THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Looking for Data?

Here’s a handy one-stop shop for all online data you can find.  Feel free to add more in the comments area, and I will update the main entry accordingly.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/Jpujoa0010.htm
Box Scores, PBP data, players, umps, schedules, the mother load

http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx?playerid=1177&position=1B
Event data, including batted ball types, win probability, pitches thrown

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/historical/individual_stats_player.jsp?c_id=mlb&playerID=405395&section1=1&section2=1&statSet2=1&section3=1&statSet3=1&statSet1=2
Includes groundball outs, air outs, pitches thrown

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6619/splits
Yahoo’s player pages where you can see current season, past season, career player splits.

http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-bin/PlayerInfo.py?PlayerID=1177
Day by Day player game log

http://baseball1.com/statistics/
The place to download the Lahman database

http://www.baseball-reference.com/
http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/pujolal01.shtml
The online historical baseball site.

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/P/Albert-Pujols.shtml
Baseball encyclopedia that also provides minor league data for players

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/
An almanac of baseball

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/pujolal01.php
Includes extra context-specific adjustments

http://www.minorleaguesplits.com/pl/425/425834DurILbbip06.html
Minor league data, including balls in play, and splits

http://firstinning.com/players/B.J.-Upton-665/
Minor league data, year-by-year register per player

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Definitions, glossaries

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/statpages/glossary/

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/glossary/index.php?context=all&category=true