Where geekdom and baseball intersect
Baseball's spring training is just around the corner, and that has many baseball geeks warming up their computers. The statistics-heavy game lends itself to deep computer-assisted analysis.
Guest: Joe Adler, author of the new book Baseball Hacks: Tips and Tools for Analyzing and Winning with Statistics.
Adler's Web sites for listeners:
retrosheet Box scores, play by play descriptions, and detailed data files for baseball games.
baseball-reference Very good free baseball statistics, based on the free baseball databank database. (That database can be downloaded from http://www.baseball-databank.org.)
