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"Sabermetrics" is a term used by present-day baseball researchers to denote the study of baseball statistics. |
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"Sabermetrics" is a term used by present-day baseball researchers for the analysis of baseball thorough baseball statistics. |
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Sabermetricians call into question traditional measures of baseball skill. For instance, batting average is considered to be a statistic of limited usefulness because it turns out to be a poor predictor of a team's ability to score runs. The reasoning goes that runs win ballgames, and so a good measure of a player's worth is his/her ability to help his/her team score more runs than the opposing team. Sabermetric measures, such as Bill James's Runs Created or Pete Palmer's Total Player Rating are usually phrased in terms of either runs or team wins; a player might be described as being worth 54 runs more than an average player, for example. |
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Sabermetricians call into question traditional measures of baseball skill. For instance, batting average is considered to be a statistic of limited usefulness because it turns out to be a poor predictor of a team's ability to score runs. Typical sabermetric reasoning would say that runs win ballgames, and so a good measure of a player's worth is his/her ability to help his/her team score more runs than the opposing team. Accordingly, sabermetric measures, such as Bill James's Runs Created or Pete Palmer's Total Player Rating are usually phrased in terms of either runs or team wins; a player might be described as being worth 54 runs more than an average player at the same position over the course of a full season, for example. |
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: Bill James's Historical Baseball Abstract (1985, 1987, and new edition forthcoming) : the SABR web site: http://www.sabr.org |
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: Bill James's Historical Baseball Abstract (1985, 1987, and new 2001 edition) : the SABR web site: http://www.sabr.org |
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