Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The analysis of quantitative categories to evaluate the requirements for overall team success and the specific effectiveness of individual players in meeting those requirements. Sabermetrics often employs more complex statistical categories than those used in traditional baseball statistics.
- noun Statistical data used in such analysis.
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- noun US The
analysis ofbaseball , especially via itsstatistics .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is pretty funny to see complaints about sabermetrics from a crowd that knows more about statistics because it is impossible to get great statistics in baseball.
Analyzing Roger Clemens: A Step-by-Step Guide - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He coined the word sabermetrics, which comes from the acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research.
Brownsville Herald : By BOB BAUM, The Associated Press 2010
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He coined the word sabermetrics, which comes from the acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research.
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I grew up as a big fan of Bill James and his analysis of baseball; it's now pretty much mainstream, but "sabermetrics" -- the systematic analysis of baseball statistics -- was absolutely revolutionary at the time.
Archive 2006-02-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2006
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In that year, as the film has it, Billy finds salvation from the A's relative poverty—relative most painfully to the filthy-rich Yankees—by putting into practice the theories of Bill James, who'd been preaching the gospel of so-called sabermetrics.
'Moneyball': Stars, Stats and Perfect Pitch Joe Morgenstern 2011
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That the team has to look in a new direction, which in this case is the power of numbers, aka sabermetrics.
Tim Wendel: Once Again, Baseball Confounds and Amazes Tim Wendel 2011
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Much of this dates back to the growth of sabermetrics, which is essentially the application of advanced statistical analysis to baseball.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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That the team has to look in a new direction, which in this case is the power of numbers, aka sabermetrics.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tim Wendel 2011
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January 14th, 2010 Bill James is against sabermetrics trademarkBOSTON - Bill James, the father of the baseball statistical analysis known as sabermetrics, doesn't want the word to be trademarked.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 AP 2010
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Bill James is against sabermetrics trademark baseball statistical analysis known as sabermetrics, doesn't want the word to be trademarked.
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In sports analytics, sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. Sabermetricians collect and summarize the relevant data from this in-game activity to answer specific questions. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research, founded in 1971. The term "sabermetrics" was coined by Bill James, who is one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face.
August 19, 2023