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**Tango Tiger** · 10-13-2006, 07:10 AM

*****Baseball-Reference will be the answer to most of your questions****

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The most up-to-date listings of websites (including those listed below) is on my wiki:
http://tangotiger.net/wiki/index.php?title=Websites

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http://www.baseball-reference.com/ The online historical baseball site.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/pujolal01.shtml

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/ Box Scores, PBP data, players, umps, schedules, the mother load
http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/P/Jpujoa0010.htm

http://www.fangraphs.com/statss.aspx...77&position=1B
Event data, including batted ball types, win probability, pitches thrown

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/stats/...3=1&statSet1=2
Includes groundball outs, air outs, pitches thrown

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/players/6619/splits Yahoo's player pages where you can see current season, past season, career player splits.

http://www.baseballmusings.com/cgi-b...?PlayerID=1177 Day by Day player game log

http://baseball1.com/statistics/ The place to download the Lahman database

http://www.thebaseballcube.com/ Baseball encyclopedia that also provides minor league data for players
http://www.thebaseballcube.com/playe...t-Pujols.shtml

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ An almanac of baseball

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/dt/pujolal01.php

http://www.minorleaguesplits.com/pl/...rILbbip06.html
Minor league data, including balls in play, and splits

http://www.hardballtimes.com/thtstat...view=winshares Win Shares
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Definitions, glossaries

http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/statpages/glossary/

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/gl...&category=true

Did I mention yet that Baseball-Reference.com will be the answer to almost 95% of your questions?

**Mariano_Rivera** · 10-14-2006, 12:16 PM

Where can I get historical GB% data?

**Tango Tiger** · 10-16-2006, 06:52 AM

I included links to Fangraphs and MLB.com in the first post. Otherwise, download the Event Files at Retrosheet, and parse the data yourself.

**Tango Tiger** · 10-31-2006, 07:34 AM

Win Probability is a representation of the game, as it's happening, with the changes in win probability assigned to the players directly involved.

If a player happens to find himself in alot of high leverage situations, or happens to perform best with the game on the line, win probability will reflect that, and assign the credit/blame to the players involved.

It doesn't try to distinguish between design and timing.

In short, a win probability chart simply quantifies how you feel, with the ebbs and flows of the chart matching your joy and frustration.

**Tango Tiger** · 11-29-2006, 09:14 AM

Here is some count data:

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/inde...ting_by_count/

**Williamsburg2599** · 12-28-2006, 07:42 PM

Originally Posted by Jake Patterson

The discussion of what part of the world/country produces the most players keeps coming up in Coaching 101. Does any one here have a resource that lists current players by place of birth?

Jake
101 Moderator

Here is a page from Baseball-almanac.com that has all players in the history of the MLB, not just current players. It's the closest thing that i know of: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php

**Ubiquitous** · 12-28-2006, 07:58 PM

Baseball reference has a section that lists all the players by country of birth.

If you want to be able to play with the numbers then you need to get a hold of a database. Which is available in the links provided above.

**BoSox Rule** · 01-08-2007, 04:55 PM

http://www.baseballrace.com/default.asp

**HarryAbles** · 02-13-2007, 02:42 PM

This is an odd question, but does anyone know where to find SH and SF totals in each park? I'm messing around with park factors, and the James Handbook has most of what I need, but I have no idea where to get the two above. Thanks

**HarryAbles** · 03-08-2007, 11:38 PM

This one might be easier - anyone holding onto batter and pitcher L/R splits for the past five years or so? BIS sells them for $20 a season, which is my only other option until my parsing is up to par.

**Tango Tiger** · 03-15-2007, 08:49 PM

Join the yahoo group KJOKBASEBALL , and he might have the park data you want. Otherwise, parse the GameLogs on Retrosheet.

**priceyeah** · 04-24-2007, 06:23 PM

Great links! But I can't find a site anywhere that lists historical quality starts. ESPN has the stat for the last several individual years but I would love to find a place to check out career totals for recent pitchers. I heard a trivia question while watching a Brewer game the other day which asked which pitcher since divisional play began (1969) has the most career quality starts. I missed the answer! I just have to know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

**Tango Tiger** · 04-25-2007, 06:53 AM

Since 1957, Don Sutton, and Nolan Ryan was second.
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/e2jT

Basically, the list is similar to GS minus L.

Since 1957, this is the list for percentage of starts that are QS:
http://www.bb-ref.com/pi/shareit/UmVC

The top 12: Seaver, Pedro, x, RJ, Gibson, Drysdale, Koufax, Schilling, K Brown, Maddux, Clemens, y

Good list. x=Mel Stottlemyre, and y=Steve Rogers

**jazzychad** · 05-02-2007, 06:11 AM

Another site that popped up quite recently is
http://www.madstatter.com
Some interesting visualizations of win/loss/run data, plus some dynamic graphics you can use on your websites/forums/etc... (like the one that's in my sig)

**Colin** · 06-08-2007, 12:02 AM

I've been looking for quite a while, so I'm sorry if anybody has talked about this before, but I really cannot find it for the life of me...

