Pete Palmer has assured me that the BIS data is correct. But obviously that is not the source of data for mlb.com, baseball-reference, and baseball-databank....
... obviously that is not the source of data for mlb.com, baseball-reference, and baseball-databank. He reports the sum of DH G for all AL teams is 2454 and...
The totals I reported were both from a separate source and the BDB. When I check Retrosheet, I get a total of 2268 DH games, which compares to the 2142+132 =...
I was wondering when the Lahman database is going to be ready for public consumption. The website still says end of November, which was, you know, a while...
I think it is already available here: http://www.baseball-databank.org/ I put the sql version onto Mysql without problems and found Evan Longoria. ... From:...
... I suggest you download the Access database here: http://tangotiger.net/bdb/ Follow the instructions, and in a few minutes, you'll have a working copy that...
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Thanks for the replies, but I like the simplicity of the Lahman output -- no macros or interpreting SQL files or anything. dave...
Has anyone complied number of days on DL data? Number of games missed due to being on DL? That data would be very interesting to consider when forecasting ...
Craig: Â This doesn't directly answer your question, but there has been some discussion about adding DL and other types of 'off' time to the transactions...
I looked for the data and the only place I could find any data is at: http://www.baseball-injury-report.com/about.shtml It is a pay site, but all that I could...
... SABR is doing just that: http://minors.sabrwebs.com I will be releasing my annual CSV files of the previous year's minor league statistics sometime in the...
Maybe I wasn't clear.  The data currently, as far as I know, it not PUBLICLY available. There have been some private compilations that I know of.  ...
I went ahead and downloaded Tango's 2008 files (thank you, Tango) and noticed something. Kila Kaaihue (or Ka'aihue) had 24 plate appearances with the Royals...
The baseball transactions are all listed on the MLB website (going back to 2001). I have done some work creating a web spider and trying to match the names...
All, Just uploaded the MLB transaction data, parsed out from the MLB website. The data includes all player transactions from 2001 up through the end of...
Guys thanks for looking into DL data. If I had sample data to play with I could tell if it was valuable or not for predicting next years stats, as I'm sure...
Craig, Thanks for the kind words. My tests shows Chone is also a bit ahead of PECOTA in 2007. I didn't do 2008 yet. Marcel is also in the mix, just a smidge...
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Mike, Fantastic stuff. We're looking for more guys like you, so thanks for all this. I'm going to dabble in this a little, and report back what may be areas...
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Thanks Tom, I also uploaded a version of the data in CSV, if that is easier to check out. It is mlb_trans.csv.gz. Same table layout as I've given below. I...
Mike - this is very exciting! Thanks for getting that transaction data. Now for a dumb question. How do I open it? I know who to read in text files, csv,...
Is there a place that anyone interested in helping out can go to find out what is not currently being worked on? I'd love to help out but I don't want to...
Please, PLEASE do not reply to the entire digest when responding to a message! You probably have no idea how much of a PITA it is for those who receive this in...
I have read with great intrest all the postings but have never replied to any of them until now. I would like to ask if anyone out there knows where I can find...