Here is the note I sent out to subscribers about the changes on the site.
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Baseball-Reference.com is now fully updated with 2002 statistics. The
postseason results, the awards voting, the game logs and the salaries
have all been updated. I’ve also fixed the errors that made it into
the last release (thank you for the e-mails).
2002 Awards Voting
2002 World Series
2002 Anaheim Angels Schedule and Record Breakouts
Patrick Reynolds from the Oracle of Bacon (oracleofbacon.org) recently
created a similar site for baseball. I’ve licensed this application
from him, so it now appears on Baseball-Reference.com. It is a bit
hard to explain, but please give it a try.
Oracle of Baseball
There are just two days left to bid on the new player and team pages.
All the rookies and most team pages are still just $10. To learn
more, visit the auction main page. General Sponsorship information is
at the second link. Sponsorships support this site and start at $5.
New Page Auction
About Sponsorship
Subscribers to Sports Illustrated will find an article about
Baseball-Reference.com and me (its creator) this week. It won’t
appear at newsstands, unfortunately.
Thank you again for your interest in Baseball-Reference.com.
Sincerely,
SeanForman
Sean Forman
Posted: December 09, 2002 at 03:21 AM |
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And, of course, 1000 kudos for these data.
Check our Single Season OPS+ Leaders.
Sorry. That's the link. Palmiero is the only non-HOFer on either list.
I'm bummed about the auction thing, though. Man, I called dibs like 3 weeks ago!! : )
Well, there is some room between those two categories. Canseco in my mind is in the "unlikely but stranger things have happened" category. Palmeiro has moved into the "highly probable entrant, maybe even first ballot". As a first baseman spending a significant portion of his career in the happy ball era with no MVPs, no significant post season success, and no signifiganct league leading categories, he does not strike me as sure fire first ballot. Depending on how high above 500 HRs and how close to 3,0000 hits he gets, that could very well change.
Regardless, Sean, you rock!
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Papa-Oom-Mow-Wow....indeed!
That may actually increase, rather than decrease, as Bernie's career gets longer and assumes a more common shape. It's rare for players of his calibre to retire early.
Actually, I'm glad it disappeared... I made a post to it accidentally that was about two-thirds-completed and half-revised; it left me looking as inarticulate as President Dubya.
Since I know you're just itching for something to do, I have one minor request/suggestion for improving the pages the next time around: strikeout rates on the league stat pages. Unlike hit and walk rates (which are listed among the pitching stats), strikeout rates have changed pretty drastically over the course of baseball history, and it would be a useful thing to be able to track.
Now that I mention it, rate stats for individual pitchers (H/9, K/9, K/W, WHIP, or whatever) would be useful too, but that's a whole 'nother ballgame...
I think it would, as James has printed Win Shares for all players from 1876-2001. If we were to fiddle with the formula and make our own output, I am not so sure.
Sean: Would you be willing to accept vounteer help to add additional features to the site? You already put a lot of work into it, so it's sort of rude to ask you to do more for what's already a nice free site, but there are some things out there that might make the site even better, if added. For example:
1) Splits- lefty/righty, home/away, etc.
There seems to be some confusion between the HOF Monitor and the HOF Standards List.
The Standards list is a 100-point scale on which the average HOFer scores 50, with weak HOFers around 35 and Willie Mays at around 82.
The Monitor is an open ended scale intended to predict whether active/recently retired players will make the HOF; if they're over 100, it predicts they're better than 50-50 to make it (eventually), and if they're over 130 it predicts they're very likely to make it (eventually).
Joe DiMaggio (938)
1 Shawn Estes (972)
Horner also missed more than 45 games per year as a Brave, mostly due to injuries. Only twice in a 10-year career did he play in more than 130 games - never more than 141. By the time he left Atlanta, he had been moved from 3b to 1b (largely as a result of the injuries). His wrist re-injury in 1984 (when he only played 32 games, and the Braves finished 80-82 and 2nd in the NL West) arguably cost Joe Torre his job in Atlanta.
