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- noun slang A person with a keen interest in
statistics , particularly insport .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Rich: I can't help but be amused by the fact that a so-called stathead like you loves the stories of the game as much or more than the next guy.
Baseball Analysts 2009
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Rich: I can't help but be amused by the fact that a so-called stathead like you loves the stories of the game as much or more than the next guy.
Baseball Analysts 2009
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Throughout this time, however, Towers has made decisions that fit the "stathead" model.
The Hardball Times 2009
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Heck, I†™ ll still watch the games anyway, lest I be accused (again) of being a "stathead" who has never actually watched a game in his life.
The Hardball Times Mitchel Lichtman 2008
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Weiland is quick to point out he wasn't the only stathead to take an early interest in Lin, and adds that he's made plenty of head-slapping mistakes, like badly shortchanging Blazers forward LaMarcus Aldridge.
The Delivery Guy Who Saw Jeremy Lin Coming Jason Gay 2012
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I had been a pretty serious stathead for several years at the time when Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game — one of the best non-fiction books of the last decade period –came out.
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The poster boy for a pro-scouting/anti-stathead argument not you JMAR – just in general wants to have a computer in his dugout.
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That story got picked up by some baseball sabremetrician stathead blogs, but the rest of the professional media showed no interest whatsoever.
More on NFL discrimination Steve Sailer 2005
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That story got picked up by some baseball sabremetrician stathead blogs, but the rest of the professional media showed no interest whatsoever.
Archive 2005-10-09 Steve Sailer 2005
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But as stathead coach Buzz knows, numbers sometimes lie.
SI.com 2011
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