The following OF G corrections from Retrosheet data will eliminate the less OF g than P GS problems in my previous post: 1962 Cubs B. WIlliams should be...
The File I've downloaded requires you to have already saved three files to the same directory as your save the script. 1) The Baseball-Databank 2) A text file...
I can't actually post the data files...they're WAY too big...LOL But I can tell you how I assembled them. I'll be posting a text file with instructions on how...
Sorry for the delay in posting instructions on how to create the event file table the way I've created it (and the gamelog table). The event file table is...
Maybe not for mass distribution but it would be valuable to have records of proven discrepancies such as the following for each team-season - pitcher earned...
... Comly: left field center field right field ... Cleveland played two games with eight players, evidently including one or two officially lacking a...
Unless you have UNIX tools or some such thing the cp and cat commands won't work in DOS. The cp command and cat can be done in vanilla DOS by: copy *.txt...
Clem Comly <ccomly@...> wrote: Unless you have UNIX tools or some such thing the cp and cat commands won't work in DOS. The cp command and cat can be...
I was glad to find some nice info on Negro ballplayers, Sportswriters and of course, Home/Away-LH/RH hitting. I am currently working on a large project which I...
I'm trying to figure out what a field in one of the files stands for and wonder if anybody could help. In the Fielding Post Season file there is a field titled...
I'm looking to get a list of (as of some future date): playerid,teamid,pos,innings All the sites I would use doesn't help me in the Austin Kearns cases...
Hey all, I'd really like to read through the group's past emails, but I'd rather not have to plow through hundreds of web pages to do so. Does anyone here have...
I do if nobody else does. ... From: baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com [mailto:baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Aaron Sent: Sunday, August 06,...
I'm comparing the tables and noted the following differences between the regular season and post seaon fielding table. POST SEASON FIELDING Triple Plays -- not...
I think Triple plays used to be in the Regular Season Fielding Table perhaps? If not, then I must have added it when I created the POST SEASON FIELDING Table....
I am about to engage in an analysis of baseball stats. The database that I am using is Lahman-52. will be analyzing 1921 to 2004. Is this a decent choice for...
What is it that you are trying to accomplish? What is the question that you are seeking an answer for? Tom ... THE BOOK -- Playing The Percentages In Baseball...
Question: Can the data vectors for each player be used to create a classification of ball players? First the number of player-types has to be determined from...
If by classification you mean a profile or style of player, that's a good project. I look forward to seeing what you have. If you want some ideas as to how...
... Of course. ... As Tom Tango suggested, that reveals mixed motives. I believe that it must get in the way of classifying players --which you might do by ...
... I guess that you are inclined to denominate by at bats, ignoring bases on balls and hits by pitch, sacrifice bunts and flies, because popular baseball uses...
Paul: Thanks for the advice--I will include the other stats. The hitting example was a feeble attempt to describe what I am doing. The procedure is robust in...
... Voros first described this process when he developed DIPS. He would break up the stat line into binary components: HBP, no HBP. Of the no HBP, walk or no ...
Kristin Campbell <kcampbell53@...> is a colleague, I suppose? ... The particular article by Jim Albert, advocating four rates understood sequentially,...
... Based on what I know of the project, I might have guessed 1939 because in the Batting table I find 26106 records with null GIDP (ground into double play)...
Hello all, Looking through the archives, I see that John asked the question I was about to ask, but I don't see where it was ever answered. Basically the...