Sherri Nichols

Sherri Nichols is an American software engineer, data scientist, and baseball statistician most known for her contribution to baseball's Sabermetrics movement. Growing up loving baseball and math, Nichols fused the two passions together to start analyzing baseball in a stats-driven manner. She was able to bond with her father and brother through her admiration for baseball. Along with baseball, she had a love for math and science.

Career highlights and achievements

Nichols' Law of Catcher Defense: "A catcher's defensive reputation in baseball is inversely proportional to their offensive abilities." Nichols came to this conclusion after seeing baseball players such as Mickey Tettleton being regarded as bad defensive players, even though they were previously known to be excellent defensive catchers, solely because they became better hitters. The file system is still regarded as the largest system ever built and has been used by over 100,000 companies across the world.