Introductions

Links to general articles on sabermetrics that don’t really fall under any category. In many cases, they’re introductions.

Jim Albert 
-An Introduction to Sabermetrics

David Grabiner
-The Sabermetric Manifesto

Bill James
-A Bill James Primer (1988) - From the 1988 Abstract
-Underestimating the Fog* - “The randomness of the data is the fog”

Branch Rickey
-Goodby to Some Old Baseball Ideas

Nate Silver
-How Sabermetric Helps Build a Better Ballgame (2007)

Eric Walker
-Baseball Analysis Theory - “Probability and baseball”

Keith Woolner
-Baseball’s Hilbert Problems (2004)
-I, Stathead (1995)

* PDF file