I initially created Baseball Graphs to develop new and better ways of presenting baseball statistics. The 2003 season was my first full-season attempt, and it turned out pretty well. I now spend a lot of my time creating and formatting the baseball stats at The Hardball Times.
Along the way, I've also picked up the writing bug. I spend most of my energy writing for THT, but sometimes I like to write about more geeky stuff, baseball research and things like that. That's what this blog is for.
I'm very interested in graphics and other information display, so I'll probably post links to creative stuff like that. I also plan to write historical articles that complement the historical graphs. And I have inexplicably developed an interest in baseball win-related stats, such as Bill James's Win Shares and something called Win Probability Added. So you can expect a few posts about that stuff too.
If you're interested, I've created a complex spreadsheet full of WPA logic, which you can download at ftp.baseballgraphs.com/wpa. If you'd like to read more about Win Shares, try these links:
Win Shares Intro
Have you seen the newest feature at Baseball Reference? Box Scores for every game during the Retrosheet Era. This is truly amazing.
You could find boxscores on the Retrosheet site in the past, but Sean (the proprietor of Baseball Reference) has added several remarkable twists. In particular, he has added popup windows (click on any red text) that adds amazing context to the stats and the play-by-play. For example, this is an all-time favorite game of mine; click on Jimmy Qualls’s three at bats. Grrr….
I’m not seeing the significance of Qualls’ three ABs in this game? Is it just that he got the hit hat broke up the no-hitter?
Have you see baseball-identity.com? This is a feature I made to use Sean’s data and formatting (with Sean’s blessing). It might get incorporated into B-R one day.
Yup. I still remember that hit vividly.
Baseball-identity.com is great. And also terribly humbling.
baseball-identity.com ... all I get is a bunch of blank pages. What browser am I supposed to be using?
I fill out the parameters, but then I just get a blank sheet on the bottom half of the page - not impressive…
Looks like it stopped working.
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