Sabermetrics

What is sabermetrics?

-Sabermetrics is the application of statistical analysis to baseball records, especially in order to evaluate and compare the performance of individual players. The duties of the jobs While in the 1970’s and 80’s these analysts had little or no access to computers, the explosion of personal computers in the 1990’s opened up many new doors to those who wanted to use math and statistics to analyze the game of baseball. Therefore, baseball analysts have turned to computing languages to store and analyze their data sets.

Where would you work?

-The places you could work at would be professional sports teams mainly baseball, but basketball teams are starting to use sabermetrics more and you can find jobs there too.

What would you do in this profession?

-If you have a strong understand of the game as well as a solid background in coding, you will be able to put together a program that will help front offices make better decisions more efficiently by using stsistics.

What is the job demand?

-The job demand for this is growing because more sports teams are adopting Sabermetrics and need more people to manage their statistcs.

Salary

-Sabermetricians, at salaries ranging from $30,000 to $125,000