Baseball Graphs

Holy Cow, Sean Forman

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?

Click on this

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.