Who coined the term 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, James explained that he created the name to honor the acronym of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), while the suffix "-metrics" was added to indicate measurement. He defined the field as the mathematical and statistical analysis of baseball records, or more broadly, as the search for objective knowledge about the game.12