Related Links
Here are some related links to help you learn more about sabermetrics.
Please note: This list is intended as a guide to help you learn more about sabermetrics. It is not a comprehensive list of all sabermetric sources, of which there are thousands … maybe tens of thousands. Notice any major omissions? Send a note to jpomrenke@sabr.org.
Articles
- “Do Clutch Hitters Exist?” by Dick Cramer (Baseball Research Journal, 1977)
- “He Does It By The Numbers,” by Dan Okrent (Sports Illustrated, May 25, 1981)
- “Introducing Project Scoresheet,” by Bill James (Baseball Analyst, October 1983)
- “Pitching and Defense: How Much Control Do Pitchers Have?” by Voros McCracken (Baseball Prospectus, January 23, 2001)
- “Underestimating the Fog” by Bill James (Baseball Research Journal, 2004)
- “How Sabermetrics Helps Build a Better Ballgame,” by Nate Silver (Baseball Analysts, May 10, 2007)
- “The Many Flavors of DIPS: A History and Overview”, by Dan Basco and Michael Davies (Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2010)
- “The Ballad of Bill James,” by Joe Posnanski (Joe Blog, September 2011)
- “The History of Total Baseball and Pete Palmer’s Baseball Database,” by Pete Palmer (SABR.org, April 2, 2015)
Books
- Baseball Hacks by Joseph Adler (O’Reiley Media, 2006)
- Beyond Batting Average, by Lee Panas (Lulu, 2010)
- Bill James Baseball Abstracts, by Bill James (self-published, 1977-80; Ballantine, 1981-88)
- The Book, by Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman and Andrew Dolphin (Potomac, 2007)
- The Hidden Game of Baseball, by John Thorn and Pete Palmer (Doubleday, 1984)
- Mathletics, by Wayne Winston (Princeton University Press, 2009)
- Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (Norton, 2004)
- The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players, by Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik (Basic Books, 2020)
- The New Ballgame: The Not-So-Hidden Forces Shaping Modern Baseball, by Russell A. Carleton (Triumph Books, 2023)
- The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, by Bill James (revised: Free Press, 2003; original: 1985)
- The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination With Statistics, by Alan Schwarz (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005)
- The Science of Baseball: The Math, Technology, and Data Behind the Great American Pastime, by Will Carroll (SkyHorse, 2022)
- Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics, by Gabriel Costa, Michael Huber and John Saccoman (McFarland, 2019; original: 2009)
Publications
- Abstracts from the Abstracts, Rich Lederer’s 12-part series at Baseball Analysts summarizing the original (and hard-to-find) Bill James Abstracts
- Baseball Analyst archives, Bill James’ sabermetrics journal in the 1980s
- Baseball Research Journal archives
- “By The Numbers,” archives of SABR’s Statistical Analysis Committee newsletter
Bibliography
- SABR member Charlie Pavitt maintains a bibliography of academic and journal-published sabermetric research. This version is as of August 17, 2022. Click here for Introduction and Description (.doc) and click here for Bibliography (.xls).
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