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  • noun US A baseball statistician; one who studies sabermetrics

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  • Silver is a sabermetrician, which is to say that he began his public life as an analyst for the brilliant Baseball Prospectus years before he brought his statistical nous to politics.

    England are Third Best Football Team in the World, Boffins Say! 2009

  • Silver is a sabermetrician, which is to say that he began his public life as an analyst for the brilliant Baseball Prospectus years before he brought his statistical nous to politics.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • What kind of sabermetrician would I be if I didn't?

    The Hardball Times 2010

  • He's like an NFL coordinator with a touch of the baseball sabermetrician thrown in.

    Unraveling Soccer's Mysteries Joshua Robinson 2011

  • Anyone who learned about the game by reading Bill James and later consuming books like the annual Baseball Prospectus preview to which Mr. Keri was a longtime contributor has surely rued one odd effect of the triumph of their work within the sport: It seems that every time a sabermetrician does something really original, he is hired on by a team, with his work soon receiving a big stamp reading "proprietary" on it.

    The Religion of Prediction Tim Marchman 2011

  • To put the effect of cold weather to a test, baseball sabermetrician Sean Kelly measured hundreds of thousands of batted-ball trajectories under various temperatures as part of a study on how Target Field will influence run scoring.

    Twins Hitters, Meet the Elements Michael Salfino 2010

  • To put the effect of cold weather to a test, baseball sabermetrician Sean Kelly measured hundreds of thousands of batted-ball trajectories under various temperatures as part of a study on how Target Field will influence run scoring.

    Twins Hitters, Meet the Elements Michael Salfino 2010

  • But physicist and baseball sabermetrician Alan Nathan of the University of Illinois thinks speed is less consequential to Mr. Dickey's hot start.

    Why Dickey (and Not Wakefield) Is Baffling Baseball 2010

  • To put the effect of cold weather to a test, baseball sabermetrician Sean Kelly measured hundreds of thousands of batted-ball trajectories under various temperatures as part of a study on how Target Field will influence run scoring.

    Twins Hitters, Meet the Elements Michael Salfino 2010

  • I've said it before and I'll say it again: never doubt a sabermetrician.

    Grading The National Polls: Rasmussen In First, Gallup And Zogby Last 2009

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