Sabermetric's Goal

To study the game and find relationships between actions on the field and the outcomes they produce.
Sabermetrics resembles sociology or psychology instead of physics and chemistry. It is difficult to perform experiments, but you can observe and analyze what has happened.
Sabermetrics is interested in long-term behavior. Can't explain much about a single game or a short series. For example, just because not bunting fails in a particular game doesn't mean it was a bad strategy.
Don't assume that the standard ideas are correct. Bill James said that most of his findings came from checking on what sportswriters said.

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