statheads

They mentioned the growing popularity of sabermetricians or what they called "statheads", arguing that it doesn't matter how much a batter strikeouts, but how many extra bases they hit or have a high on-base percentage.

Major League Baseball 2009

Pianowski, if you are deriding "statheads," there is NO REASON you should be one of the people contributing to this article.

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Pianowski, if you are deriding "statheads," there is NO REASON you should be one of the people contributing to this article.

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Perhaps one of the reasons statheads, or lovers of empirically measurable sports, aren't always enamored of soccer is that a single incident over the course of a 90-minute game can have an outsized influence on its eventual outcome.

The Magical Mystery Behind Manchester's London Double Gabriele Marcotti 2012

OK, Indians, you're not fooling the statheads this year.

Jonah Keri: 2010 MLB Predictions 2010

OK, Indians, you're not fooling the statheads this year.

2010 MLB Predictions 2010

Baseball fans (or at least Baseball Prospectus statheads) appear to be grouped, as you might expect, in the East and Midwest, and, even less surprisingly, the only part of the country where the Sports Illustrated New York Giants Super Bowl Commemorative Edition made the top 10 was, yes, the East (it didn't even make the top 500 in the West or the Midwest).

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There's also a rabid community of statheads and fantasy players addicted to news and rumors of the diamond.

Covering All the Online Bases 2007

The scorecard was once more than a hobby for statheads; it was the only way you knew the score.

WHY is the FOUL POLE FAIR? VINCE STATEN 2003

Like a lot of statheads (Law, Kahrl, Malcolm, Cameron, McCracken, etc), I cut my teeth on usenet in its prime.

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