THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Mr. Princeton President is a Mrs. (or a Dr.)
Shirley Tilghman, . Good luck!

(would you really require tenure?)

Tilghman went to my high school (a long, long, long time before me) so she may be receptive to the hockey side of things.

Yeah, I’d love to be able to offer an interdisciplinary sabermetrics minor some day.  I actually think it could be a big draw from the university (we’re small, so a few extra students a year is a big deal).  Might have some trouble getting it approved by my chair, however--something about them hiring me in to teach biology, not baseball.

The reading list is obviously much too big for one class.  My goal in making it, however, is to be able to give a topic list to the students early in the semester and allow them to choose which specific topics they’d most like to target.  The reading list will let me quickly generate a reading assignment from those selections without having to do much background research at that moment.  Semesters get busy, and I want this class to be awesome...hence the planning.

Thanks for the link!
-j

I’m a grad student at MIT.  We have this weird thing called January term, where students get all of January off from “real” classes, but a lot of people stick around because numerous fun, quirky classes are offered over that time.  If I weren’t so lazy, it would be a great time to try to offer a sabermetrics course…

Justin, let me know when you get the sabermetric dept established. I’m only 30 miles away, so I could make myslef available to teach some classes!

Seriously, I will be sending some reccomendations for the topic/reading list.

I’m a military history major but as a senior in my final semester I’ll be taking a sabermetric course starting about two weeks fom now… It’ll be interesting to see what the syllabus looks like.

Just remembered this thread.  I wrote to the president.  Let’s see what she says.

Tom, if you get the job I’d sell you some home run data, as long as I’m allowed to raise the price each year at the same rate the university raises tuition prices…