If you’re like me and think baseball sucks but baseball stats rock, then O’Reilly’s upcoming Baseball Hacks might be just the thing for you. According to the PR blurb at O’Reilly,
This comprehensive guide walks readers through the sport’s core statistical categories, and then demonstrates how to use this data to truly understand baseball. Statistical analysis, data mining, probability, forecasting, and other valuable tools are examined.
Heh — he said data mining. Seriously. You know you want to learn how to compare teams and players with lattices (PDF).
This is supposed to be released in February.