Sabermetrics for the media: How I’d recruit a team of columnists and reporters that would out-perform every national newspaper.
Check the stats. Make the changes. Call the plays.
Sabermetrics (n.)
… an empirical analysis of baseball, especially baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. Sabermetricans collect and summarise the relevant data from in-game activity to answer specific questions like which players to acquire and what positions to play them in. If you’ve seen the film Moneyball, you know about Sabermetrics.
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