stathead
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stathead (plural statheads)
- (slang) A person with a keen interest in statistics, particularly in sport.
- 2008 May 4, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, “Hoop Data Dreams”, in The New York Times Magazine[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 February 2021:
- Whether coincidence or not, this overlap was widely noted, and it is now standard practice for baseball teams to hire a flock of statheads and use their analyses to help make decisions on and off the field. […] But only recently have a few teams begun to hire a new breed of stathead to scrutinize every conceivable variable.
- 2023 March 12, Andrew Keh, “The Impossible Allure of the Perfect Bracket”, in The New York Times[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 March 2023:
- The field of so-called bracketology has attracted mathematicians and statheads who endlessly tweak predictive models, researching new ways to gain any small edge.
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