Bill James
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United StatesBorn 1949 · age 76George William James 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.
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I didn't care about the statistics in anything else.
1985 Baseball Abstract
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
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There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.
The Mind of Bill James, 2006, p. 191
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George William James 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. His approach, which he named sabermetrics after the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), scientifically analyzes and studies baseball, often through the use of statistical data, in an attempt to determine why teams win and lose.
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