Sabermetrics Quotes

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players. (Douglas Rushkoff)
Woody Allen says at the end of Annie Hall that we're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's so difficult in real life [...] if we can accept Allen's as a definition of art, then sabermetrics is absolutely an art. And, just as Kalkman notes, it's an art whose practitioners are bent on seeing justice done - in baseball, if nowhere else. View quote
Carson Cistulli