THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Interesting.  I wish they had something like that here at NYU.  We’ve got a few baseball-related classes (notably “Baseball and American Culture” and “Baseball as a Road to God” [taught by the university president no less]) and that’s good. 

But more distressing is that a lot of the statistical courses are structured in such a way that it’s a long journey through a lot of economics prerequisites before you can take them.  There’s only one stats course even presented as a non-economics course, and having taken it, it’s downright remedial.

There are so many fields that are opening up to statistical analysis; it’s a shame that the courses here still see it as relevent only to strict definitions of ‘economies.’