The numbers game
Characters in The numbers game
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Henry Chadwick
A pioneering 19th-century sportswriter who invented the baseball box score and established the game's early statistical foundation.
Bill James
The revolutionary writer and pioneer of sabermetrics whose self-published Baseball Abstracts transformed how fans and front offices analyze the game.
Supporting characters
Allan Roth
The groundbreaking statistician hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers who became baseball's first full-time, front-office statistical analyst.
Earnshaw Cook
A retired scientist and Manhattan Project veteran who authored Percentage Baseball, an early, highly analytical attempt to optimize baseball strategy.
John Dewan
A key figure in the modern sports data industry who helped build STATS Inc. into a major statistical powerhouse.
Branch Rickey
The forward-thinking Brooklyn Dodgers executive who embraced statistical analysis and hired Allan Roth to gain a competitive edge.
Hal Richman
The inventor of Strat-O-Matic, a highly popular tabletop baseball board game based on realistic player statistics.