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The Sabermetric Bias
- Bud 15y agoThis author seems confused. Sabermetrics refers only to baseball statistics. It's improper to use the term to refer generally to all sports statistics. In addition, generalizing from baseball to other sports and then back to baseball ignores the fact that baseball statistics are much more valuable and telling than those in other sports, for various reasons, the most significant of which is that batting and pitching stats represent a large number of discrete events involving only two players and influenced only to a relatively minor degree by actions of other players. This isn't true for stats in any other sport.