Errata
Every book has mistakes and hopefullly the publishers have enough integrity to share the corrections. Baseball Info Solutions believes getting it right is more important than our company ego.
We found four sections in The Bill James Handbook 2007 with problems and one mistake that appears in multiple locations.
The Park Indices for left/right home runs and left/right batting average were incorrect. For your convenience, we reproduced the entire Park Indices section. Click here to see the PDF file (requires Adobe Reader).
Team Efficiency Summary used data through the games of September 6. Obviously, it should be through the end of the season. The formulas for some of the last six columns assume end of season data, so they weren't correct. Click here to see the entire Team Efficiency Summary data using data through the end of the season and formulas working the way Bill designed them.
The improved Baserunning section had a very minor problem. The "Scored" percentage column truncated the percentage instead of rounding it. Of course that means some players in the book have the correct percentage and some are off by one. Click here to see all the players, both corrected and the ones that were always correct.
The Baserunning Introduction included statistical examples; some were slightly off from the correct number. We gave Bill preliminary statistics to write his introduction and failed to get the examples precisely correct. Click here to read the entire introduction with all the examples precisely correct.
Page 371 was missing a title, though it was clear it was just the last page of "Pitchers vs. Left-Handed and Right-Handed Batters." A little more confusing was page 362, it was the natural last page of "Batters vs. Left-Handed and Right-Handed Pitchers", but it showed the wrong title.
We show Jose Valentin as a left-handed hitter on pages 255 and 361, but for 2006 he was a switch-hitter. He was a switch-hitter in the past, gave up switch-hitting, and went back to switch-hitting this year.
We apologize for the mistakes.
