sabermetrics

English

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

sabermetrics (uncountable)

(US) The analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics.
- 2003, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 164:
  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.
- 2014 October 1, Randy Leonard, “Baseball’s Long and Complicated Relationship With the Bunt”, in The Atlantic‎:
  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.

analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics