Mathletics is a remarkably entertaining book that shows readers how to use simple mathematics to analyze a range of statistical and probability-related questions in professional baseball, basketball, and football, and in sports gambling. How does professional baseball evaluate hitters? Is a singles hitter like Wade Boggs more valuable than a power hitter like David Ortiz? Should NFL teams pass or run more often on first downs? Could professional basketball...

Baseball Italian Style brings together the memories of major leaguers of Italian heritage whose collective careers span almost a century, from the 1930s up to today. In these first-person accounts, baseball fans will meet at an intimate level the players they cheered as heroes or jeered as adversaries, as well as coaches, managers, front-office executives, and umpires. The men who speak in this collection, which includes eight Hall of Famers (Yogi...

"Big Data" is not just a buzz phrase; it is helping us to make advances in almost every field-from security to shopping, from democracy to finance. But do we really know what Big Data is and where it is taking us? Timandra Harkness helps us to explore the basics of Big Data, looking at how it is being used by business to understand its customers, by the police to fight crime, and how politicians are using it to inform policy and win votes. Looking...

L'ensemble de la réglementation inhérente à la procédure, aux méthodes d'évaluation du risque et des incidences financières ainsi que les règles relatives aux contentieux sont abordées. Ce Vademecum s'adresse avant tout aux cinq millions d'employeurs (secteur privé et public) et personnes immatriculées à l'Urssaf qui sont ou seront contrlés. Il s'adresse également aux professionnels du droit (juristes, avocats, experts comptables) qui...

A franchise and fan base in perpetual search of validation finally had its ticket punched as 2016 dawned. Mike Piazza, who held records in one hand and a city's rapt attention in the other, gained election to the Hall of Fame. Within weeks of this long-awaited announcement, the ballclub with whom he chose to cast his eternal lot, the New York Mets, made a date to retire his number. In Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star, Greg W. Prince-cocreator...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Signal and the Noise tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Nate Silver's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.

Sa longue carrière de consultant aux USA, en France et en Algérie lui a permis de s'inspirer des meilleurs pratiques mondiales pour rédiger cet ouvrage. Ses analyses de prospective économique se sont avérées, par le passé, d'une incroyable exactitude. Voilà ce qu'il nous dit en substance « Le scénario de la déchéance est fort probable si des mesures salutaires et radicales ne voient pas le jour très rapidement. Tout le monde y perdrait....

With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how hockey is played and covered. Knowledge of the underlying numbers can help fans stretch their enjoyment of the game. Acting as an invaluable supplement to traditional analysis, Stat Shot: A Fan's Guide to Hockey Analytics can be used to test the validity of conventional wisdom and to gain insight into what teams are doing behind the scenes - or maybe what they...

Un rapport précis de l'enquête sur les engagements et les actions du Gouvernement français pour l'innovation. Cette année encore, l'Observatoire donne rendez-vous au Gouvernement pour faire le bilan annuel du Pacte pour la Croissance, la Compétitivité et l'Emploi vu des start-up, PME et ETI innovantes. Pour la 3ème année consécutive, le Comité Richelieu et GAC Group publient les résultats d'une enquête sur les engagements et les actions...