stathead

plural statheads

1. slangA person with a keen interest in statistics, particularly in sport.

   The field of so-called bracketology has attracted mathematicians and statheads who endlessly tweak predictive models, researching new ways to gain any small edge.

   2023 March 12, Andrew Keh, “The Impossible Allure of the Perfect Bracket”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

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   Whether coincidence or not, this overlap was widely noted, and it is now standard practice for baseball teams to hire a flock of statheads and use their analyses to help make decisions on and off the field. […] But only recently have a few teams begun to hire a new breed of stathead to scrutinize every conceivable variable.

   2008 May 4, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, “Hoop Data Dreams”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2021

   Synonyms: statto