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." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What you are really looking at is the legacy of sabermetrics — the objective study of baseball that emerged in the late 1970s when men such as Bill James and Pete Palmer begin questioning ...

There are a lot of reasons to like social media, but if you’re going to have an argument with someone, that’s not the place for it. Baseball historian/author ...

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 ...