What is Sabermetrics?
The term is thrown around often but what does it actually mean? In 1980, Bill James defined Sabermetrics as “the search for objective knowledge about baseball.” At the root of Sabermetrics is “Saber” which is a reference to the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
The key word of all of this, however, is objective. The definition is straight-forward: “a judgment that is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions when considering and representing facts”. However, the problem is that in most arguments, the participants are actually being more subjective - influenced by personal feelings or opinions - than objective without ever realizing it.