Bill James, the sabermetrics pioneer who authored the widely influential “Baseball Abstract” books in the 1980s, took to X on Tuesday to discuss the state of sports, focusing on the analytics ...

CONAN: We're talking with Bill James, the father of sabermetrics, now a senior adviser to the Boston Red Sox. His latest book is "Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence." ...

Nobody understands sabermetrics more than Bill James. After all, the baseball historian and longtime senior adviser to the Boston Red Sox coined the term more than 35 years ago. With the 86th ...

The latest there comes from noted early sabermetrics figure Bill James, but it comes with wider implications. First, though, let’s discuss James, who took a lot of criticism Tuesday and ...

Advanced statistics or “sabermetrics” such as FIP, WAR, OPS, BABIP, and UZR have become as common in baseball as RBI and ERA. People like Bill James have written books on top of books on the ...

Bill James, the famous baseball writer who is credited with developing sabermetrics, and his daughter, Rachel McCarthy James, may have identified the person responsible for brutally murdering ...

Over at the new sports website Grantland, Chuck Klosterman interviews the godfather of sabermetrics, Bill James. Not about baseball, but about crime, the subject of James' new book Popular Crime ...

BOSTONBOSTON — Bill James, the father of the baseball statistical analysis known as sabermetrics, doesn’t want the word to be trademarked. In fact, he doesn’t think it can be. James said ...

SABR said ``sabermetrics'' was coined by statistician Bill James in 1980. ``The intent to use the term `sabermetrics' was solely to describe our approach to evaluating engagement within social ...

That's because on Thursday Bill James announced his retirement ... a return to a more analytical approach. It was James who coined the phrase "sabermetrics," and who helped usher in a new way ...