(Cross-posted, and apologies if we've discussed JT Snow already, but I have no access to the archives at the moment.) Someone at MLB confirmed that JT Snow...
I've noticed that "Jim St.Vrain" doesn't have a space between the "St." and the "Vrain". Is this the correct spelling for his name? All other players in the...
I was unable to find any birth or death information on St. Vrain, but I did find a few nuggets. The 100+ articles written about the man during 1902 all spell...
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tom@...
Jan 15, 2009 5:22 pm
(Cross-posted to multiple yahoo groups.) This is the complete ID mappings for all MLB players in the 2008 season: ...
Excellent work. Thanks for this info. I will at least change it in the data I'm using with Baseball Mogul, but I'll leave the decisions about the Baseball...
Hey Guys, After much work, I've decided to release my mlb player forecasts to the public. In doing so, I?am also sharing some new statistics to measure player...
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tom@...
Jan 24, 2009 3:35 am
(Cross-posted to multiple Yahoo groups.) http://tangotiger.net/retrosheet/reports/hands.csv This file shows how many PA for each combination of hitting and...
A reader on my blog pointed out the following. If someone can confirm either way, that'd be great. I'm sending to Pete Palmer and Dave Smith under separate...
"Clutchieness" a word form I learned from studying SNL's evaluations of the "Truthieness" of a certain politian. Clutch hitters, (and pitchers,) should be...
The term "clutchiness" was coined by Tangotiger a couple of years ago. We've defined it and written about it the last two years in the Hardball Times Baseball...
Good morning all, I'm going to start searching around, but if anyone can point me to a quick reference on how fielding efficiency or effectiveness statistics ...
I've noticed that 'El Cajon' and 'La Mesa' are listed as 'ElCajon' and 'LaMesa' in the biographical data. Other errors I've found (I used Google Maps to verify...
I think this may have been mentioned before, but just in case... There seem to be two different teams that use a team ID of PH4 in the Teams table. The first...
Last time mentioned was post #3503: I think I've mentioned this for a couple of years, but the 1891 AA Philadelphia team has a Team ID of PH4, but I believe it...
Question... Does the DB have agent data tied to recent players? Have read somewhere that that might be the case, but can't seem to find the data. -- Maury...
Will Young mentioned he was doing this on baseballthinkfactory.org, but he has not provided it to us. sean 2009/2/8 Maury Brown <maurybaseballcrazy@...> ...
I believe it's still a work in progress.  I will talk to Will and see what his plans are about completing it and sharing it.  THANKS, Kevin ... From: Sean...
Hey, thanks, guys. Will work with Euston to see what I can dig up. On that note... once salary arbitration is completed, I will be publishing as much detail on...
Just reviving an old thread here, but this error still hasn't been fixed... Since this was first discussed, Retrosheet's PBP data has been revised for the play...
I should probably try to revise these using retrosheet's latest postseason pbp. sean 2009/3/23 dsreyn <dreynolds@...> ... -- Sean Forman President,...
One other note for documentation, in case this does ever get corrected, is that Retrosheet also uses the incorrect PH4 for the 1891 Philadelphia American...
Don't think we've mentioned these except within a table, but here is a summary of the team ID differences between BBDB and Retrosheet: 2005 - 2008 Los Angeles...
I have the 2009 mlb schedules availble to download on my site http://www.fan-exchange.com/mlb/schedule.asp Fields include homefranchid, awayfranchid and...
I just thought it would be cool if we all shared how we utilize the data we download. I started the website www.fan-exchange.com so fans can post their...
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tom@...
Apr 16, 2009 3:05 pm
This post is only for those who sees this from a clinical rather than moral perspective. Please ignore this post is you are in the latter group. Can someone...
Craig Depken and Jon Ford have a paper in the 2006 Journal of Socio Economics looking at the impact of race on allstar ballots. I can provide the data we used...
Tom, I someone else was looking to do this and was using some kind of program to looked at the player's pitcher and then set the race accordingly. I look for...
