Batting Season Finder - Baseball-Reference PI
Free preview through February 26th for our new custom leaderboard tool.
I’m proud to launch the Batting Season Finder, a new addition to the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index. This tool looks at full-season totals from 1871 through the current season.
This tool is full of features that you might not notice at first, so we’ve provided a list of demos below to show you what it can do. These demos all deal with home runs, but you can do the exact same thing with statistics like OPS, OPS+, BA, OBP, Runs Created, most common batting stats, and other information like age, year of retirement, handedness, height, weight, etc.
- Most Home Runs in a Career
- Most Home Runs in a Season
- By a Shortstop, in a single year year
- From age 33 to 36
- During First Three Seasons, any of first three seasons
- During Last Four Seasons (retired only), any of last four seasons (retired)
- From 2002-2006, full layout
- From 2002-2006, minimal layout (good for e-mail and forums)
- For a switch-hitter, in a single year
- For a Player with a Last Season of 2003
- By an Indian Right Fielder, in a single year
- By a Player with no stolen bases or a Slugging Percentage ≤ .400
- Teams with the most players with 20 or more HR
- Player with the most seasons of 20 or more HR
- Most Career At Bats without a Home Run
- Youngest to Hit 30 Home Runs
- Shortest to Hit 30 Home Runs
- Heaviest to hit no home runs while qualifying for the Batting Title since 1947
- and on and on and on
You can save and share a result you find using the “Save or Share It!” button. Win friends! And impress your boss!
TRY the Batting Season Finder for yourself.
This tool joins the Game Finder, Streak Finder and several other tools in the B-R PI.
Subscriptions to the Play Index are $29 for a year $5 for a month.
Coming soon is the pitching season finder.
Thank you thank you thank you.
Comment by Diane — February 8, 2007 @ 1:27 pm
This gets better every day.
About the only thing this site doesn’t have is a small picture of the player next to the name on his main page.
Comment by Dave — February 8, 2007 @ 2:21 pm
Dave,
I asked MLB for permission to do that last year as a news outlet, but they denied me. Maybe this year.
Comment by Sean — February 8, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Holy hot dogs
Walter Young in 2005 holds the record for most homers hit by anybody while weighing 300+ lbs. (322 in fact)
I hope that is a misprint. It was supposed to be 222 lbs. right?
I mean his weight is higher than his batting avreage (303)
And the weird part is…he was drafted by my hometown Pirates.
Comment by Dave — February 8, 2007 @ 2:55 pm
This is a lot of fun.
Comment by Rob L — February 8, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
how did you create the query “Teams with the most players with 20 or more HR”? I can not find how to do a whole team, not just an individual player.
Comment by ryan b — February 8, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
Ryan,
You set the criteria in the upper right to HR ≥ 20. Then for the Sorted By select “Tms w/ most players matching”
You also need to have Find Single Seasons at the top selected.
Comment by Sean — February 8, 2007 @ 3:35 pm
Thanks
Comment by ryan b — February 8, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
Sean - Can you find the most homeruns hit in a ten year span? or the highest OPS+ in a five year span?
Comment by hubbs — February 8, 2007 @ 7:39 pm
Spans are a tougher nut to crack and can’t be done in this tool. Perhaps at some point.
Comment by Sean — February 8, 2007 @ 10:40 pm
Sean - I’ve been able to use the search to find things like “Most hits by a 220+ lb catcher since 1963″, but I can’t get searches that use OPS+ to work. Do you know what I might be doing wrong?
Comment by Adam — February 8, 2007 @ 11:10 pm
Thanks for pointing this out. I got it fixed.
Comment by Sean — February 9, 2007 @ 9:18 am
About the spans…
Can’t you just click the “totals for matching seasons” then change the date to any 10 or 5 year period and make sure they are sorted by most HRs?
I get that you can’t do ANY 10-year spans…
Comment by Dave — February 9, 2007 @ 12:57 pm
Hi Sean, I’m very worn-out today, but now I’m home to BR.com. This is the first Play Index feature I’m interested in using. Is there anyway I can just cancel all of my sponsorships, and transfer any remaining credit I might have to pay for a 1-year $30 membership? I’m REALLY broke, and this makes me angry to have to pay extra, when I’ve already sent a pretty good amount of money to you. Sincerely, David R. Brewer. user:dbrewer18tx P.S. I’ve been using your site since the very 1st day it was up! I’m trying to help expand Bullpen Info, although I admit I haven’t done much so far. Please Help! (TEXAS RANGER FANATIC)
Comment by David — February 9, 2007 @ 7:21 pm
Large Sponsors get a $14 discount on a one year sub. Send me an e-mail and we can work something out.
Comment by Sean — February 10, 2007 @ 12:23 am
Hi Sean -
In the “Criteria to Filter on” section, you’ve included an option that says “set to zero for.” Can you explain what that does? Also, how long before the Pitching Season Finder works?
Thanks!
Comment by bigrhythm — February 10, 2007 @ 10:31 am
Never mind - I’m an idiot….
Comment by bigrhythm — February 10, 2007 @ 1:14 pm
Dear Sean, thanks for the kind offer. Really though, it’s not of any importance. I’m broke, and I need to find a job. When I get that part out of the way, that’s when we’ll talk. I shouldn’t be wasting this time worried about baseball. I’m going to end up as a divorced, homeless man if I don’t get busy. I appreciate your work though, and all the kind people on this site, yourself most of all! Sincerely, David
Comment by David — February 10, 2007 @ 6:27 pm
Very slick - those 36 Yankees with 5 guys with 107 RBI or more…amazing…when will the pitching be ready?
Comment by Hugh — February 10, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
I hope to have it done this next week.
Comment by Sean — February 10, 2007 @ 10:47 pm
Any idea when the section tagged “Minimum Playing Career Time” will be available?
Mine says “not working…”
Comment by Dave — February 11, 2007 @ 8:34 pm
It is working. I just failed to take down that notice. Sorry.
Comment by Sean — February 12, 2007 @ 8:19 am
Is is possible you could have another filter for “# of teams played for”
That way we could look up things like…Most HRs by a player that played for just one team/two teams/three teams…
This probably would be a career filter only–since not many people play for more than two teams in a season (unless your Dave Kingman in 1977).
Comment by Dave — February 12, 2007 @ 12:17 pm
Sean: your sort is broken when grouping by Times On Base, Total Bases:
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/nPkj
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Also, can you add “Runs Produced” (R+RBI-HR) as a grouping item? The case for the construction has been made here:
http://www.tangotiger.net/runsproduced.html
Tom
Comment by tangotiger — February 13, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
How do I get a list of player/manager by year?
Comment by Neil — February 13, 2007 @ 4:10 pm
Tango,
I’ve added Runs Produced and fixed the broken sort. Sorry about that.
Dave,
I’ve added a franchise count for the career finder. It seems to work fine, but could fail in some subtle.
Neil,
I’m not sure I understand your question.
Comment by Sean — February 14, 2007 @ 3:04 pm
No apologies, please.
Fantastic stuff! Thanks…
Comment by tangotiger — February 14, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
There is no “height” in the “sort by” yellow box but “height” does appear in the filter criteria boxes…is that right?
Comment by Dave — February 18, 2007 @ 9:27 pm
Your list of players with seasons with 20 HRs lists players with ll seasons of 20 HR. Why is RON SANTO not on the list?!?!?
Comment by mac — February 26, 2007 @ 10:07 pm
He is on the second page with a several others.
Comment by Sean — February 26, 2007 @ 10:59 pm