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baseball, but the box score finally admits batting average was lying to you.
means the statistical analysis of baseball data to figure out what actually wins games, as opposed to what looks good on a trading card.
from named by bill james in 1980 after saber, the society for american baseball research, founded in 1971 by stat nerds who suspected the sport's sacred numbers were mostly superstition.
acronym originsaber comes from a research society, not swords
rbi skepticismjames argued rbi mostly measures your teammates, not you
hollywood cameomoneyball made war and obp box office in 2011
stat inflationmodern versions track spin rate and exit velocity
for instance
billy beane oakland — 2002 as built a playoff team on a walks-and-obp budget
bill james abstracts — self-published annuals in the late 1970s started the whole revolt
statcast system — mlb's 2015 tracking tech turned every pitch into a data set