sabermetrics
noun
the computerized measurement of baseball statistics.
sabermetrician
-
a word derived from
sabermetrics.
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
