Meaning of sabermetrics | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics.
   US, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of sabermetrics.
   alt-of, uncountable

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Examples

“By the early 1990s it was clear that “sabermetrics,” the search⟳ for new baseball knowledge, was an activity that would take⟳ place⟳ mainly outside of baseball.”

“More recently, specialists like⟳ him have⟳ had to fend off a new threat: sabermetrics. Baseball has always been a game obsessed with numbers. But sabermetrics, a term coined in 1980 by statistician Bill James in honor of the Society for American Baseball Research⟳, strives to use⟳ every available technology to study⟳ baseball empirically—its players, its strategies, the statistics themselves.”

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