What is Cricket Sabermetrics?

In the 1980s, work by Bill James on statistical analysis of Baseball named Sabermetrics gained a major popularity. Sabermetrics is study of the game baseball through scientific and objective analysis. The term was derived from the acronym SABR which stands for Society of American Baseball Research. Recognition of this work led to a revolution in the game of Baseball. Oakland Athletics baseball team went on to set the record for twenty consecutive wins in the 2002 season using Sabermetrics. Many teams and clubs adapted this approach in the following years and got succeeded. Many sports including cricket tend to follow similar approaches in their games after witnessing the transformation of game baseball through sabermetrics and its positive outcomes. 

Nowadays analysis on a particular subject area is often interrelated with data science and machine learning.  Modern Sabermetrics can be defined as application of machine learning in Cricket data.

I recommend to watch critically acclaimed film Moneyball (Starring Brad Pitt) for a fun watch which was based on the true story of Oakland Athletics baseball team. (The film was an adaptation of the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis)


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