8 Best sports books like Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics by Rob Vollman

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Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics

By: Rob Vollman

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how the game …

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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

4.30

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more

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"Time is a variable continuum."

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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2. Thinking, Fast and Slow

By: Daniel Kahneman

4.18

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it."

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

-Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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3. Ego Is the Enemy

By: Ryan Holiday

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"While the history books are filled with tales of obsessive, visionary geniuses who remade the worl… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

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5. 99: Stories of the Game

By: Wayne Gretzky , Kirstie McLellan Day

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

First he rewrote the record book. Now, to mark the NHL's 99th anniversary, Wayne Gretzky has writte… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • hockey

6. Take Your Eye Off the Puck: How to Watch Hockey By Knowing Where to Look

By: Jeremy Roenick , Greg Wyshynski

3.16

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A guide for sports fans on how to watch and appreciate the game of hockey More and more fans are wa… read more

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7. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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8. The Game

By: Ken Dryden

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Widely acknowledged as the best hockey book ever written and lauded by "Sports Illustrated" as one … read more

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9. Fever Pitch

By: Nick Hornby

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no pr… read more

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10. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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11. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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12. Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things

By: Adam M. Grant

4.12

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times Bestseller“This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes … read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

By: Evan Drellich

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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14. The Richest Man in Babylon

By: George S. Clason

4.25

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

The Richest Man in Babylon is an early twentieth century classic about financial investment and mon… read more

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  • nonfiction
"ليس بالشيء الطيب أن يجلس الرجل بلا عمل"

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

"إن روح المماطلة موجودة في داخل كل إنسان"

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

"As for time, all men have it in abundance."

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

"Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts."

-George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon

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15. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)

By: George R.R. Martin

4.04

Format: 706 pages, Hardcover

With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George … read more

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"Will you not weep?"

-George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)

"Sail far. Sail fast."

-George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)

"All men are sinners."

-George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)

"I will not fight you,"

-George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)

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17. The MVP Machine: How Baseball's New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better Players

By: Ben Lindbergh

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Move over, Moneyball -- a cutting-edge look at major league baseball's next revolution: the high-te… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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18. Burke's Law: A Life in Hockey

By: Brian Burke

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges, the feuds, and th… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • hockey
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19. Astroball: The New Way to Win It All

By: Ben Reiter

4.20

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

When Sports Illustrated declared on the cover of a June 2014 issue that the Houston Astros would wi… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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20. Net Gains: Inside the Beautiful Game’s Analytics Revolution

By: Ryan O'Hanlon

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth examination of the rise of analytics in soccer and the wild experiments unfolding aroun… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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21. Scotty: A Hockey Life Like No Other

By: Ken Dryden

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA hockey life like no other. A hockey book like no other. Scotty Bowman is… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • hockey
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22. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics

By: Rob Vollman

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

With every passing season, statistical analysis is playing an ever-increasing role in how the game … read more

Similar categories in Rob Vollman's Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics book and Rob Vollman's Stat Shot: A Fan’s Guide to Hockey Analytics

  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • hockey

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

4.18

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Ego Is the Enemy

Ryan Holiday

4.00

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99: Stories of the Game

Wayne Gretzky , Kirstie McLellan Day

4.10

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Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis

3.80

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Gary Stevenson

4.26

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