Related Links

Here are some related links to help you learn more about sabermetrics.

Please note: This list is intended as a guide to help you learn more about sabermetrics. It is not a comprehensive list of all sabermetric sources, of which there are thousands … maybe tens of thousands. Notice any major omissions? Send a note to jpomrenke@sabr.org.

Articles

• “Do Clutch Hitters Exist?” by Dick Cramer (Baseball Research Journal, 1977)
• “He Does It By The Numbers,” by Dan Okrent (Sports Illustrated, May 25, 1981)
• “Introducing Project Scoresheet,” by Bill James (Baseball Analyst, October 1983)
• “Pitching and Defense: How Much Control Do Pitchers Have?” by Voros McCracken (Baseball Prospectus, January 23, 2001)
• “Underestimating the Fog” by Bill James (Baseball Research Journal, 2004)
• “How Sabermetrics Helps Build a Better Ballgame,” by Nate Silver (Baseball Analysts, May 10, 2007)
• “Databases for Sabermetricians,” by Colin Wyers (The Hardball Times, November 24, 2009)
• “The Many Flavors of DIPS: A History and Overview”, by Dan Basco and Michael Davies (Baseball Research Journal, Fall 2010)
• “The Ballad of Bill James,” by Joe Posnanski (Joe Blog, September 2011)
• “The History of Total Baseball and Pete Palmer’s Baseball Database,” by Pete Palmer (SABR.org, April 2, 2015)

Books

• Baseball Between The Numbers: Why Everything You Know About The Game Is Wrong, edited by Jonah Keri (Baseball Prospectus, 2006) 
• Baseball Hacks by Joseph Adler (O’Reiley Media, 2006)
• Beyond Batting Average, by Lee Panas (Lulu, 2010)
• Bill James Baseball Abstracts, by Bill James (self-published, 1977-80; Ballantine, 1981-88)
• The Book, by Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman and Andrew Dolphin (Potomac, 2007)
• The Hidden Game of Baseball, by John Thorn and Pete Palmer (Doubleday, 1984)
• Mathletics, by Wayne Winston (Princeton University Press, 2009)
• Moneyball, by Michael Lewis (Norton, 2004)
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, by Bill James (revised: Free Press, 2003; original: 1985)
• The Numbers Game: Baseball’s Lifelong Fascination With Statistics, by Alan Schwarz (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005)
• Understanding Sabermetrics: An Introduction to the Science of Baseball Statistics, by Gabriel Costa, Michael Huber and John Saccoman (McFarland, 2007)

Publications

• Abstracts from the Abstracts, Rich Lederer’s 12-part series at Baseball Analysts summarizing the original (and hard-to-find) Bill James Abstracts
• Baseball Analyst archives, Bill James’ sabermetrics journal in the 1980s
• Baseball Research Journal archives
• “By The Numbers,” archives of SABR’s Statistical Analysis Committee newsletter

Bibliography

• SABR member Charlie Pavitt maintains a bibliography of academic and journal-published sabermetric research. This version is as of July 8, 2020. Click here for Introduction and Description (.doc) and click here for Bibliography (.xls).

Websites 

• Baseball Analysts
• Baseball Info Solutions
• Baseball Prospectus
• Baseball-Reference.com
• Baseball Think Factory
• Beyond the Box Score
• Bill James Online
• Brooks Baseball
• FanGraphs
• Hardball Times
• InsideTheBook.com
• Lahman Database
• MLB.com
• MLB Statcast Glossary
• Retrosheet.org
• Saber Archive
• Sabermetric Research
• TangoTiger.com