Sentences with word «sabermetrics»

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Baseball fans know that Bill James is the godfather of sabermetrics in baseball.

This comes up now because if a manager is going to be convinced by a study from 1939, when it was illegal to leave the house without a hat, he's definitely going to be hip to the new sabermetric orthodoxy that suggests that it's perilous for a starting pitcher to take a third turn through the starting lineup.

Attempting to draw conclusions from the Series» five - game sample size would rightfully get you jailed for sabermetric high crimes.

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SB Nation About Blog A saber - slanted baseball community, Beyond the Box Score is the place for intelligent baseball commentary and cutting - edge sabermetric analysis.

He was the first author to develop sabermetric applications for fantasy play.

Hitting theaters is an adaptation of Michael Lewis» non-fiction book Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt as manager Billy Beane of the Oakland A's baseball team, trying to reinvent the way baseball is played using sabermetrics.

I do believe that the lack of interest has little to do with sabermetrics, which is why I only devoted a paragraph to it.

Such decisions based on sabermetrics contributed to the Athletics» making it to the playoffs in 2002 and 2003.

Indeed, as an adaptation of Michael Lewis» non-fiction best seller of the same name, it's also literally about a winning formula, or more accurately, the various statistical formulas collectively known as sabermetrics, a system designed to maximize budgetary efficiency in assembling productive professional baseball franchises.

While the more serious - minded «Moneyball» focused on the true story of how sabermetrics changed the way baseball teams assess players, the fictional «Draft Day» ultimately is about the way in which character can prevail over combine figures during one of the biggest events on the National Football League's calendar.

And like their American counterparts, many Cuban fans were introduced to sabermetrics by the film version of Michael Lewis's Moneyball.

In his spare time, Heramb is an avid baseball enthusiast and sabermetrics hobbyist.

I'm an old guy, not much into sabermetrics, but disagree big time with «For a major league player, K's don't really matter at all.»

One of the key changes in the game in the last 20 years — paralleling the rise of sabermetric influence — is that teams are less willing to pay players merely for experience.

Avid baseball fan, initially scoffing at but eventually embracing sabermetrics for the analytical attempts at qualifying player values beyond the kind of conclusions that asinine arguments at bars could come up with.

But soon, in part due to their relative isolation, they began to think more freely and separate themselves from what they refer to as «traditional sabermetrics.»

For example, the GIIB believes that the greatest blind spot in American sabermetrics is the tendency to ascribe success in short, high - pressure series to luck.

He credits sabermetrics with giving him a better understanding of his players» strengths and weaknesses, helping him construct smarter lineups and make better - informed substitutions late in games.

Aldama is cofounder and vice president of the Independent Group for Baseball Investigation (GIIB), Cuba's first official sabermetric organization.

Vargas believes sabermetrics will catch on in Cuba.

Well, in the grand sabermetric tradition of taking something fun and ruining it for everyone, I'm here to tell you that it's not true.

Lewis» book burnishes a story that might have been dismissed as a formulaic underdog tale, like a high - toned Major League, and Beane's tortured route from big - league flameout as a player to sabermetric visionary as a general manager gives Pitt more to chew on than just tobacco.

Thanks to the A's success, ALL teams now utilize some form of sabermetrics combined with old fashioned scouting.

Sabermetrics revolutionized baseball by debunking a lot of conventional wisdom.

Becker is also a huge baseball fan who's made a careful study of Michael Lewis's 2004 best - selling book, Moneyball, which tells how Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane used nontraditional statistics, called sabermetrics, to make judgments about players and game strategy.

SB Nation About Blog A saber - slanted baseball community, Beyond the Box Score is the place for intelligent baseball commentary and cutting - edge sabermetric analysis.

SB Nation About Blog A saber - slanted baseball community, Beyond the Box Score is the place for intelligent baseball commentary and cutting - edge sabermetric analysis.

He had been interested in numbers since his playing days, and he had been keeping an eye on sabermetrics.

But it's more that front offices have figured out exactly what they want to spend in large part due to how sabermetrics have influenced their thinking, and they're not willing to move off of their prices and actually seek a player out like they used to.

Ever since Michael Lewis published his now famous novel Moneyball, the baseball community has been enamored with sabermetrics.

Supporting actors include: Chris Pratt («Parks & Recreation») as Scott Hatteberg, poster child for sabermetrics; Robin Wright as Beane's ex-wife; and fantastic writer / director Spike Jonze (came0) as Wright's zenned - out new husband and the polar opposite of Beane.

In 2002, he developed a player evaluating system called PECOTA, which popularized the use of sabermetrics and advanced scouting in baseball (think Moneyball).

The fact that Silver came from the world of baseball sabermetrics — where people like Moneyball star Billy Beane were ignoring conventional wisdom in favour of hard stats — only increased his credibility.

Yeah, about that sabermetric orthodoxy.

That's not what the sabermetric orthodoxy used to be, man.

This was the sabermetric orthodoxy when I started getting deep into baseball in the late «90s.