stathead — Dizionario inglese

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1. A person with a keen interest in statistics, particularly in sport.

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   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.

   The field of so-called bracketology has attracted mathematicians and statheads who endlessly tweak predictive models, researching new ways to gain any small edge.