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What role did the Society for American Baseball Research play in the name sabermetrics?

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Green retro manual baseball scoreboard beyond an empty, neatly mowed baseball field with brown infield dirt and striped grass outfield. — Sabermetrics A scoreboard provides some – but not necessarily the most useful – data on player and team performances in baseball.

The term "sabermetrics" was coined by baseball historian and statistician Bill James in 1980 to describe the mathematical and statistical analysis of baseball records.12

The name is a portmanteau that directly incorporates the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) as its foundation. James explained that he chose the name to honor the acronym of the society, while the suffix "-metrics" was added to signify the act of measurement. By combining these elements, the term reflects the organization's role in fostering the objective study of the game through data.132