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sabermetrician
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sabermetrician

Nickname for a statistician who uses computers to predict future performance of sports teams and players.



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Not too long ago, a group of bright young sportswriters (mostly baseball people) began experimenting with the dots, dashes, and percentages, and came up with a new kind of statistics called sabermetrics.
The information that sabermetrics offers is too valuable to be ignored completely, however, and in the past few years it has had a powerful impact, both on and off the field.
Ricciardi is a former protege of Beane), both suggested that sabermetrics has helped transform their team into the "White Jays"--a bunch of boring, slow-footed Caucasians good mainly for drawing walks and hitting home runs.
 
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