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George William James (born October 5, 1949) [ 1][ 2] is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential. Since 1977, James has written more than two dozen books about baseball history and statistics.
Bill James (1949- ) is the best known baseball analyst in the world, and he has been a prolific author (Baseball Abstracts, Historical Abstract, Handbook and many other works).
Sep 26, 2011 · Bill James was working at a Kansas cannery when he came up with an idea that would transform baseball. The movie Moneyball tells the story of that idea and how the Oakland...
Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Bill James. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com.
Oct 24, 2019 · That's because on Thursday Bill James announced his retirement from the team. A longtime writer and analyst, James had worked for the Red Sox for nearly two decades.
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The Basics. Sabermetrics was first introduced to a wide public in 1982, with the first mass-market publication of the Bill James Baseball Abstract. And for my generation of sabermetricians of a certain age, this was the very first sentence about sabermetrics that we ever read:
Jul 26, 2020 · Back in the 1950s and ‘60s, Bill James grew up in a small town in Kansas that wasn’t particularly geographically close to any major league baseball stadium. But the adult Bill James, known to many as “the father of sabermetrics,” became a baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose influence on the way the game is both ...
Aug 31, 2023 · It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern game of baseball without the contributions of Bill James. The longtime Lawrence resident and KU grad is a pioneer in the field of Sabermetrics, a word that James coined based on the acronym for the Society of American Baseball Research.
Bill James, who coined the term "sabermetrics" Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity.
