Sabermetrics

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics. US, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of sabermetrics. alt-of, uncountable

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"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."

Etymology

Coined by Bill James in 1980, from SABR (“Society for American Baseball Research”) + metrics.

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