His last two years in Atlanta he was one of the 10 most expensive players in the NL. Given his injuries, his position change, and his slight offensive decline, he wasn't worth continuing to pay at that level.
While Horner was a victim of collusion, his injury problems clearly did not start in Japan. Every ML team had to be afraid by then of giving him a disasterous multi-year contract. Considering his health and conditioning, by 1987 it would have come as a much bigger surprise if he did have a long and productive career left ahead of him.
Babe Ruth is a 3.361. I suspect we are looking for a guy with a long career who played for many teams in the 40's or 50's.
Pittsburgh failure, then and now:
This is wicked cool.
Casey Stengel, 3.462
http://www.baseball-reference.com/o/o'rouji01.shtml
Aaron Sele 4.281
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. it should be fixed now.
Frank Robinson: 3.170
Hank Blalock is 10 steps away from 3 players; does the dial go up to 11?
Tom Foley is a 6.443
Dave Coggin 4.567
It was only after Ryan's post that I realized Ed Duffy and Tom Foley were teammates. ;) Both played only in 1871.
I need to go to bed...
For whatever reason, the 1871 White Stockings were particularly badly-connected (all the other one-year National Association players in the league were more connected than Foley and Duffy), meaning that any player who played one year with them is probably the co-record holder for least-connected. I haven't done a search of one-year 1872 players like the one-named Kavanaugh, however. (He's a 6.068, no one more than 9 away.)
And yeah, since no one over 10 steps appears for Foley/Duffy, I'd be pretty confident that every player in baseball can be connected 10 steps or less...
Jeremy Giambi (1998-2002) played with John Mabry (1994-2002) for the 2002 Philadelphia Phillies
Eight steps gets you from the most recent rising star (Fransisco Rodriquez) to the first: Rodriquez's teammate is Julio Rameriz who teamed with Harold Baines, who teamed with Minnie Minoso who teamed with Phil Cavaretta who teamed with Charlie Grimm who teamed with Red Ames who teamed with Jim O'Rourke who played in the National Association with Ross Barnes.
Only 9 steps from Al Barker to Brandon Backe? Pretty impressive seeing as how that's the most obscure combo I could come up with.
What's the longest chain anyone here can come up with?
Needless to say,Cap was none too pleased
Yes. After suffering through an ineffective year and ending up stuck on 299 in 1962, the White Sox released him, but his old team, the Indians, took him on as kind of a playing coach in order to get a chance at #300. He actually pitched rather effectively, and managed to squeak out the one victory in one of his rare starts, I believe in July.
"Basically what I have learned tonight is that the baseball universe centers around the great Harold Baines, Minnie Minoso, Phil Cavaretta link."
Absolutely. Makes sense if you think about it - Minnie's 2.983, Phil's 2.969, Baines is a measely 3.401 & between them they cover 67 years. Sure, 16 of those years none were really playing expect for Minnie's 2 quickie stops, but then can get to just about anyone in that era in 1-2 steps.
Rickey (1979-2002) of course ruins the fun...by not being a pathetic wanker SS.
Frank Robinson (1956-1976) played with Buddy Bell (1972-1989) for the 1976 Cleveland Indians
Buddy Bell (1972-1989) played with Dennis Eckersley (1975-1998) for the 1976 Cleveland Indians
Dennis Eckersley (1975-1998) played with David Bell (1995-2002) for the 1997 St. Louis Cardinals
Since you can cut Buddy Bell out of the link, I guess it's really true that it skips a generation...
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Bobby Bonds (1968-1981) played with Danny Darwin (1978-1998) for the 1978 Texas Rangers
Danny Darwin (1978-1998) played with Barry Bonds (1986-2002) for the 1997 San Francisco Giants
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Pete Rose (1963-1986) played with Barry Larkin (1986-2002) for the 1986 Cincinnati Reds
Ken Griffey Sr. (1973-1991) played with Ken Griffey Jr. (1989-2002) for the 1990 Seattle Mariners
Jerry Reuss played with Matty and Jesus Alou, as well as Moises Alou.
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