The Bill James Handbook 2007

by Bill James

Simply put, The Bill James Handbook 2007 is the best and most complete annual baseball reference guide available today. It includes informative introductions to the different sections and an extensive glossary that includes explanations and even mathematical formulae for the multitude of statistics now used in baseball--many of them developed by Bill James himself. This book contains a myriad of stats on every hit, pitch and catch in Major League Baseball's 2006 season.

New and key features

Fielding Bible Defensive Awards - NEW
Manufactured Runs Analysis - NEW
Manager's Record - IMPROVED & EXPANDED
Baserunning Analysis - IMPROVED
Career data for every 2006 major leaguer
Pitcher Projections
Hitter Projections
Team Efficiency Summary
Player Win Shares

Genres: Baseball

467 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

George William “Bill” James (born October 5, 1949, in Holton, Kansas) is a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books devoted to baseball history and statistics. His approach, which he termed sabermetrics in reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose. His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory).

In 2006, Time named him in the Time 100 as one of the most influential people in the world. He is currently a Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox. In 2010, Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_James