Thanks Tom - I somehow forgot you had these in your wiki. I've updated the page, but would appreciate all that have time to review them for accuracy at: ...
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tangotiger
Oct 1, 2009 3:39 am
KJOK: I completely forgot as well! Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball http://www.InsideTheBook.com...
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Matthew Gargano
tkestars
Oct 2, 2009 1:27 pm
I apologize if i am hijacking the listserv, but are there any other databases like the bdb/retrosheet/lahman for other US sports, i.e. football, hockey,...
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wyerscj
Oct 3, 2009 7:20 pm
There is something similar to Retrosheet for football, but they only have one season: http://footballproject.com/downloads/ --CW...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Oct 3, 2009 10:09 pm
I'm really interested in this as well, but particularly for hockey. Anyone have any idea? ... -- Wells Oliver wells@......
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Tom Stillman
giantsfan_94121
Oct 4, 2009 3:04 am
I checked this site out and was afraid to download a zip file that's four years old. No idea what nasty stuff (i.e. viruses etc that may be in it). The NFL...
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Seidburns850@...
Oct 4, 2009 3:07 am
I downloaded the ZIP from the site and had no issues whatsoever. Eric Seidman In a message dated 10/3/2009 11:04:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ...
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Brian L. Cartwright
brianlcartwr...
Oct 4, 2009 5:19 am
... If you look around the site, it's out together by Sean Lahman, who is a welll known and reputable guy. I downloaded and extracted the files. It's a nice...
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Tom Stillman
giantsfan_94121
Oct 4, 2009 5:44 am
My apologies if I offended anyone with my remark. I had a real bad experience recently opening a zip file from what I thought was a reliable source and it...
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Seidburns850@...
Oct 4, 2009 7:41 pm
You can also get basketball data here: _http://www.databasebasketball.com/stats_download.htm_ (http://www.databasebasketball.com/stats_download.htm) Eric...
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Ron Smith
sarona_mb
Oct 5, 2009 12:33 am
There are two Yahoo groups that I am aware of with respect to hockey. http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/hockey-databank/ and ...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Oct 27, 2009 8:09 pm
So MLB.com has an unintentional API. When you go to a player's page ( http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=433587) and open up an...
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tangotiger
Oct 27, 2009 8:55 pm
Very cool! Tom...
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Harry Pavlidis
harry_pavlidis
Oct 27, 2009 9:04 pm
What an excellent accident....
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Brian L. Cartwright
brianlcartwr...
Oct 27, 2009 9:06 pm
Yes, most excellent. This was exactly what i was looking for, access to mlb's biography file so that I can keep my player register automatically synchronized. ...
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Theodore Turocy
arb1ter
Oct 27, 2009 9:06 pm
... It's been there for at least all this season. Was I really the only person who knew? I thought it was common knowledge, so I never mentioned it. (And I...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Oct 30, 2009 9:20 pm
Forgive the shameless self promotion, but I've written a python abstraction layer for the MLB.com API. Maybe the community will find it helpful, and I'd ...
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Kyle W. Willkomm
willkoky
Oct 30, 2009 9:36 pm
Does the API provide any additional information beyond the XML files or is its value only that it can be queried real time and with limiting search....
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Oct 30, 2009 9:50 pm
Right now it's a wrapper around the XML and JSON responses from MLB.com abstracted in league/team/player objects. I'm adding easy methods for sorting,...
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Kyle W. Willkomm
willkoky
Oct 30, 2009 10:24 pm
Sorry, I was actually referring to the MLB live api itself. Not your Python wrapper. More of a "what does this new API being available mean to those who watch...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Oct 30, 2009 11:12 pm
Well, as far as I know there's no easy way to get in-season stats unless you resort to the tedium of screen scraping. Gameday provides certain information, but...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Nov 12, 2009 10:58 pm
I'm bored at work at the moment and so I ran the following query.. mysql> select distinct EVENT_CD from EVENTS where BAT_ID = 'suzui001' and EVENT_OUTS_CT = 2;...
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tangotiger
Nov 13, 2009 1:29 am
EVENT_OUTS_CT = out count on THAT event OUTS_CT = out count STATE Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball http://www.InsideTheBook.com...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Nov 13, 2009 4:50 am
Well now I feel dumb! Here I was incredulous over the fact that whenever Ichiro created two outs on a play, he created at least an out. ... -- Wells Oliver ...
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Kyle W. Willkomm
willkoky
Nov 13, 2009 5:51 am
3.2.0 Released Contains many schema changes to shrink the size of the database to field minimums (thanks to Colin Wyers) and support for player demographic ...
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tangotiger
Nov 13, 2009 3:38 pm
... Kyle, I haven't used your app, so tell me how this would work. When I deal with other DBMS and programming languages, and you do a "sum" on a smallint, ...
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Kyle W. Willkomm
willkoky
Nov 13, 2009 6:23 pm
Excellent observation from past experience. You have entered the dangerous waters of a non-DBA running a database project. So we shall give it a whirl; CREATE...
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tangotiger
Nov 13, 2009 6:53 pm
Very cool! Good job. Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball http://www.InsideTheBook.com...
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maxmarchi2001
Nov 15, 2009 12:42 pm
Kyle, thank you again: I'm a big fan of your work. Anyway I should point out that trying (on MiLB data) the new version, it takes something like 40-50sec to...
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Seidburns850@...
Nov 17, 2009 8:59 pm
I'm not sure what the issue is but after comparing to a few other years there seems to be one with the 1990 AL ZIP file. When I go to open the ZIP file, there...
