Bill James

James proposed the creation of Project ScoreBill Jameset a network of fans that would work together to collect and distribute this information. While writers had publiBill Jamesd books about baseball statistics before (most notably Earnshaw Cook's Percentage Baseball in the 1960s) few had ever reached a mass audience. The Player Ratings Book (1993–95) offered statistics and 50-word profiles aimed at the fantasy baseball enthusiast.

His Baseball Abstract books in the 1980s are the modern predecessor to websites using sabermetrics such as Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Primer (now Baseball Think Factory). In 2010 Bill James was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame. George William "Bill" James (born October 5 1949) is an American baseball writer historian and statistician whose work has been widely influential.