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Sabermetrics (originally SABRmetrics) is the original or blanket term for sports analytics, the empirical analysis of baseball, especially the development of advanced metrics based on baseball statistics that measure in-game activity. The term is derived from the movement's progenitors, members of the Society for American Baseball Research ...
Richard Max Leach (born May 4, 1957) is an American former college football player and professional baseball player.. Leach was an all-state quarterback at Flint Southwestern High School in the fall of 1974, and the University of Michigan's starting quarterback in four consecutive seasons (1975–1978), leading the Wolverines to three straight Big Ten Conference championships and three ...
Ken Stabler. Kenneth Michael Stabler (December 25, 1945 – July 8, 2015) was an American professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 17 seasons, primarily with the Oakland Raiders. Nicknamed " Snake ", he played college football at Alabama and was selected by the Raiders in the second round of the ...
Vote. 79.7% (sixth ballot) Todd Lynn Helton (born August 20, 1973) is an American former professional baseball first baseman who played his entire 17-year career for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). A five-time All-Star, four-time Silver Slugger, and three-time Gold Glove Award winner, Helton holds the Rockies' club records ...
Warren Moon. Harold Warren Moon (born November 18, 1956) is an American former football quarterback who played professionally for 23 seasons. He spent the majority of his career with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL) and the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Moon also played for the NFL's Minnesota ...
On-base plus slugging (OPS) is a sabermetric baseball statistic calculated as the sum of a player's on-base percentage and slugging percentage. [1] The ability of a player both to get on base and to hit for power, two important offensive skills, are represented. An OPS of .800 or higher in Major League Baseball puts the player in the upper ...
Vote. 77.5% (first ballot) Jack Roosevelt Robinson(January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseballplayer who became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball(MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the color linewhen he started at first basefor the Brooklyn Dodgerson April 15, 1947.
George Frederick Blanda (September 17, 1927 – September 27, 2010) was an American professional football quarterback and placekicker who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). Blanda played 26 seasons of professional football, the most in the sport's history, and had scored more points than anyone in ...