Sabermetrics

SabermetricsIn this article I introduce you to the world of Sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball statistics to measure player performance, in game probabilities and much more.

With Sabermetrics you’ll be able to do most anything from decide who was the greatest hitter of all time to analyze the probability that your team will win.

But, to get started with Sabermetrics, you need to first get your tools being MySQL and a Baseball Stat Database. Both are free! More info follows the video below.

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More on Sabermetrics

I plan on covering many more Sabermetric formulas, but you can find mostly everyone of them in The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract. He is credited with first publishing many of the formulas we will explore.

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13 thoughts on “Sabermetrics”

  1. I need help I can’t seem to get it to run right it always sends the following error message:

    -bash: mysql: command not found
    HELP PLEASE

  2. hello derek,
    if i do not give ‘group by s.teamID’ clause for query, i get single record for teamID ANA why?
    i want to understand this.

    Select s.yearID, s.teamID, sum(s.salary) as salary, t.w as wins, salary/t.w as cpw from salaries s ,teams t where s.yearID = 2002 and s.teamID = t.teamID and s.yearID = t.yearID;

  3. hello derek,
    If i remove
    Group by clause
    In any of your sql query,
    I get only one entry instead of multiple entries.
    Why?

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