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khilgen

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:10 am
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I know teams and media have access to Stats, Inc to perform custom
queries on their databases and pull great statistics. My question is
how does an average fan have the ability to query something like
that? For example, I am currently interested in the all time success
percentage of stealing 3rd base. Does anyone know of a great website
that has tons of statistical information? I'd even be satisfied to
see what the success rate was in 2006 for instance...figuring year in
and year out it might be pretty similar.

Thoughts?

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:32 am
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khilgen.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:

> I know teams and media have access to Stats, Inc to perform custom
> queries on their databases and pull great statistics. My question is
> how does an average fan have the ability to query something like
> that? For example, I am currently interested in the all time success
> percentage of stealing 3rd base. Does anyone know of a great website
> that has tons of statistical information? I'd even be satisfied to
> see what the success rate was in 2006 for instance...figuring year in
> and year out it might be pretty similar.
>


You can get custom searches from Stats, Inc (at least you could do it
back in the early 90s, when I inquired). However, it isn't cheap
(Zminda quoted me something like $500 for the search I wanted).

paul

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Mike

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:09 pm
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khilgen DeleteThis @gmail.com trolled:

> I know teams and media have access to Stats, Inc to perform custom
> queries on their databases and pull great statistics. My question
> is

"Great statistics" is an oxymoron. Sit back and enjoy the game for
what it is, as it is playing.

> how does an average fan have the ability to query something like
> that? For example, I am currently interested in the all time success
> percentage of stealing 3rd base.

Why? For every player, on every team, against every pitcher and
catcher on every team, that number is different. So what is the
point of knowing an average? This knowledge will not enhance your
understanding of the game in any way, so what is the point?

> Does anyone know of a great website that has tons of statistical
> information?

Sigh. Ok, here's one. http://www.bwba.org/stats.html

cordially, as always,

rm
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:49 pm
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On Jun 21, 6:10 am, khil....RemoveThis@gmail.com wrote:
> I know teams and media have access to Stats, Inc to perform custom
> queries on their databases and pull great statistics. My question is
> how does an average fan have the ability to query something like
> that? For example, I am currently interested in the all time success
> percentage of stealing 3rd base. Does anyone know of a great website
> that has tons of statistical information? I'd even be satisfied to
> see what the success rate was in 2006 for instance...figuring year in
> and year out it might be pretty similar.
>
> Thoughts?

Start with:

www.retrosheet.org and looks for the Game Logs.

A second place would be www.baseball-reference.com and look for the
Play Index.

For seasonal information, go to www.baseball1.com and download the
Lahman database. If you have any basic MS Access skills, you can do a
lot with that DB.

Finally, there's http://www.baseball-databank.org/ which I haven't
used, but seems to have a lot of stuff.

Enjoy.
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