the author of¿ Baseball in the Garden of Eden.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 231mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781496212054
• ISBN-10: 1496212053
• Artikelnr.: 54547248

Autorenporträt

Richard D. Cramer started analyzing baseball statistics in the mid-1960s, after graduating from Harvard and MIT, and by 1969 he had discovered (or reinvented) the metric now known as OPS. He is the co-founder of STATS Inc. and has done important work with both SABR and Retrosheet. John Thorn is the official historian for Major League Baseball and the author of  Baseball in the Garden of Eden.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword by John Thorn
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Setting the Stage
2. Baseball and Science Surface
3. College
4. Graduate School and the 1960s Computer
5. Industrial Synthetic Chemist
6. Harvard’s Research Computer
7. Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
8. Sabermetrics’ Infancy
9. Scientific Recognition
10. Twists of Fate
11. Birth of STATS Inc.
12. White Sox and Yankees
13. Scientific Career Transition
14. Rebirth of STATS Inc.
15. Comparative Molecular Field Analysis
16. STATS Soars
17. Cheerlessness and Lyme Disease
19. The Rise and Fall of TRPS
19. Repudiated by STATS
20. Tidying Up
21. In My Humble Opinion
22. Summing Up
Appendix: Bamberg Mathematical Analysis of Baseball
Notes
Bibliography
Index