Baseball Lover: Sabermetrics

Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective, empirical evidence, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity rather than industry activity such as attendance. The term is derived from the acronym SABR, which stands for the Society for American Baseball Research. It was coined by Bill James, who was one of its pioneers and is often considered its most prominent advocate and public face

Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James

As you know, Baseball is a sport of records.

During the game, player's all play like strike, ball, foul ball, out, everything is recorded.

If this records are saved and piled more and more over three to four years, they will be a trust-worthy data.

Sabermetrics is just it and sabermetricians want to evaluate players through the data.

Bill James is the most famous sabermetrician.

These days, the data is used as a important evidence for negotiating player's salary.

The Sabermetric Manifesto by David Grabiner (1994) begins:

Bill James defined sabermetrics as "the search for objective knowledge about baseball." Thus, sabermetrics attempts to answer objective questions about baseball, such as "which player on the Red Sox contributed the most to the team's offense?" or "How many home runs will Ken Griffey hit next year?" It cannot deal with the subjective judgments which are also important to the game, such as "Who is your favorite player?" or "That was a great game."