baseball-reference.com Appreciation Thread (1 Viewer)

[Bogart]

If I was told I could only surf 5 websites for the rest of my life, baseball-reference.com would be a no-brainer (the other 4 might be pRon).

I have used this site for so many research situations, casual reading, drafting, Vintage drafting, etc. My goal is still someday to sneak in and sponsor the Rabbit Maranville and Scott Fletcher(available!!) pages.

Right now I have been going backwards through the first rounds of each June draft, seeing where the Rangers picked and then dreaming about them picking another player further down in the round. So far only Mark Teixeria, Justin Smoak and Ron Darling would have remained as the original Ranger picks.

Good times.

 

[snitwitch]

You should check out fangraphs.com

Not to pollute this baseball thread with the pigskin, but there's a similar site to baseball-reference.com located at http://www.pro-football-reference.com/ -- both are awesome!

 

[Eephus]

Fangraphs has added a lot of original essays and projections that are of particular interest to the fantasy player.

Thebaseballcube.com has more detailed minor league statistics.

Baseball Reference is still indispensible.

 

[Mike]

I have used this site for so many research situations, casual reading, drafting, Vintage drafting, etc. My goal is still someday to sneak in and sponsor the Rabbit Maranville and Scott Fletcher(available!!) pages.

Shouldn't have mentioned it. Someone might snag them on you

 

[dutch]

The whole -reference.com family is awesome. Sometimes you just get a hankerin' for number crunching and depending on the season there's no better place to turn for current and historical numbers for any of the 4 major sports. I have all 4 in a fast dial window on firefox.

 

[Bogart]

Today's random question: How does the greatest single season ERA of 1.27 result in an 18-20 record??

When your best hitter goes 0.248/45/1/43. The entire offense ranked last or next to last in every single offensive category. Every single one. Averaged 2.98 runs per game. 7 total homers for the team. Ladies and gentlemen, your 1910 Chicago White Sox!!

Big Ed Walsh must have been the most frustrated player ever that year.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Bogart>hi

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Bogart>hi

Tre > Hi

 

[Eephus]

Today's random question: How does the greatest single season ERA of 1.27 result in an 18-20 record??

Bob Gibson down?

Big Ed Walsh must have been the most frustrated player ever that year.

yeah, but "ever" was a lot shorter back then.

 

[Doctor Detroit]

 

[Please See Mine]

Today's random question: How does the greatest single season ERA of 1.27 result in an 18-20 record??

Bob Gibson down?

Tim Keefe is rolling over in his grave.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Bogart>hi

Tre > Hi

TU>hi

 

[Sammy3469]

TRE > :hi:

the beta site has about 5 times the info

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

TRE > :hi:the beta site has about 5 times the info

Sammy> We need more activity in your dynasty league. Maybe provide snacks and punch.

 

[Eephus]

TRE > :hi:the beta site has about 5 times the info

Sammy> We need more activity in your dynasty league. Maybe provide snacks and punch.

move Mr Phoenix' workout thread to the league boardI hate my team

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

TRE > :hi:the beta site has about 5 times the info

Sammy> We need more activity in your dynasty league. Maybe provide snacks and punch.

move Mr Phoenix' workout thread to the league boardI hate my team

I gotta be honest, I did not expect that to turn into a "workout" thread.Your team is beautiful...just the way God intended it. Let's trade.

 

[Eephus]

TRE > :hi:the beta site has about 5 times the info

Sammy> We need more activity in your dynasty league. Maybe provide snacks and punch.

move Mr Phoenix' workout thread to the league boardI hate my team

I gotta be honest, I did not expect that to turn into a "workout" thread.Your team is beautiful...just the way God intended it. Let's trade.

self loathing -> disturbing dreams -> exercise routines doesn't make for a very compelling story arc, but it seems to have been theraputic and we loves our leegmates.Are the league stats from last year archived anywhere? I can't remember which categories (except OBP) I sucked at the most.

 

[Bogart]

Today's random question: How does the greatest single season ERA of 1.27 result in an 18-20 record??

