Nate Silver is Executive Vice-President of Baseball Prospectus. He is best known for inventing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of minor league and major league baseball players. Since 2003 he has also written a weekly column for Baseball Prospectus.com[1] under the heading "Lies, Damned Lies," in which he applies sabermetric techniques to a broad range of topics in baseball research -- from evaluating and forecasting the performance of individual players, to the economics of the baseball business, to developing metrics for the valuation of players in the marketplace, and to many other topics. He is also a co-author of the Baseball Prospectus (ISBN 0761139958) annual book of Major League Baseball analysis and forecasts as well as other books published by Baseball Prospectus. He has been an occasional contributor to ESPN.com, Sports Illustrated, Slate, and the New York Sun. Baseball Prospectus, sometimes abbreviated as BP, is a think-tank focusing on the statistical analysis of the sport of baseball, which is also known as sabermetrics. ... Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. ... Valuation can mean: Valuation (finance) Valuation (mathematics) This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in the world. ... ESPN, an abbreviation of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Matthews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ... Slate Slate is a fine-grained, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low grade regional metamorphism. ... The modern New York Sun is a daily newspaper published at New York City which debuted April 16, 2002. ...

In 2000, Silver graduated from the University of Chicago, where he studied economics. Prior to that he was the 1996 winner of the John S. Knight high school debate championship in the State of Michigan.