By Shane Ryan
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In Slaying the Tiger, one of today's boldest younger sportswriters spends a season contained in the ropes along the emerging stars who're remodeling the sport of golf.
For greater than a decade, golfing used to be ruled by way of one galvanizing determine: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods. yet as his big name has fallen, a brand new, formidable iteration has stepped as much as declare the crown. as soon as the area of veterans, golfing observed a formative years revolution in 2014. In Slaying the Tiger, Shane Ryan introduces us to the risky, colourful crop of heirs obvious who're storming the barricades of this ordinarily out of date sport.
because the golfing author for invoice Simmons's Grantland, Shane Ryan is the precise bring in for the sport's new age. In Slaying the Tiger, he embeds himself for a season at the PGA journey, the place he unearths the sport a long way faraway from the genteel rhythms of yesteryear. as an alternative, he discovers a bunch of mercurial abilities pushed to greatness through their worry of failure and their relentless perfectionism. From Augusta to Scotland, with an irreverent and lively voice, Ryan records each transcendent second, each press tent tirade, and each controversy that made the 2014 journey the most interesting and unpredictable in contemporary memory.
listed below are indelibly drawn profiles of the game's younger weapons: Rory McIlroy, the Northern Irish ace who progressed because the game's subsequent star; Patrick Reed, a brash, conceited competitor with a warrior's mentality; Dustin Johnson, the intense usual expertise whose deepest behavior sabotage his strength; and Jason Day, a resilient Aussie whose hardscrabble beginnings make him the Tour's final longshot. right here is also the bumptious Bubba Watson, a religious Christian recognized for his unsportsmanlike outbursts at the golfing direction; Keegan Bradley, a flinty New Englander who performs with a gigantic chip on his shoulder; twenty-one-year-old Jordan Spieth, a preternaturally mature Texan wearing the hopes of the golfing institution; and Rickie Fowler, the standard California child striving to make his golfing communicate louder than his vivid orange clothes.
sure through their expertise, each hungrier than the final, those avid gamers will vie over the arrival decade for the proper to be referred to as the following king of the sport. golfing might be sluggish to alter, yet in 2014, the wheels have been turning at a feverish velocity. Slaying the Tiger offers a dynamic picture of a swiftly evolving sport.
Praise for Slaying the Tiger
"This e-book goes to be arguable. there is not any query approximately it. . . . it's the such a lot unvarnished view of the tour--the largest travel within the world--that I've ever learn. And it's now not close."--Gary Williams, golfing Channel
"I imagine it's very important to have books like this within the canon of golfing, within the canon of sports."--Damon Hack, golfing Channel
"Slaying the Tiger deals vivid, opinionated prose at the smooth online game. Ryan's clean glance is simply what we golfer/readers want."--Curt Sampson, New York Times bestselling writer of Hogan
"Ryan does a wonderful activity portray a considerate and exact portrait of the hot crop of heirs apparent."--Stephanie Wei, Wei lower than Par
"A masterfully written account of a huge time in golfing heritage in a method that's synonymous to the book's middle message."--Adam Fonseca, golfing Unfiltered
"Absolutely outstanding . . . Ryan's writing flows and his reporting turns pages for you."--Kyle Porter, CBS Sports
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After accounting for all of these factors, if pitchers or hitters have clutch ability, then past RISP performance should predict present RISP performance. The results presented in the table below strongly support the hypotheses that neither hitters nor pitchers have clutch ability. The table below reports the estimated impact of each factor on the likelihood of the outcome occurring, where a one-unit change in the predicting variable is associated with an X-unit change in the outcome variable at the average.
0000018. For practical purposes, there is no effect here; especially when compared to the other factors in the model. The performance variables show a nearly one-for-one relationship with outcomes. 3 to 4 percent—that is, 14 to 17 points in batting average and 33 to 40 points of on-base percentage. 043 bases or 39 to 43 points of slugging average. Those who wish to cling to the idea that clutch ability exists may identify imperfections in the analysis to justify their continued faith in clutch players.
Other metrics are also subject to random fluctuations; therefore, care must be taken when inferring skills from any performance metric. At this stage it appears that several offensive metrics are highly correlated with run production and are similarly stable. Any of these metrics would do a fine job at estimating player value, but because I have to choose one metric for valuing hitters, I use the one that makes the most intuitive sense, which the third criterion requires. OPS, battter’s run average, and runs created measure batting skill, but do not include stolen bases.