Does anybody know of a way/place where I can see which pitchers have thrown games forcing all outs by Groundball or flyball, or at least a percentage of GB/FB/K?

Thanks, Colin.

**Honus Wagner Rules** · 06-12-2007, 11:38 PM

SABR stands for the Society of American Baseball Research.

http://www.sabr.org/

From it's website it's mission statement is:

The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) was established in Cooperstown, New York in August, 1971. Our mission is to foster the study of baseball past and present, and to provide an outlet for educational, historical and research information about the game.

From wikipedia:

The Society for American Baseball Research was established in Cooperstown, New York, in August of 1971. The Society's mission is to foster the research and dissemination of the history and record of baseball, while generating interest in the game.

SABR, which is pronounced "saber" and whose acronym led to the creation of the word sabermetrics (the usage of mathematical tools to analyze baseball), is about much more than statistics. Members include not only "sabermetricians" Bill James and Rob Neyer, but also other people active in the baseball world such as Keith Olbermann, Roland Hemond, and Bob Costas. Jeff Bajenaru is believed to be the only active player with a SABR membership; Elden Auker, Larry Dierker, and Andy Seminick also have been involved.

Only a minority of members pursue "number crunching" research. Rather, SABR offers a community of fans organized in two ways. Research Committees study a particular issue. Regional Chapters are for members in geographic proximity. They are frequently named after baseball personalities relevant to the region.

SABR members also keep in touch through online directories and listservs set up through the central SABR office, which is based in Cleveland, Ohio. The central office also maintains a number of research tools on its website, including a lending library, home run and triple play logs, and course syllabi related to the game.

SABR offers an annual convention to its members at a different site each year. The conference generally includes panel discussions, research presentations, city-specific tourism, a ballgame, and an awards banquet. It also sponsors a literary conference in Cleveland and a Negro Leagues conference, held in a different location each year.

The 2006 convention was held in Seattle, Washington, from June 28th through July 2nd, with former Major League Baseball pitcher and author Jim Bouton as the keynote speaker. The 2007 convention will be held in St. Louis, Missouri, and will feature Joe Garagiola as the luncheon speaker.

**RuthMayBond** · 06-13-2007, 03:44 AM

Originally Posted by LGehrigFan

Also, black ink

http://www.baseball-reference.com/ab...html#black_ink

<and grey ink.>

http://www.baseball-reference.com/ab...shtml#gray_ink

**Tango Tiger** · 06-13-2007, 07:11 AM

Can people try google first? I typed:
black ink baseball
and I got this as the first link:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/ab...glossary.shtml

Typing in SABR brings me to the SABR home page.

**Tango Tiger** · 06-28-2007, 01:17 PM

Sultan, can you create a thread, and add details to your question?

Mission: what is it that you expected? Can't we expect that the questioner has performed the barest of due diligence?

Colin: the first post of this thread, the second link, is to Fangraphs. If you look at the Game Log for Clemens, you get this:
http://www.fangraphs.com/statsd.aspx...tion=P&season=
I know it doesn't give you GB outs, but it might help you otherwise.

**NewEnglandAmazins** · 07-01-2007, 07:22 PM

I am aware that Run Support is usually out of a pitcher's control unless he is in the National League but, does anyone know where I can find this stat? I'm just interested in seeing which pitchers have benefitted the most from having good offensive support.

**Chisox** · 07-02-2007, 07:14 AM

Are you looking for a specific time-frame? I just noticed that baseball-reference has run-support data for individual pitchers going back to 1957.

**Tango Tiger** · 07-02-2007, 07:40 AM

Very interesting:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi...=TOT&year=2006

Those numbers simply look wrong. I'll ask Sean to comment.

**Tango Tiger** · 07-02-2007, 07:49 AM

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi...&year=2006&t=p

**NewEnglandAmazins** · 07-02-2007, 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Tango Tiger

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pi...&year=2006&t=p

Thanks, but isn't there a simpler format? I remember seeing a run support stat displayed during the 1993 post-season, stating that Jack McDowell had led the league in Run Support. The value was around 6 runs per start.

**Jared33** · 07-09-2007, 02:16 PM

Hi,

If anyone could provide me with or tell me how to access the following data, it would be much appreciated:

A play by play database going back at least 6-7 years. The data must show how many outs there were, how many runners were on base (and which bases), who was batting, and who was pitching. I need all of that information for each at bat...

For example (format doesn't matter),

0 outs, runner on 2nd, A. Smith batting, B. Thomas pitching
1 out, runner on 3rd, C. Williams batting, B. Thomas pitching
...
...

I don't care about the format, so long as the needed information is in the data.

Thanks in advance,
Jared