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The beginnings of baseball statistics can be traced to 1845, the year the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York City established a set of rules and practices that became the foundations of modern baseball. The Knickerbockers kept scorebooks in which they recorded the names of players participating in each match and, often, the runs scored and outs made by each player. During the 1850s, other clubs formed and adopted the New York team’s style of record-keeping. Newspapers ... began to take notice of baseball and published regular statistical summaries and game accounts.
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NEW YORK, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Information Builders today announced release 2.0 of its "Grand Slam" baseball statistics Web site. Grand Slam is located at http://baseball.ibi.com and allows visitors to analyze baseball statistics that are now updated daily. The latest version of the popular Web site includes more accurate searching capabilities and the ability for users to create their own statistical criteria and apply them across all teams to determine player or team rankings.
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Baseball is probably the greatest sport in the world for statisticians, math fanatics or just people who love to over analyze things. Not only does it have a ton of statistics, but unlike most other sports the statistics can often be used as a predictor of future performance for individual players, regardless of changes to the team as a whole. This is because each player, while on a team, has to perform certian tasks (pitching and hitting) on their own. So while Karl Malone, now playing with Shaq and Kobe on the Lakers, cannot be expected to do as well statistically, moving Barry Bonds to another team in baseball should have no effect on his statistics, outside of park effects, which are ... measurable.
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