Meanings
sabermetrics1
alternative Sabermetrics · alternative SABRmetrics · alternative sabrmetrics
- USuncountableThe analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics.
By the early 1990s it was clear that “sabermetrics,” the search for new baseball knowledge, was an activity that would take place mainly outside of baseball.
2003, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 1641 more example
More recently, specialists like him have had to fend off a new threat: sabermetrics. Baseball has always been a game obsessed with numbers. But sabermetrics, a term coined in 1980 by statistician Bill James in honor of the Society for American Baseball Research, strives to use every available technology to study baseball empirically—its players, its strategies, the statistics themselves.
2014 October 1, Randy Leonard, “Baseball’s Long and Complicated Relationship With the Bunt”, in The Atlantic
Sabermetrics2
- uncountableAlternative letter-case form of sabermetrics.
Origin
Coined by Bill James in 1980, from SABR (“Society for American Baseball Research”) + metrics.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 賽伯計量學 /赛伯计量学
- 賽伯計量學 /赛伯计量学 (sàibójìliàngxué)analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
French sabermétrie
- sabermétrieanalysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
Italian sabermetrica
- sabermetricaanalysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
Japanese セイバーメトリクス
- セイバーメトリクス (seibāmetorikusu)analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
Korean 세이버메트릭스
- 세이버메트릭스 (seibeometeurikseu)analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
Russian саберме́трика
- саберме́трика (sabermétrika)analysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
Spanish sabermetríca
- sabermetrícaanalysis of baseball, especially via its statistics
Cite this entry
sabermetrics. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sabermetrics
“sabermetrics.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sabermetrics. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sabermetrics,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sabermetrics.
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