Goodby To Some Old Baseball Ideas (from LIFE magazine 1954-contains some fairly advanced formulas)
If you really want to blow your mind, read this article from Fortune magazine in 1935 about a very early and very sophisticated
The Base in Baseball By Travis Hoke
Why the System of Batting Averages Should Be Changed (by FC Lane around the year 1917-has linear weights values-dedades ahead of its time-the man was a trained scientist)
Then his analysis of the value of walks is at
The Base on Balls
And links to more Baseball Magazine articles are at
Cyril Morong's Sabermetric Research
I posted the following at BTB a few years ago
The post below is the few pages from FC Lane's book called "Batting" that dealt with the batting order. Whether or not it matches up with some of the recent analysis on lineups I will leave up to readers. One expert mentioned that it was a good idea to bat Cy Williams 2nd. FC Lane was a great baseball writer and editor of Baseball Magazine in the early part of the 20th century. It comes to you through the miracle of scanning (well, it was a miracle that I figured out how to use the scanner-actually my wife who is a computer programmer showed me how-the miracle is that she stays married to me)
How the Batting Order "Colors" Batting
FC Lane on the Batting Order
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