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The Bill James Player Ratings Book (annual editions published 1993–1996) The Bill James Guide to Baseball Managers (1997) ISBN 978-0684806983; Bill James Present STATS All-Time Major League Handbook (1998; 2nd ed. 2000) ISBN 978-1884064814; Bill James Present STATS All-Time Major League Sourcebook (1998) ISBN 978-1884064531
Game score is a metric devised by Bill James as a rough overall gauge of a starting pitcher's performance in a baseball game. It is designed such that scores tend to range from 0–100, with an average performance being around 50 points.
Win Shares is a 2002 book about baseball written by Bill James and Jim Henzler. The book explains how to apply the concept of sabermetrics to assess the impact of player performance in a combination of several areas, including offensive, defensive, and pitching on their team's overall performance.
Bill James' two books, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (1985) and Win Shares (2002) have continued to advance the field of sabermetrics. [24] The work of his former assistant Rob Neyer , who later became a senior writer at ESPN.com and national baseball editor of SBNation, also contributed to popularizing sabermetrics since the mid ...
James explains in his book, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, why he believes runs created is an essential thing to measure: With regard to an offensive player, the first key question is how many runs have resulted from what he has done with the bat and on the basepaths.
The title is a play on Michael M. Lewis's 2003 book Moneyball, which examines the 2002 Oakland Athletics' use of sabermetrics to build a competitive baseball team; [11] the book would be made into an Oscar nominated film in 2011, the year after this episode aired.
Pages in category "Books by Bill James" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract; M. The Man from ...
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