Does anyone have a dataset of Negro League players and the team they were on? Other information is not needed as long as I have those two facts. I am mainly...
Hi all (and apologies for crossposting): I figured to do some getting while the getting was good, and compile a set of minor league statistics for the 2006...
When a player plays for multiple teams in the same year, each season is listed, plus a sum of all which is noted with team titled TOT (for total) at Baseball...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
While spot-checking some things, I noticed a discrepancy in the 1975 Red Sox ALCS batting statistics. According to BDB (and Retrosheet), Cecil Cooper had 4...
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...
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 ...
"Clutchieness" a word form I learned from studying SNL's evaluations of the "Truthieness" of a certain politian. Clutch hitters, (and pitchers,) should be...
(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...
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...
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...
(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'm going through the Retrosheet event files to see how often each batter hit with and against the platoon advantage to determine whether the batter is a LH,...
I would like to add a table called roster. This would be required to be updated more frequently but I would volunteer doing it. Also, who would I talk to about...
Robert Bluestein wrote... ... We have IBB data starting with the 1955 season. No idea when they started being carried in box scores. ... Most IBB in a Season ...
Hello, Thanks for allowing me to join this group. I am a teacher at University of Phoenix and would love to use Baseball as a way to teach database, SQL, Data...
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...
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,...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