Bob Gibson down?

Tim Keefe is rolling over in his grave.

Yes, in my mad man-love for Walsh I got my wording wrong. Apologies. Still how do you give up just over a single run per game and lose more than half the time. Being on the losing end of 1-0 every third day had to suck.

 

[Bogart]

Bogart>hi

Tre > Hi

TU > hi

 

[Encyclopedia Brown]

I like visiting the site when I recall some random bench player from my youth.A Ted Sizemore, a Craig Swan, a Bake McBride, Biff Pocaroba.

Have you yet sponsored the John Wockenfuss page?

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

TRE > :hi:

the beta site has about 5 times the info

Sammy> We need more activity in your dynasty league. Maybe provide snacks and punch.

move Mr Phoenix' workout thread to the league boardI hate my team

I gotta be honest, I did not expect that to turn into a "workout" thread.Your team is beautiful...just the way God intended it. Let's trade.

self loathing -> disturbing dreams -> exercise routines doesn't make for a very compelling story arc, but it seems to have been theraputic and we loves our leegmates.Are the league stats from last year archived anywhere? I can't remember which categories (except OBP) I sucked at the most.

I think this link will work: http://sb-uber.baseball.cbssports.com/standings/2008And yes, you had a league worst .338 obp.

 

[Eephus]

I think this link will work: http://sb-uber.baseball.cbssports.com/standings/2008

And yes, you had a league worst .338 obp.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

I think this link will work: http://sb-uber.baseball.cbssports.com/standings/2008

And yes, you had a league worst .338 obp.

Brian Giles available.

 

[Eephus]

I think this link will work: http://sb-uber.baseball.cbssports.com/standings/2008

And yes, you had a league worst .338 obp.

Brian Giles available.

Sad to say I started Giles most of last year and still had an OBP worse than some real NL teams.

 

[Eephus]

New BR site is live. Not crazy about the white on red headers but the rest is

 

[Limp Ditka]

New BR site is live. Not crazy about the white on red headers but the rest is

Just came in here to post about it. I really like it.

 

[Bogart]

Loving that B-R is now live.

Also love on the Teams page where it lists all the teams, you can see the Games over and under 0.500 for the entire franchise of the team. Good stuff.

 

[Bogart]

Hamilton to Hamilton in 7 steps...

Billy Hamilton played with Ed Delahanty for the 1891 Philadelphia Phillies

Ed Delahanty played with Nap Lajoie for the 1900 Philadelphia Phillies

Nap Lajoie played with Charlie Grimm for the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics

Charlie Grimm played with Phil Cavarretta for the 1934 Chicago Cubs

Phil Cavarretta played with Minnie Minoso for the 1955 Chicago White Sox

Minnie Minoso played with Richard Dotson for the 1980 Chicago White Sox

Richard Dotson played with Jeff Conine for the 1990 Kansas City Royals

Jeff Conine played with Josh Hamilton for the 2007 Cincinnati Reds

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Hamilton to Hamilton in 7 steps...Billy Hamilton played with Ed Delahanty for the 1891 Philadelphia Phillies Ed Delahanty played with Nap Lajoie for the 1900 Philadelphia Phillies Nap Lajoie played with Charlie Grimm for the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics Charlie Grimm played with Phil Cavarretta for the 1934 Chicago Cubs Phil Cavarretta played with Minnie Minoso for the 1955 Chicago White Sox Minnie Minoso played with Richard Dotson for the 1980 Chicago White Sox Richard Dotson played with Jeff Conine for the 1990 Kansas City Royals Jeff Conine played with Josh Hamilton for the 2007 Cincinnati Reds

I bet Minoso is the "Kevin Bacon" of this game

 

[Eephus]

This seemed like as good a place to post this as any:

