FanGraphs has had some sort of user forums since it started and generally it’s a place where people go to ask questions about either the site, fantasy baseball, or sabermetrics in general.

Today we’re launching FanGraphs Q&A, which will hopefully allow for better discussion and allow for good answers to questions to be found much more easily than in the past.

To kick things off, we’re moving our RotoGraphs fantasy mailbag to FanGraphs Q&A where our RotoGraphs team will continue to answer questions and the rest of the FanGraphs community will also be able to chime in and help too.

Our game logs have been updated to include all the stats sections available on FanGraphs!

Here’s the full rundown of the new features:

– Includes the majority of our stats sections including the Dashboard, Standard, Advanced, Batted Ball, More Batted Ball, Win Probability, Pitch Type, Pitch Value, Plate Discipline and all PITCHf/x sections.

– Date filtering allows you to select the exact time range of a player’s career (dating back to 1974) that you want to see, even spanning multiple seasons.

– Minor League game logs are available for all players dating back to 2006.

Internship – Baseball Operations/Decision Sciences – ASP.net – Houston Astros Baseball Club (Houston, TX)

**Read the information below COMPLETELY. Failure to follow the instructions will affect your candidacy.

PLEASE NOTE:
• If selected for an interview, you will be asked to come to Minute Maid Park in person. You will be responsible for any travel arrangements you choose to make for interview purposes.

• The Astros offer scholarships to eligible students. The Houston Astros Internship Scholarship Program has been established to increase opportunities for undergraduate students of limited financial means to be able to complete full time internships with the club.
• These are full time, unpaid internship opportunities, which require interns to work a 32 to 40 hour work week. In addition, it is mandatory that the candidate receive college credit for their participation in the internship program.
• Specific duties and responsibilities will vary based upon the department but this is a “hands on” internship opportunity.
• If there is a requirement such as language fluency or computer program knowledge, you MUST meet that requirement before selecting that as a department of interest.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
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In the FanGraphs Guts! page, you’ll now find a bunch of component park factors, included park factors by handedness.

All park factors are calculated using this 5 year regressed version.

Software Development Intern – Cincinnati Reds (Cincinnati, OH)

Department: Baseball Operations
Job Title: Software Development Intern
Reports To: Manager of Baseball Research and Analysis, Manager of Baseball Systems Development
FLSA: Hourly, Non Exempt

Job Purpose: The Cincinnati Reds are currently seeking a Baseball Operations Software Development Intern. This position reports to the Baseball Operations staff and will assist in the development and operation of the department’s player information and evaluation system. This position requires strong statistical, database management, and software development skills and experience, as well as a demonstrated ability for independent thought and for working within a team framework.

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It’s already been one full month since FanGraphs: The Game started. We think it’s been a great first month, with over 10,641 players already created and 75,918 manual picks (plus 34,493 autopicks) entered in total.

Don’t forget: it’s not too late to create your own player. There are still 152 days left in the season, which means your player can play 152 games if you started today. That’s easily enough to give you a chance at the top prize. Not to mention there are weekly, monthly, and half-season awards.

You can join the fun anytime to compete against your friends with our custom leagues even if the top prize for the year is out of reach.

Now let’s give kudos to the positional awards winners for the month of April (with March included).

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In the player pages there is a new section called “Live”, which has live stats from the game(s) a player played in today, and then an updated year-to-date stats line for them.

Basically, you no longer need to wait until 4:30-ish AM to see how the day’s games changed a player’s most popular full season stats.

WAR is now available for in-season ZiPS! This goes for both the “rest-of-season” projection (ZiPS R) and the updated full-season projection (ZiPS U).

These are of course made possible by Dan Szymborski and the projections he provided in the 2012 ZiPS Projections, Final Edition.

These are now available in both the projections pages and the player pages.

Please note the following:

– There is no base-running component factored into the in-season ZiPS WAR projections.

– Original ZiPS fielding projections have been regressed by 22%.

– These are park adjusted.

– These are currently only available for position players, we may add pitchers later.

wOBA is now available for pitchers in both the splits leaderboards and the splits player pages.

There was a slight bug in the system and if you have picked a player from either game of the Giants / Mets games today, the actual game of the double header you picked was not recorded.

I have fixed starting pitchers, because that was easy, but if you have picked a relief pitcher or a position player, please double check which game of the double header you picked for your player.

There are 139 picks that this impacts. Any picks made after this post are okay.

If you do not see this post in time for picks to lock, or notice an issue tomorrow, please fill out a contact form and we will fix it for you.