Image 1-3: Series of Baseball AbstractLike this, Bill James created many indicators of baseball, and he was also
the first person to use the word sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is a
compound word between SABR (Society for American Baseball
Research) and metrics. He later admitted that he coined the phrase in
order to honor the SABR. he defined “sabermetrics” as the “Search for
objective knowledge about baseball.^10
// Miracle from Oakland Athletics
The success of Oakland Athletics in the mid-2000s has popularized the
use of sabermetrics, which were only being discussed and shared among
the minority of people who love baseball.^11 From 1999 to 2006, Oakland
Athletics recorded a win percentage of 0.537 for eight seasons, reaching
play-offs in five seasons, and winning 102 and 103 games in the 2001 and