单词 | sabermetrics |
释义 | sabermetricsnoun sa·ber·met·rics ˌsā-bər-ˈme-triks plural in form but singular in construction : detailed statistical analysis of baseball data (as for the purposes of evaluating player performance and developing playing strategies) Baseball has always been a game of statistics, but sabermetrics posits that traditional measures like batting average and runs batted in are of limited use in predicting whether a player can actually help win ball games. William C. Symonds sabermetric ˌsā-bər-ˈme-trik adjective Sabermetric studies have shown that a team's record in close games isn't necessarily connected to its overall quality—sometimes the performance can be summed up as luck. John Heyman sabermetrically ˌsā-bər-ˈme-tri-k(ə-)lē adverb "… it's a different method of approaching the game sabermetrically and numerically." Joe Maddon sabermetrician ˌsā-bər-mə-ˈtri-shən noun plural sabermetricians In part, these changes are being brought about by the increasing influence of a creative new breed of statisticians, members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). These sabermetricians, as they call themselves, have been manipulating the raw data of baseball—hits, runs, outs, errors—in ways that cast new light on the game on the field. Joe Klein |
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