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Joe Peta's Tour Guide Presents A 2019 Masters Preview
From the author of the wildly popular baseball betting memoir Trading Bases, comes a new data-driven book -- this time focused on the PGA Tour. Merging the logic of baseball's sabermetric community with the newly-created tools available to golf analysts, Joe Peta takes readers into the world of golf analytics highlighted by an entirely new way to evaluate and enjoy golf's most popular tournament, the Masters.
Written in the same familiar and conversational tone which marked his last book, Peta's explanations of golf's new data frontier will interest both casual and serious fans of the PGA Tour. For those ESPN.com readers familiar with his uncanny ability to accurately predict baseball outcomes, Peta doesn't disappoint. In addition to a never-before-seen analysis of last year's event, his prediction for the 2019 tournament is included as well.
Sure to appeal to sports bettors, the data analytics crowd and, of course, golf fans of all stripes who look forward each year to the CBS telecast of the Masters, Joe Peta's Preview of the 2019 Masters is a worthy follow-up to his best-selling debut effort.
Written in the same familiar and conversational tone which marked his last book, Peta's explanations of golf's new data frontier will interest both casual and serious fans of the PGA Tour. For those ESPN.com readers familiar with his uncanny ability to accurately predict baseball outcomes, Peta doesn't disappoint. In addition to a never-before-seen analysis of last year's event, his prediction for the 2019 tournament is included as well.
Sure to appeal to sports bettors, the data analytics crowd and, of course, golf fans of all stripes who look forward each year to the CBS telecast of the Masters, Joe Peta's Preview of the 2019 Masters is a worthy follow-up to his best-selling debut effort.
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122 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 5, 2019
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About the author
Joe Peta
6 books21 followersRaised in West Chester, PA by a first generation Italian-American father who adopted baseball as a symbol of his love of America, Joe Peta quickly learned the joy of following the sport --- and the pain of being a 1970s-era Phillies fan. Undaunted, by the time he was a teenager, Joe felt certain that his heroes Mike Schmidt, Larry Bowa, Steve Carlton, et al would one day be his co-workers.
While his father instilled a love of baseball in him, sadly, Joe inherited his mother's throwing arm, so by the time he was in college at Virginia Tech he turned his career ambitions toward the glamorous and fast-paced life of a Certified Public Accountant. His new heroes were men like Bill James and Warren Buffett and Joe parlayed his love of numbers into an MBA from Stanford University. Even in business school, sports were never far from his mind. At Stanford, Joe penned columns in The Stanford Daily and The Reporter that earned him a following in spite of constant references to Melrose Place, and his turning down the opportunity to interview campus golfer Tiger Woods.
His debut effort, Trading Bases, A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Penguin Group) dropped in 2013 and topped best seller lists in both Baseball and Business categories. A Preview of the 2019 Masters published in 2019, contained a shockingly accurate preview of the event and was the #2 selling golf book of the year. Joe's latest effort, Moneyball for the Money Set was released in August, 2023.
Joe lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters, who would very much like his next book to either be about ballet or Taylor Swift.
While his father instilled a love of baseball in him, sadly, Joe inherited his mother's throwing arm, so by the time he was in college at Virginia Tech he turned his career ambitions toward the glamorous and fast-paced life of a Certified Public Accountant. His new heroes were men like Bill James and Warren Buffett and Joe parlayed his love of numbers into an MBA from Stanford University. Even in business school, sports were never far from his mind. At Stanford, Joe penned columns in The Stanford Daily and The Reporter that earned him a following in spite of constant references to Melrose Place, and his turning down the opportunity to interview campus golfer Tiger Woods.
His debut effort, Trading Bases, A Story About Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Penguin Group) dropped in 2013 and topped best seller lists in both Baseball and Business categories. A Preview of the 2019 Masters published in 2019, contained a shockingly accurate preview of the event and was the #2 selling golf book of the year. Joe's latest effort, Moneyball for the Money Set was released in August, 2023.
Joe lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters, who would very much like his next book to either be about ballet or Taylor Swift.
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March 9, 2021
More betting books should be like this: less focus on results and entertainment and more on the process. While even the most casual bettor knows how to apply Storkes Gained to their handicapping (focus of this), its Joe Peta's thought process that is vaulable here
Good details too on all quirks of each hole at Augusta
Good details too on all quirks of each hole at Augusta
April 8, 2025
This was fantastic. My first read through of this primer, and I thought this week was a great time to start since we’re heading to the 2025 Masters on Thursday.
Peta was a huge contributor to me discovering a sweeping interest in sport analytics, and reading this has reminded me that I need to read his Trading Bases book.
Really enjoyed the hole-by-hole breakdown, and seeing how the holes differ now to what they didn’t 6 years ago.
I appreciated that this book that focused on projecting outcomes and sports investing opportunities based on those outcomes was more data-driven and process oriented rather than result oriented.
May make this an annual read this time of year.
Peta was a huge contributor to me discovering a sweeping interest in sport analytics, and reading this has reminded me that I need to read his Trading Bases book.
Really enjoyed the hole-by-hole breakdown, and seeing how the holes differ now to what they didn’t 6 years ago.
I appreciated that this book that focused on projecting outcomes and sports investing opportunities based on those outcomes was more data-driven and process oriented rather than result oriented.
May make this an annual read this time of year.
May 23, 2019
An introduction to whet you appetite for more
I’m a huge fan of “Trading Bases”. So i was intrigued by this new book. It’s far from TB but it makes me want more about the statistical analysis of golf.
I’m a huge fan of “Trading Bases”. So i was intrigued by this new book. It’s far from TB but it makes me want more about the statistical analysis of golf.
April 5, 2019
Good read
What a wonderful read. I’ve turned my bank roll around with this type of data. Can’t wait to use this SG data against my book and friends.
What a wonderful read. I’ve turned my bank roll around with this type of data. Can’t wait to use this SG data against my book and friends.
June 1, 2019
Only 88 pages but fun read with great insight into golf stats and better understanding of the key metrics
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