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Saturday, August 29, 2009

BB-Ref Blog: Share Table (beta)

One of the underlying principles for the site has been to make it easy to share data. We’ve done that by supporting the baseball-databank.org and retrosheet and we’ve done that by providing options like CSV and PRE above each of the tables on the site.

These options are helpful to power users who understand excel and don’t mind taking a little time to learn new things, but for users who just want a quick and dirty table, it has always been a little too
hard to copy and paste what’s on the site. We’ve solved that problem and dramatically increased the ways and means you can share data on the site.

Just another feature to come on BB-Ref. Pretty ####### cool as you can move columns around in javascript, etc and easily share the data.

Shock Posted: August 29, 2009 at 05:45 AM | 11 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. Sean Forman Posted: August 29, 2009 at 11:47 AM (#3308479)

It anyone gets a bug or needs an output format not supported by the tool right now, let me know. BTW, here are Babe Ruth's top ten slugging seasons. Took one minute.

Year   Age  Tm    PA    SLG
1920    25 NYY   615   .849
1921    26 NYY   693   .846
1927    32 NYY   691   .772
1923    28 NYY   699   .764
1924    29 NYY   681   .739
1926    31 NYY   652   .737
1930    35 NYY   676   .732
1928    33 NYY   684   .709
1931    36 NYY   663   .700
1929    34 NYY   587   .697
22 Seasons     10616 *.690* 

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/29/2009.

edit: looks like I need a btf feature under pre-formatted. For now you can choose pre-formatted, bbcode and then change the <pre>'s to code's to get it to work.

2. Sean Forman Posted: August 29, 2009 at 12:26 PM (#3308485)

Under pre-formatted output, there is now an option for code_wrap which will provide you with what you need to add a post to btf.

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/29/2009.

3. Dan Szymborski

Posted: August 29, 2009 at 01:14 PM (#3308493)

You're definitely some kind of warlock to get preformatted text to appear correctly in a comment here!

4. Shock Posted: August 29, 2009 at 04:46 PM (#3308561)

I just think this will come in handy for comparing players. No more copying to excel/notepad to delete columns I don't need. And to show the tables on bbtf so they're readable is a plus. Thanks Sean!

Year               PA  2B
1923              699  45
1921              693  44
1924              681  39
1920              615  36
1919              542  34
1931              663  31
1926              652  30
22 Seasons      10616 506
162 Game Avg.     687  33
NYY (15 yrs)     9197 424
BOS (6 yrs)      1327  82
BSN (1 yr)         92   0
AL (21 yrs)     10524 506
NL (1 yr)          92   0 

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/29/2009.

5. Lassus Posted: August 29, 2009 at 06:31 PM (#3308606)

Has the joke already been made about fear of Sean eventually renaming his operation "Skynet"?

6. Harold Posted: August 29, 2009 at 07:38 PM (#3308635)

Let me give it a whirl. Babe's seasons sorted by HR.

Year   Age  Tm  PA HR   OPS OPS+  TB
1927    32 NYY 691 60 1.258  226 417
1921    26 NYY 693 59 1.359  239 457
1928    33 NYY 684 54 1.172  208 380
1920    25 NYY 615 54 1.382  256 388
1930    35 NYY 676 49 1.225  211 379
1926    31 NYY 652 47 1.253  225 365
1931    36 NYY 663 46 1.195  218 374
1929    34 NYY 587 46 1.128  193 348
1924    29 NYY 681 46 1.252  220 391
1932    37 NYY 589 41 1.150  201 302
1923    28 NYY 699 41 1.309  239 399
1922    27 NYY 495 35 1.106  182 273
1933    38 NYY 575 34 1.023  176 267
1919    24 BOS 542 29 1.114  219 284
1925    30 NYY 426 25  .936  137 195
1934    39 NYY 471 22  .985  161 196
1918    23 BOS 380 11  .966  194 176
1935    40 BSN  92  6  .789  118  31
1915    20 BOS 103  4  .952  189  53
1916    21 BOS 150  3  .741  121  57
1917    22 BOS 142  2  .857  162  58
1914    19 BOS  10  0  .500   50   3 

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Original Table
Generated 8/29/2009.

Awesome, Sean.

7. puck Posted: August 29, 2009 at 07:44 PM (#3308638)

Edit: ee won't take the html table...other sites will, though, so that's a pretty cool feature.

8. Sean Forman Posted: August 29, 2009 at 07:48 PM (#3308641)

Edit: ee won't take the html table...other sites will, though, so that's a pretty cool feature.

puck, are you talking about btf or another site. You have a lot of different options for posting for one will likely work. For btf you have to use, pre-formatted and then click code wrap to get the proper code for btf. If you have another site it isn't working on let me know and I'll work on creating a solution.

9. Mister High Standards Posted: August 29, 2009 at 08:31 PM (#3308661)

great work Sean.

10. David Nieporent (now, with children) Posted: August 29, 2009 at 09:37 PM (#3308699)

Has the joke already been made about fear of Sean eventually renaming his operation "Skynet"?

Uh, if Skynet were bb-ref, it would have been too busy figuring out the top 25 stolen base percentages by a 35 year old, minimum 15 attempts, to start judgment day.

11. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: August 29, 2009 at 10:31 PM (#3308744)

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