Stat One - Softcover

Messmer, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071496335 ISBN 13: 9780071496339

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2008

Synopsis

Get ready for the mother of all numbers.

If you had to give just one number to determine a baseball player's success, which would you pick? Batting average, RBI, OPS, home-run percentage? It's impossible to choose. Now you don't have to. For the first time ever, there's a formula that incorporates every aspect of a player's offensive game into one stat that gets straight to the core of performance.

The Offensive Production and Efficiency Average, or P/E Average for short, gives you a comprehensive measure of everyone who has ever played the game. Stat One walks you through the calculations and then takes you around the field to analyze, rate, and rank the greatest players in baseball history at every position. You'll find surprising answers to the questions that really matter:

• Who's better on first, Foxx or Gehrig?
• Is Jim Rice a Hall of Famer?
• Would Derek Jeter come up short next to old Honus Wagner?
• How does Mantle compare with Mays?
• And much more--plus the 100 greatest players of all time

About this title

About the Author:

Craig M. Messmer is a lifelong baseball fan. A former elementary school teacher, he has used his formula for calculating P/E Averages with students in math classes for years. Learn more at statonebaseball.com.

From the Back Cover:

“Terrific and thought provoking . . . an invaluable resource for comparing players in all eras.” —from the foreword by Bill Madden, New York Daily News

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071496335
• ISBN 13: 9780071496339
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464