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Sports analytics, the Glossary

Sports analytics are collections of relevant historical statistics that can provide a competitive advantage to a team or individual by helping to inform players, coaches and other staff and help facilitate decision-making both during and prior to sporting events.^[1]

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Applied statistical analysis
Sports records and statistics

Advanced Football Analytics (formerly Advanced NFL Stats) was a website dedicated to the analysis of the National Football League (NFL) using mathematical and statistical methods.

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Analytics (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, analytics is the analysis of the characteristics of hockey players and teams through the use of statistics and other tools to gain a greater understanding of the effects of their performance. Sports analytics and analytics (ice hockey) are applied statistical analysis.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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At bat

In baseball, an at bat (AB) or time at bat is a batter's turn batting against a pitcher.

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Baltimore Orioles

The Baltimore Orioles (also known as the O's) are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore.

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Base on balls

A base on balls (BB), better known as a walk, occurs in baseball when a batter receives four pitches during a plate appearance that the umpire calls balls, and is in turn awarded first base without the possibility of being called out.

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Base running

In baseball, base running is the act of running from base to base, performed by members of the team at bat.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Baseball Prospectus

Baseball Prospectus (BP) is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball.

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Baseball statistics

Baseball statistics include a variety of metrics used to evaluate player and team performance in the sport of baseball. Sports analytics and baseball statistics are sports records and statistics.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.

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Batting average (baseball)

In baseball, batting average (BA) is determined by dividing a player's hits by their total at-bats.

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Bill James

George William James (born October 5, 1949) is an American baseball writer, historian, and statistician whose work has been widely influential.

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Billy Beane

William Lamar Beane III (born March 29, 1962) is an American former professional baseball player and current front office executive.

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Boston Red Sox

The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston.

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Brad Pitt

William Bradley Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer.

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Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks (spelled Black Hawks until 1986, and known colloquially as the Hawks) are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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Clay Davenport

Clay Davenport is a baseball sabermetrician who co-founded Baseball Prospectus (BP) in 1996.

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Cleveland Guardians

The Cleveland Guardians are an American professional baseball team based in Cleveland.

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Computer simulation

Computer simulation is the process of mathematical modelling, performed on a computer, which is designed to predict the behaviour of, or the outcome of, a real-world or physical system.

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Corsi (statistic)

Corsi is an advanced statistic used in the game of ice hockey to measure shot attempt differential while at even strength play.

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Curse of the Bambino

The Curse of the Bambino was a superstitious sports curse in Major League Baseball (MLB) derived from the 86-year championship drought of the Boston Red Sox between and.

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Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor.

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Daryl Morey

Daryl Morey (born September 14, 1972) is an American basketball executive who is the president of basketball operations of the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Davey Johnson

David Allen Johnson (born January 30, 1943) is an American former professional baseball player and manager.

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DBase

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Double (baseball)

In baseball, a double is the act of a batter striking the pitched ball and safely reaching second base without being called out by the umpire, without the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) or another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.

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A down is a period in which a play transpires in gridiron football.

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Earnshaw Cook

Earnshaw Cook (March 28, 1900 – November 11, 1987) was an American early researcher and proponent of sabermetrics, the analysis of baseball through statistical means.

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Equivalent average

Equivalent Average (EqA) is a baseball metric invented by Clay Davenport and intended to express the production of hitters in a context independent of park and league effects.

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Fantasy football is a game in which the participants serve as owners and general managers of virtual gridiron football teams.

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Football Outsiders (FO) was a website started in July 2003 which focused on advanced statistical analysis of the National Football League (NFL).

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Fortran

Fortran (formerly FORTRAN) is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

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Frank McGuire

Frank Joseph McGuire (November 8, 1913 – October 11, 1994) was an American basketball coach.

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General manager (baseball)

In Major League Baseball, the general manager (GM) of a team typically controls player transactions and bears the primary responsibility on behalf of the ballclub during contract discussions with players.

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Grantland

Grantland was a sports and pop-culture blog owned and operated by ESPN.

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Hit (baseball)

In baseball statistics, a hit (denoted by H), also called a base hit, is credited to a batter when the batter safely reaches or passes first base after hitting the ball into fair territory with neither the benefit of an error nor a fielder's choice.

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Hit by pitch

In baseball, hit by pitch (HBP) is an event in which a batter or his clothing or equipment (other than his bat) is struck directly by a pitch from the pitcher; the batter is called a hit batsman (HB).

