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  • Winning Fantasy Baseball

    Secret Strategies of a Nine-Time National Champion

    In Winning Fantasy Baseball, Larry Schechter discloses the secrets of his proven methods. Packed with commonsense, easy-to-use strategies for beginners through experienced players, Schechter supplies readers with a toolkit to achieve the most important thing in fantasy ball--winning!Some have called Schechter one of the best fantasy baseball players in the world. He is a two-time winner of the CDM ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Fantasy Sports

    And the Stories of the People Who Made It Happen

    Fantasy sports are everywhere-over 50 million Americans play fantasy football, baseball, basketball, and beyond, while 200 million fans in India fuel fantasy cricket. What started as quirky backyard games exploded into a multi-billion-dollar industry... but the full story has never been told-until now. In this first-ever complete history, Amazon bestselling author Larry Schechter (Winning Fantasy ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to FirstFirst

    by Jonah Keri ...
    What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history.In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and ... Read more

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  • Ahead of the Curve

    Inside the Baseball Revolution

    by Brian Kenny ...
    “A delight for baseball lovers” (Kirkus Reviews) and “one of the most significant baseball books of the year” (Bob Costas) Ahead of the Curve uses stories from baseball’s present and past to examine why we sometimes choose ignorance over information, and how tradition can trump logic.Forget batting average. Kill the “Win.” Say goodbye to starting pitchers. And please, please stop bunting. MLB ... Read more

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  • Fantasy Football The Next Level

    How to Build a Championship Team Every Season

    by David Dorey ...
    Leading fantasy football prognosticator David Dorey provides a "concise and intelligent game plan to beat the competition" in this expert guide (Tim Green, New York Times Bestselling Author of Dark Side of the Game).Between 20 and 30 million people play fantasy football each year. Now, Fantasy Football: The Next Level goes beyond stats and projections to teach readers a proven approach to drafting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Yankee Years

    The definitive story of one of the greatest dynasties in baseball history, Joe Torre's New York Yankees.When Joe Torre took over as manager of the Yankees in 1996, they had not won a World Series title in eighteen years. In that time seventeen others had tried to take the helm of America’s most famous baseball team. Each one was fired by George Steinbrenner. After twelve triumphant seasons—with ... Read more

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  • The System

    The Glory and Scandal of Big-Time College Football

    A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the YearNCAA football is big business. Every Saturday millions of people file into massive stadiums or tune in on television as "athlete-students" give everything they've got to make their team a success. Billions of dollars now flow into the game. But what is the true cost? The players have no share in the oceans of money. And once the lights go down, the glitter ... Read more

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  • Scorecasting

    The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won

    In Scorecasting, University of Chicago behavioral economist Tobias Moskowitz teams up with veteran Sports Illustrated writer L. Jon Wertheim to overturn some of the most cherished truisms of sports, and reveal the hidden forces that shape how basketball, baseball, football, and hockey games are played, won and lost.Drawing from Moskowitz's original research, as well as studies from fellow ... Read more

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  • Winning Fixes Everything

    How Baseball’s Brightest Minds Created Sports’ Biggest Mess

    by Evan Drellich ...
    The reporter who broke the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with the never-before-told inside account of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it, and the sign-stealing scandal itself.Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America. As Moneyball-thinking and ... Read more

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  • Smart Baseball

    The Story Behind the Old Stats That Are Ruining the Game, the New Ones That Are Running It, and the Right Way to Think About Baseball

    by Keith Law ...
    Predictably Irrational meets Moneyball in ESPN veteran writer and statistical analyst Keith Law’s iconoclastic look at the numbers game of baseball, proving why some of the most trusted stats are surprisingly wrong, explaining what numbers actually work, and exploring what the rise of Big Data means for the future of the sport.For decades, statistics such as batting average, saves recorded, and ... Read more

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  • Hockey Abstract Presents... Stat Shot

    The Ultimate Guide to Hockey Analytics

    by Rob Vollman ...
    Making advanced stats simple, practical, and fun for hockey fansAdvanced stats give hockey’s powerbrokers an edge, and now fans can get in on the action. Stat Shot is a fun and informative guide hockey fans can use to understand and enjoy what analytics says about team building, a player’s junior numbers, measuring faceoff success, recording save percentage, the most one-sided trades in history, ... Read more

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  • Never Make the First Offer

    (Except When You Should) Wisdom from a Master Dealmaker

    "On a handshake, I've trusted Donald Dell with my life." -Arthur Ashe, U.S. Open championGood negotiators know the rules. Great negotiators know when to break those rules. And then there are the true master dealmakers, like the pioneering sports lawyer Donald Dell. Over the last four decades, he has fought for some of the biggest stars in the world-Michael Jordan, Jimmy Connors, Patrick Ewing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD