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Saturday, February 04, 2012
By , 06:48 PM
I downloaded Bill James Baseball IQ onto my iphone (I don’t think it is available on droid phones, but I’m not sure). Here is the web site for the app on Acta Sports:
http://www.actasports.com/titles/bill_james_baseball_iq_app/
It is pretty cool. You can read a description and see some screen captures on the above site, but basically it allows you to see heat maps and color maps of batters and pitchers (in all combinations, counts, situations, etc.) for K zone, batted balls, pitch type, etc.
Best of all, the app is free! Seems to me that they could have charged for this one, but I know nothing about the best way to make money from apps. It also seems like they could use these graphics more often on TV broadcasts.
Anyway, give it a try and see what you think…
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
I’ve received a few requests in the last two weeks for an injury database.
I know there were a couple out there floating around. Josh maybe? Or Zimm? Anyway, if someone wants to help out the community, please post a link to your injury DB. Ideally, you have it cross-referenced to MLBAM or Retro IDs.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Great stuff!
Thursday, January 12, 2012
By , 07:07 AM
Does anyone know of an up-to-date (including the 2011 season) web site (or some other place) that has MLB ID’s of players?
This one:
https://github.com/geoffharcourt/mlb_rosetta
Does not seem to be updated anymore.
And I don’t think the Lahman or BDB includes 2011. Does anyone know if those will be updated to include 2011?
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Comments • 2012/01/13
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Clay is giving it to us… the raw data, the translated data, and the “forecasted” data. Great stuff.
Friday, December 23, 2011
I don’t know if this is available for the public, or for BPro-subs. A great tool. (Presumably at least the article is available to the public, because it sells the app.)
Seems to me this is the kind of thing you’d want for an iPhone especially.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
By , 04:59 PM
What is the addition of Pujols and Iannetta worth to the Angels, assuming they take Mathis’ and Abreue’s place?
I ran a quick sim against an average team. The gain is 5.5 wins per 150 games versus a RHP, and 10.4 wins versus a LHP.
Interestingly, of that 5.5 win gain versus RHP, 3.6 is from Iannetta over Mathis (assuming roughly equal defensive value), which leaves only 1.9 for Pujols.
Against LHP, only 2.1 of those wins are from Iannetta/Mathis, so 8.3 are from Pujols/Abreu.
Anyway, if we assume 2/3 of their PA are against RHP, we get a total upgrade of 7.1 wins.
This probably overstates the upgrade, though, since Mathis was not nearly the full time catcher last year (he only played in 93 games).
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Comments • 2011/12/12
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
For those interested:
http://wahoosonfirst.com/war-calculator
Monday, December 05, 2011
Some updates on Fangraphs. Check out the various tabs in there. Tons of good stuff.
And, if you have suggestions, post them here. David is pretty much incomparable in terms of turnaround time of taking suggestions and implementing them.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Brian Burke links to it, and gives it the love it deserves.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Fangraphs rolls out even more customization options.
The one that I asked David to do was to be able to see a player’s stats split between teams. This would be useful in cases like KRod, and you want to see his LI with the Mets and Brewers in 2011 in the leaderboards. I asked David about this just last week, so the turnaround is just fantastic.
I might have to push him on other stuff that I use BR.com for, like times through the order for starting pitchers, etc. Having it on a leaderboard, easily exportable, sure is a timesaver.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
BPro rolled it out. Check back a little later, as I wasn’t able to get any data yet.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Good stuff.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sochak shares his code.
Monday, July 11, 2011
For those who like Clay’s data presentation, he has it for you on his site.
Whenever Retrosheet updates their site, I always get excited. It’s the closest we in the sports research community get to feeling like Indiana Jones (sans Karen Allen).
They’re always looking for scoresheets of odd games here and there, and it would be fantastic if the word can be spread out. Here’s the tiny list for 1973, and the list for all the years. They’ve also taken a huge step forward by deducing the accounts for missing games via newspaper accounts and daily tallies.
Retrosheet is a fantastic organization. Support them by scouring the country for what they need.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Trash and ye shall receive.
Great stuff from Ted and friends. For all those who are already wasting your valuable time matching IDs and the like: stop doing that sh!t. I can’t count the number of hours I’ve wasted doing that. Must be in the dozens, if not past 100 already. And if you’ve got a new dataset that you can contribute (that’s not already mapped by Ted already… check to see if he has it), see if Ted can incorporate it. This is a beautiful thing, and I’ve been transitioning all my mappings to his file.
I am pleased to announce that the Baseball ID Working Group is now publishing a register of professional players, which is updated daily. The Baseball ID Working Group is a consortium of data providers and analysts who are working together to publish a definitive register of basic identifying information on players, managers, and umpires throughout the history of professional baseball internationally, including a cross-reference table of major person identification systems.
The current (provisional) download site for this is:
http://balco.sabr.org/data/baseballid/
Each day’s release is dated in the filename; for convenience, the file baseballid-latest.zip always points to the most recent update.
Updates should happen approximately every morning. However, there is a manual approval process, so there may be an occasional day in which an update does not occur if I am not available to complete it.
These data are available under a Creative Commons non-commercial license for the benefit of the community.
There is a README.txt available which contains full details of what is present, and how to interpret/use it. Importantly, it also contains the names of several key contributors who have been instrumental in helping get this together.
Please direct enquiries to me offlist at dataczar (at) sabr (dot) org.
Ted
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Comments • 2011/04/13
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Friday, April 01, 2011
Courtesy of Millsy.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
1. He added “Shutdowns” and “Meltdowns” to the player pages. Here’s Gossage. It’s based on WPA, and I think the threshholds used were +/- .060 wins.
2. He added “ERA+”, but with the correct calculation (player divided by league). He calls is “ERA-” (i.e., lower is better), and he also does it for FIP. Here’s Pedro.
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