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sabermetrics, n. Baseball.
Brit. |ˌseɪbəˈmɛtrɪks|, U.S. |ˌseɪbərˈmɛtrɪks|
Forms: 19– sabermatrics[irreg.], 19– sabermetrics, 19– sabremetrics, 19– SABRmetrics, 19– sabrmetrics
[‹ sabre n. (after SABR, acronym > comb. form: see -ic suffix Affix 2.]
With sing. concord. The application of statistical analysis to baseball records, esp. in order to evaluate and compare the performance of individual players.
1982B. James Bill James Baseball Abstr. 3/1 Sabermetrics is the mathematical and statistical analysis of baseball records. 1991Rev. in Amer. Hist. 19 114 In the age of Bill James and sabremetrics, Scully's chapters evaluating player performance seem primitive and unsophisticated. 1998Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 Sept. b6 Baseball is as much about sabrmetrics as it is about fanciful imagination. 2003Calgary Herald (Nexis) 19 Oct. d1 The Oakland A's pioneered the use of sabermetrics to recruit players. |