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Home run

In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.

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Houston Astros

The Houston Astros are an American professional baseball team based in Houston.

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Houston Rockets

The Houston Rockets are an American professional basketball team based in Houston.

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Infield shift

The infield shift in baseball is a defensive realignment from the standard positions, to place more fielders on one side of the field or another.

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J1 League

The, the J.League or the for sponsorship reasons, is the top level of the system.

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John Hollinger

John Hollinger (born May 17, 1971) is the former Vice President of Basketball Operations for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and current Senior NBA columnist at The Athletic.

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John W. Henry

John William Henry II (born September 13, 1949) is an American businessman and the founder of John W. Henry & Company, an investment management firm.

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Kyle Dubas

Kyle Benjamin Dubas (born November 29, 1985) is a Canadian ice hockey executive who is the current president of hockey operations and general manager for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Memphis Grizzlies

The Memphis Grizzlies (referred to locally as the Grizz) are an American professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Moneyball (film)

Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama film that was directed by Bennett Miller with a script by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin from a story by Stan Chervin.

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Nagoya University

, abbreviated to or NU, is a Japanese national research university located in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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New York Mets

The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens.

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NumberFire

numberFire is a privately held company that offers statistical analysis of data around sporting events and sports fans, targeting fantasy sports players, digital media, writers, teams, and leagues.

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Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics (often referred to as the Oakland A's) are an American professional baseball team based in Oakland, California.

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On-base percentage

In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) measures how frequently a batter reaches base.

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PGA Tour

The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America.

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Podcast

A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.

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Pro Football Focus (also written as ProFootballFocus, and often referred to by its initials, PFF) is a sports analytics company that focuses on thorough analysis of the National Football League (NFL) and NCAA Division-I football in the United States.

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Revolutions per minute

Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or r⋅min−1) is a unit of rotational speed (or rotational frequency) for rotating machines.

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Running back

A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football.

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Sabermetrics

Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity.

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San Antonio Spurs

The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio.

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Slugging percentage

In baseball statistics, slugging percentage (SLG) is a measure of the batting productivity of a hitter.

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Society for American Baseball Research

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) is a membership organization dedicated to fostering the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, primarily through the use of statistics.

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Speed Score

Speed Score, often simply abbreviated to Spd, is a statistic used in Sabermetric studies to evaluate a baseball player's speed.

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Sports betting

Sports betting is the activity of predicting sports results and placing a wager on the outcome.

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Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated (SI) is an American sports magazine first published in August 1954.

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Sports rating system

A sports rating system is a system that analyzes the results of sports competitions to provide ratings for each team or player. Sports analytics and sports rating system are sports records and statistics.

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Sports Reference

Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro-Football-Reference.com for American football, and FBref.com for association football (soccer). Sports analytics and sports Reference are sports records and statistics.

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Sports strategy

Sports strategy refers to the numerous sets of methods applied in various sports in order to find ways and create advantageous methods for achieving an outcome of success.

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SportVU

SportVU is a camera system that collects data 25 times per second.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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Statistical database

A statistical database is a database used for statistical analysis purposes.

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Strike zone

In baseball, the strike zone is the volume of space through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike even if the batter does not swing.

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The New York Times Best Seller list

The New York Times Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States.

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Theo Epstein

Theodore Nathaniel Epstein (born December 29, 1973) is an American Major League Baseball executive who is, since 2024, the senior adviser and part-owner of Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball and Liverpool FC of the English Premier League, among other properties.

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Three-point field goal

A three-point field goal (also 3-pointer, home run, three, triple, or trey) is a field goal in a basketball game made from beyond the three-point line, a designated arc surrounding the basket.

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Toronto Maple Leafs

The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club and often referred to as the Leafs) are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto.

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Triple (baseball)

In baseball, a triple is the act of a batter safely reaching third base after hitting the ball, with neither the benefit of a fielder's misplay (see error) nor another runner being put out on a fielder's choice.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Value over replacement player

In baseball, value over replacement player (or VORP) is a statistic popularized by Keith Woolner that demonstrates how much a hitter or pitcher contributes to their team in comparison to a replacement-level player who is an average fielder at that position and a below average hitter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_analytics

Also known as Advanced metrics, Advanced statistics, Analytics in sports, Sports statistics.

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Sports analytics, the Glossary

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Applied statistical analysis

Sports records and statistics

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