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...
Tom: Don't know if I have a "solution" but: 1. Batting.G = Pitching.G 28,885 cases. Should be no issue with these. 2. Batting.G < Pitching.G 2,521 cases (All...
No. I found 8 Phillies pitchers from 2004 with Gp > Gb. Cormier was 5 low (per Retrosheet.org his P games were correct but his batting games were low)....
I went thru the dailies at Retrosheet for a couple of these Phillies Ps--it looks like the missing Gb are for games on the road against AL teams so it appears...
Whew, OK, had me worried for a second. DH games are the problem, for AL AND NL pitchers. I don't exactly remember the source of the data those years (Sean or...
... For recent seasons, mlb.com is clearly only reporting games in which the pitcher actually appeared in the batting lineup. However, for earlier seasons, the...
Has anyone ever done a web front end to query and display the Databank DB? Maury Brown President - Bizball LLC (p) 503-892-5722 Business of Baseball columnist ...
Sean and everyone, I just came across a fantastic file that someone ["Spritze"] uses to create MLEs for their OOTP leagues. His database contains actual minor ...
Got the DB working with PHP and the Joomla CMS system. Have First Name, Last Name, Year, League, Team, Salary for search combinations back to 1985. Displays...
Retrosheet's statistics charge Dave Stewart with 5 earned runs in the 1990 World Series - 4 in game 1, and 1 in game 4. However, two sources I consulted (the...
Another one...Retrosheet charges Tom Glavine with 6 earned runs in the 1991 World Series, while TSN and Stats charge him with 4. The difference is game 2,...
Urban Shocker allowed 2 runs in the 7th inning of game 6 in the 1926 World Series. Retrosheet lists these runs as unearned. Here's the play-by-play of the...
Ray Prim gave up a run in the 8th inning of game 6 of the 1945 World Series, which Retrosheet has listed as unearned. The play-by-play: TIGERS 8TH: Swift...
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