Well, in the process of fixing a bug with the 2007 GS totals, I decided it made sense to spend three more hours and add retrosheet-extracted fielding to the player pages.
Retrosheet data is essentially complete back to 1956, so for those years forward, we now have.
SB, CS, and WP allowed data for all catchers. Johnny Bench
Innings Played and GS for all players at all positions. Ozzie Smith, 1960 Fielding Register
– This means range factor calculations are now much more accurate.
Composite OF totals and LF, CF, RF totals for those 52 years.
More Details Here.
Obviously RetroSheet is primarily responsible for this data being available. Thank you to all of the retrosheet volunteers.
We are on course for daily updates starting with Monday. I would have liked to get the Sox-A’s series up, but I had too many other things to squeeze in this week. Sorry.
Thanks to the tremendous work at RetroSheet we have added the 1956 play-by-play data to the site. We don’t quite have all of Hank Aaron’s Home Runs or Sandy Koufax’s strikeouts, but we are getting closer. Any glitches or errors that you come across, please let us know. It is a big update, and lots can and does go wrong.
Here are three glossaries that outline some other new stuff that we’ve added:
Also, splits are not yet updated. Hopefully this week or early next week. We have A LOT of big updates and changes coming down the pike this summer, so keep in touch.
I am updating the database with 1956 stats and additional data for other years, so you may not be able to reach the database with some queries. I hope that this will be completed by this evening (Monday, March 24). Sorry for the inconvenience.
September 8, 2007 St. Louis Cardinals at Arizona Diamondbacks Box Score and Play by Play - Baseball-Reference.com
I’m doing some work on the box scores and this is a bit rough at the moment, but I’d love some feedback as these take 40 hours to build, so I don’t want to have to do them twice. This is also the only one that I’ve uploaded.
The additions. Lots of new pitching stats like called, swinging and inplay strikes. True GB-FB-LD values when available (back to 1988).
WPA and Leverage for pitchers. WPA isn’t included for batters because I haven’t tackled baserunning thus far. WPA is adjusted to the league and park context and will be available from 1956 on.
Then a running WPA value for the winning team in the pbp account. I’ve also pulled out the five top plays as a summary above the pbp account.
Other suggestions?
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2007’s Most Historic and Impressive Team Splits — The Hardball Times
If the site seemed a little slow the last few months it was probably because Chris Jaffe was viewing and downloading every split from the site. (Just kidding Chris). He tells you what he finds here.