sabermetric
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- adjective
- /ˌseɪbərˈmɛtrɪk/
- Jargon
- Perhaps he's assuming that his opinion means more because he watched the team every day and I/we/the sabermetric nerds didn't; we're just looking at numbers.
Examples
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Moneyball can tell you that stolen bases are largely overrated in the sabermetric world.
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There is still some sense left in baseball, where the sabermetric guys are attempting to overtake the sport.
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I think my interest in developing a sabermetric understanding of baseball offers a similar feeling of satisfaction.
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The Angels are going sabermetric and finally entering the current era of baseball.
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Isn't sabermetric analysis of strategy great?
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What's worse, many of those signings at least looked good on sabermetric paper at the time.
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It simply placed a greater weight on offense and factored in the sabermetric bogeyman known as intangibles.
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Because of that, Silver going 50-for-50 has to be considered the single biggest victory of the sabermetric era, easily edging out Felix Hernandez's 2010 Cy Young Award win.
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To me, the beauty of baseball lies in its details—in its history—not in today's sabermetric formulas.
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Baseball analysts rely heavily on sabermetric methods to evaluate player performance.
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Etymology
Sabermetric comes from the baseball group name SABR, short for the Society for American Baseball Research, combined with metric, which means 'measure' like in meter. So, sabermetric is about using measured numbers to study and judge baseball performance.