Big Data Baseball: Math, Miracles, and the End of a 20-Year Losing Streak
✍ Scribed by Sawchik, Travis
- Book ID
- 109248616
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781250063502
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
New York Times Bestseller
After twenty consecutive losing seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates, team morale was low, the club's payroll ranked near the bottom of the sport, game attendance was down, and the city was becoming increasingly disenchanted with its team. Pittsburghers joked their town was the city of champions...and the Pirates. Big Data Baseball is the story of how the 2013 Pirates, mired in the longest losing streak in North American pro sports history, adopted drastic big-data strategies to end the drought, make the playoffs, and turn around the franchise's fortunes.
Award-winning journalist Travis Sawchik takes you behind the scenes to expertly weave together the stories of the key figures who changed the way the small-market Pirates played the game. For manager Clint Hurdle and the front office staff to save their jobs, they could not rely on a free agent spending spree, instead they had to improve the sum of their parts and find...