If you haven’t used Baseball-Reference’s Play Index feature, you need to go try it out — it’s free through Friday. I didn’t use it or know what it could do until I tried it for free last year, and now I’m hooked.
Basically, you can slice and dice historical baseball data in almost any way you can think of, without needing ANY programming skills. Here are some random examples of functionality:
- Least hits by a shortstop with at least 30 homeruns from 1975 through 1985.
- Career OPS+ leaders for Cubs catchers.
- Jason Giambi’s splits against finesse, regular, and power pitchers.
- Most consecutive games with a walk by a National Leaguer.
- Manny Ramirez’s career line against Pedro Martinez (not that it means anything).
- Gamelogs for any hitter or pitcher.
Seriously, check it out.
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Sky is a baseball fan and racket sport afficianado living in upstate NY. His favorite color is orange and is just about ready to give up on his life-long dream to become the next Magnus ver Magnuson (World's Strongest Man). His favorite baseball teams are the Yankees and Red Sox, proving that there's hope in the Middle East.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
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Most consecutive games with at least 1 balk.
Most consecutive days pitching without a day off.