sabermetrics
noun, plural in form but singular in constructionDefinition of sabermetrics
: detailed statistical analysis of baseball data (as for the purposes of evaluating player performance and developing playing strategies)
Baseball has always been a game of statistics, but sabermetrics posits that traditional measures like batting average and runs batted in are of limited use in predicting whether a player can actually help win ball games.— William C. Symonds
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The first known use of sabermetrics was in 1982
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