All-Star Game Index - Baseball-Reference.com
After taking forever to get it done, I’ve finally added an All-Star game section to the site. This has box score and pbp info for every game, leaderboards for all-time and individual games, and also integration into the Play Index, so you can do things like look for the youngest pitcher to win an All-Star game or the last batter to be intentionally walked in an all-star game.
I hope to roll out the All-Star stats to the player pages soon.
Youngest pitchers to start an all-star game - Baseball-Reference PI
I just added All-Star game information to the game finders and I’m working on an additional rollout of features for the upcoming all-star game. Should be a bunch of new all-star game info next week.
Potential Cap and T-shirt Logos
One area where B-R is solely lacking is merchandise. I often wish I had a nice B-R cap to wear to games or a B-R t-shirt to wear to those fancy restaurants I so often go to. Anyways, I have some ideas for the back of the shirt, but what about the logo to go on the front of the hat or shirt. If you have any thoughts or any other ideas, I would love to hear them.
SPOKESBLOGGERS: Microsoft pays star writers to recite slogan - Valleywag
I’m not a blogger and the site isn’t a blog, but since this controversy has blown up in the blogosphere and we use Federated Media as well, I just wanted to get on the record. We are paid for the ads on the site. ESPN’s Bronx is Burning ads which started on Friday are ads that B-R is being paid for and was run through Federated Media. As part of the campaign, I was asked to write text (along with Nate Silver over at BP) about the 1977 Yankees, and that text was incorporated into the ads. It is very likely that we’ll do similar things in the future for other products and services. On another note, I haven’t seen any previews for the mini-series, but the book was a great read.
As for bloggers doing this. I think it is ok, but I can understand why it would rub some people the wrong way.
Also, we are paid for page sponsorships, the text links on the front page of the site and have affiliate agreements with groups like TicketsNow.com, IprepPress.com and Mitchell & Ness.
ESPN - TrueHoop
Justin Kubatko of our sister site Basketball-Reference.com defeated other pros and experts to win the TrueHoop Smackdown, and now a Spurs sportcoat will be his. Congrats Justin!
Sports Reference Roolz!
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 Game Previews - Baseball-Reference.com
I’ve added a lot of new stuff to the game previews and also worked out some of the formatting issues to make the printing and viewing a bit cleaner.
Game Previews
These are still in beta-testing, so I can’t guarantee they’ll be updated every day yet, but I’m working on it. Any feedback and suggestions is happily considered. I’ve also added a print stylesheet, so these should print pretty nicely if you want to take them to the game (at least that is my plan). I’m sick of the Phillies not including OBP/SLG and other stats on the scoreboard. Please give me your feedback. I want to make these the best out there.
I’ve already plugged each of these on the Stat of the Day Blog, but I thought I’d mention them here as well, more detail on how to do it is there, however.
Pitcher vs. Batter Reports now allow you to select an opposing roster, so you can see Roger vs. the current mets, or Halladay against the current Royals, or Bonds vs. the current Red Sox. You can also filter based on handedness or filter on Hall of Famer or active.
Game and season finders now have an option “Years w/ player games” or “Years w/ players.” Using these you can find out things like the season with the most no-hitters or the season with the most three home run games or the season with the most 20-game winners. Finding the fewest can be problematic because the seasons with zero don’t show up.
Event Finders for teams now have months as a summary option, so you can compare how teams did from one month to the next.
2007 Seattle Mariners Batting Orders - Baseball-Reference.com
I never thought it made sense to say a team had 140 different lineups when most of the difference was due to a different starting pitcher, so I didn’t include the changes in pitchers in that total. I’ve now included the total (at the bottom) both with and without differences in the pitcher counted.
Stat of the Day Blog
One of the problems I’ve run into is that explaining some of the new features on the site has been a challenge. There are a whole host of tools that are available, but it can be time consuming to highlight the features with examples. So I’ve called upon some guest bloggers to provide examples of the various things you can do on Baseball-Reference.com. Hope you enjoy their contributions. We intend to be adding new content to this blog on a daily basis, so check back often.
2002 Athletics Picks in the June Draft - Baseball-Reference.com
Baseball-Reference.com now has draft information from the start of the draft in 1965 through the 2006 draft. The draft database is fully searchable by year, round, franchise, high school, and player name. We’ve tried to reconcile the variety of high school and college names over the years as best we can. Please let us know what errors you find. The draft database also has complete data for drafts other than the normal phase of the June draft. Cursory career totals are given for players who debuted prior to 2007. We will be working to match up new 2007 debuts to the their draft record.
10th Overall Picks in the June Draft-Regular Phase - Baseball-Reference.com
Don’t link this out just yet as this is very crude and needs one more good day of work to flesh it out. You can get different picks by hacking the address by changing the =10 part to =1 or =100 or =225 or whatever you want.
Another interface shows you standard years and rounds.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?draft_type=janreg&year_ID=1980&round=6