Understanding Sabermetrics (38 page)

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Authors: Gabriel B. Costa,Michael R. Huber,John T. Saccoma

 
Bonds, Barry
 
Boyer, Ken
 
Brown, Dr. Bobby
 
 
Camden Yards, Oriole Park at
 
Career value
 
Carlton, Steve
 
Clemente, Roberto
 
Cobb, Ty
 
Color barrier
 
Correlation
 
Crawford, Willie
 
Cumulative home run ratio (CHR)
 
 
Dean, Dizzy
 
Delahanty, Ed
 
Designated hitter
 
Diagnostic test
 
DiMaggio, Joe
 
Dodger Stadium
 
 
Ebbets Field
 
Equivalence coefficient (EC)
 
 
Fantasy league
 
Fenway Park
 
Fielding average (FA)
 
Fielding runs (FR)
 
Free agency
 
 
Gehrig, Lou
 
Gehringer, Charlie
 
Gibson, Bob
 
Gibson, Josh
 
Gold Glove
 
Green Cathedrals
 
Grove, Robert Moses (“Lefty”)
 
Guidry, Ron
 
 
HDG22
 
HDG23
 
Henderson, Rickey
 
Hernandez, Keith
 
The Hidden Game of Baseball
 
Hitting streaks
 
Hoban, Mike
 
Hoban effectiveness quotient (HEQ)
 
Hodges, Gil
 
Home run rate (HRR)
 
Howard, Ryan
 
 
Interleague play
 
Isolated power (ISO)
 
 
James, Bill
 
Jeter, Derek
 
Johnson, Walter
 
Jones, Cleon
 
 
Kantoku shou
 
Keeler, Wee Willie
 
Koufax, Sandy
 
 
League factor (LGF)
 
Least squares
 
Linear weights
 
 
Maddux, Greg
 
Mantle, Mickey
 
Mattingly, Don
 
Mays, Willie
 
McGwire, Mark
 
McNally, Dave
 
Mean
 
Measures of dispersion
 
Median
 
Mode
 
Mora, Melvin
 
Morneau, Justin
 
Most Valuable Player Award (MVP)
 
 
Non-Sabermetrical factors
 
 
On-base plus slugging (OPS)
 
Outs on base (OOB)
 
 
Paige, Satchel
 
Palmer, Jim
 
Palmer, Pete
 
Park-adjusted runs created (PARC)
 
Park factor
 
Peak value
 
Pitching runs (PR)
 
Player career total (PCT)
 
Polo Grounds
 
POP, accumulating OPS and BA
 
Power factor (PF)
 
Pujols, Albert
 
Pythagorean Record
 
 
Ramirez, Manny
 
Range factor (RF)
 
RCTECH
 
Regression
 
Retrosheet
 
Robinson, Brooks
 
Robinson, Frank
 
Robinson, Jackie
 
Rodriguez, Alex
 
Rookie of the Year Award
 
Rose, Pete
 
Run productivity average (RPA)
 
Runs created (RC)
 
Ruth, Babe
 
Ryan, Nolan
 
 
Saccoman, Dr. John J.
 
Scatterplot
 
Schmidt, Mike
 
Seaver, Tom
 
Simulation
 
Slugging times on-base percentage (SLOB)
 
Smith, Dave
 
Standard deviation
 
Sultan of Swat
 
 
TECHRC
 
Thomas, Frank
 
Total average (TA)
 
Total power quotient (TPQ)
 
 
Utley, Chase
 
 
Valenzuela, Fernando
 
 
Wagner, Honus
 
Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP)
 
Williams, Ted
 
Wills, Maury
 
Win shares (WS)
 
Wins above average (WAA)
 
Wood, Wilbur
 
World Champion Mets
 
Wright, David
 
Wrigley Field
 
 
Yankee Stadium
 
Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center
 
About the Authors
 
Gabriel B. Costa
is a Roman Catholic priest, ordained for service in 1979 for the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. He is also a mathematician and is on an extended academic leave from Seton Hall University. He is a professor of mathematical sciences at the United States Military Academy, located at West Point, New York, where he also functions as an associate chaplain. He is a member of SABR and has published in
The Baseball Research Journal
,
Elysian Fields Quarterly
and other journals. He has been a Yankees fan since he was 10 years old in 1958.
 
Michael Huber
is an associate professor of mathematics at Muhlenberg College. He was a co-teacher of sabermetrics at the United States Military Academy with Father Gabriel Costa from 1996 to 2006. His book,
West Point’s Field of Dreams: Major League Baseball at Doubleday Field
, was published in 2004 by Vermont Heritage Press, chronicling 87 exhibition games played between Army cadets and major league baseball teams. A lifelong baseball fan, he enjoys rooting for the Baltimore Orioles, attending minor league games, and modeling rare events in baseball, such as triple plays, no-hitters, and hitting for the cycle.
 
John T. Saccoman
is an associate professor of mathematics and computer science at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He team-teaches one of the earliest known sabermetrics courses there with its founder, Father Gabriel Costa. His work has appeared in numerous SABR publications, including
Deadball Stars of the National League
,
Deadball Stars of the American League,
and
The Fenway Project
. He has contributed biographies of Gil Hodges and Willie Mays, among others, to the SABR Bio Project. A charter member of the Elysian Fields (NJ) Chapter of SABR, John resides in northern New Jersey with his son (and fellow Mets fan) Ryan and Bosox-loving wife Mary.

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