Example Sentences

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He warned of the “Plexiglas Principle,” an idea introduced by baseball sabermetrician Bill James which states that, for any number of reasons, units that experienced massive year-to-year improvement tend to decline the following season.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2021

Gennaro, the sabermetrician, is trying to adapt the Black-Scholes Option Pricing model to value aging stars.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 24, 2014

Russell Carleton, a sabermetrician and regular contributor to Baseball Prospectus, concedes that Clauset’s work lends credence to the xkcd comic that suggests team sports are just fancy random number generators.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2014

You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a sabermetrician to see this!

From Chicago Tribune • Jun. 3, 2013

Hoban, who writes for the Seamheads.com blog, has adapted the sabermetrician Bill James’s Win Shares formula to examine the full careers of major leaguers.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2011