Steven Soderbergh is making a big push toward realism in his new movie, “Moneyball,” adapted from the best-selling Michael Lewis book that followed the Oakland A’s and their general manager Billy Beane (to be played by Brad Pitt), who used an innovative, statistics-based approach to build the team’s roster and win the 2002 MLB American League West Division title.To that end, Soderbergh will be casting real life participants to play themselves, filming at American League ballparks around the country and inserting actual MLB game footage into the film. One area in which the Oscar-winning director will not be striving for realism, however, will be with Bill James, the stats guru who has a key role in Lewis’ book and whose body of work Beane applied to his management of the A’s.“My current plan is to animate him,” Soderberg revealed to MTV News while promoting his Tribeca Film Festival entry, “The Girlfriend Experience.”James has become something of a mythic individual for sports fans and baseball execs because of his early advancement of so-called sabermetrics, a conventional wisdom-defying approach to evaluating talent that favors statistics such as on-base percentage over traditionally promoted stats like batting average. Since Beane valued players differently than his peers, he was able to stack the A’s relatively cheaply and beat the pants off big money, large market teams. James is currently a senior advisor to the Boston Red Sox.“We have this sort of oracle character that appears throughout and declaims various issues and he’s essentially supposed to be Bill James,” Soderberg said. “He’s your host in a way…. The background will be real but the person who is supposed to be him will be animated.”Why the switch between realism and animated fantasy in this case? “It needs a gimmick,” Soderberg explains. “It needs something to make it not Masterpiece Theatre. His writer voice is so big, I thought to literalize it is going to actually harm it. I need to make his voice funny and when he comes on you’re happy to see it.”

 

[Bogart]

Someone explain to me the 1887 year for Hugh Nicol.

Sets the single-season stolen base record with 138.

He did that by hitting 0.215 with an on-base pct of 0.341. Only had 102 hits and 86 walks. That is an insane ratio for stolen bases to times on base. He only had 18 doubles, 2 triples and a homer.

The numbers just don't match up.

I'm guessing super-sonic speed and every basehit was an infield single (or double).

 

[Eephus]

Someone explain to me the 1887 year for Hugh Nicol.Sets the single-season stolen base record with 138.He did that by hitting 0.215 with an on-base pct of 0.341. Only had 102 hits and 86 walks. That is an insane ratio for stolen bases to times on base. He only had 18 doubles, 2 triples and a homer.The numbers just don't match up.I'm guessing super-sonic speed and every basehit was an infield single (or double).

From Wikipedia:

Prior to 1898 a stolen base was credited to a baserunner who reached an extra base on a hit from another player

I assume we're talking about something like going from 1st to 3rd on a single

 

[Bogart]

Happy birthday to Rabbit Maranville.

He would have been 119 years old today. And probably buzzed by this point in the day.

 

[Eephus]

Now with Negro Leagues stats

 

[Bogart]

The Rabbit Maranville page is available to sponsor.

Need some good shtick. Will be the best 30 bucks I spend.

 

[dgreen]

Today's random question: How does the greatest single season ERA of 1.27 result in an 18-20 record??When your best hitter goes 0.248/45/1/43. The entire offense ranked last or next to last in every single offensive category. Every single one. Averaged 2.98 runs per game. 7 total homers for the team. Ladies and gentlemen, your 1910 Chicago White Sox!!Big Ed Walsh must have been the most frustrated player ever that year.

52 earned runs and 35 unearned runs for Walsh.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

The Rabbit Maranville page is available to sponsor. Need some good shtick. Will be the best 30 bucks I spend.

"Least deserving guy in the Hall!"

 

[Eephus]

The Rabbit Maranville page is available to sponsor. Need some good shtick. Will be the best 30 bucks I spend.

"Least deserving guy in the Hall!"

Good thing OPS+ wasn't invented earlier

 

[Bogart]

The Rabbit Maranville page is available to sponsor. Need some good shtick. Will be the best 30 bucks I spend.

"Least deserving guy in the Hall!"

Good thing OPS+ wasn't invented earlier

I hate you guys.

Not really, I love you guys.

 

[Don Quixote]

The Rabbit Maranville page is available to sponsor. Need some good shtick. Will be the best 30 bucks I spend.

"Least deserving guy in the Hall!"

Good thing OPS+ wasn't invented earlier

WAR! What is it good for?