THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

I’m most excited by the new minor league pages:

http://sandbox.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=jackso004jos

Maybe it’s just me, but I like how the older pages look. Is there anything Sean is gaining by switching to this format?

The sponsor’s name could be a touch smaller, I think.  When the page first opened, I thought to myself, for a moment, “who is this Don Malcolm player, and how did I miss him?”

Cut and paste directly to Google Spreadsheets—how good is that? Sean Forman for the HoF, I say.

Gotta love me some csv output options.
vr, Xei

Dan, this is the best thing possible for copy-and-paste Excel sabermetricians. Scraping data off off Baseball Reference? Nooooooo problem! Absolutely fantastic. I can only think of 10-12 uses for this.

Does the historical minor league data come from SABR’s online Minor League Encyclopedia? The preview pages look great. This is unbelievable. I have compiled a lot of these categories myself (RBOE, Bunt Hits, Pickoffs, GIDP Opportunities, SH Attempts). It will be interesting to see what differences there are from my totals. There is even detailed baserunning and fielding data.

I believe Sean is working hand-in-hand with SABR on the minor league stuff.

There will be Mountain Dew, photoshop and BR.com in heaven.  There might be one or two copies of “The Book” too but I’m not sure that God will allow anything more involved than a t-test.

Wow. Love the new look. I really like that the nuetralized stats have their own section.

Downloading these tables will be fun stuff!

Any word on when it is supposed to be all finalized?

Interesting stuff. It would be great if Mr. Forman could work with Rally and put TotalZone in Advanced Fielding, but I like B-R as it is already.

As the sample pages look right now, there is way too much data crammed into them. It would be nice to have the basic batting, pitching, and fielding info on a single page. You could then have seperate tabs for the more detailed statistics. Considering these are beta pages, I will stop complaining.

Colin--

I figured the older pages were easier to work with, from a cut/paste perspective. If this is better, then I’m all for it.

Visually, the old page is better. But it seems this is a lot more functional from a C&P standpoint, so I’m for it.

Finally, a re-design… sort of.

Although, It’s not much of an upgrade—from a UI perspective, at least—I’ve always found the home page, in particular, to be extraordinarily user unfriendly .  So I’ll wait to pass final judgment until I see the final product.  But I much appreciate the effort.