I’m pleased to announce that Joshua Maciel’s original WAR Grids are now automated for you to create your very own. Also a big thanks to Dave Allen for his help.
Here’s what one looks like for the top 25 WAR leaders since the year 2000.
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I’d like to solicit the help of our community in building a useful fantasy player valuations guide. When we have the parameters set, I’ll code it and put it up on FanGraphs.
There are a couple goals here:
1. Building a useful and easy to use fantasy player valuation guide.
2. Full transparency in how all the rankings work.
I’ve dabbled in this a bit, so I will first give a starting point:
The selection of multiple seasons that was made available in the leaderboards section has now been rolled out to the team pages and My Team section sof the site.
Now it’s easy to find which Yankees player had the most WAR since 1996.
Or, which team had the worst offense since 2006.
On the leaderboards you can now filter by multiple seasons going all the way back to 1871.
There are a couple caveats, in that some sections of the leaderboard only go back so far. The Batted Ball, Pitch Type, Pitch Value and Plate Discipline sections can only go back to 2002, and the Win Probability section only goes back to 1974. Splits will also only go back to 2002 and monthly splits currently only for single seasons right now. I’ve included a label which shows exactly which seasons you’re looking at, even if you’ve selected something else.
For instance, if you’ve selected dates between 1980 and 2004 and you go the the Batted Ball section, you’ll only see the dates between 2002 and 2004.
If you’re filtering huge date ranges, please be a little more patient than usual because it may take a few seconds more to grab all the data.
This feature will be making its way to the other sortable stats sections fairly soon.
On all the leaderboards pages, you can now filter by all sorts of splits, including handedness, batted ball type, home/away, leverage, etc…
Want to know who the 4th best qualified pull hitter was last season according to wRC+? No problem; it was Paul Konerko.
How about which second baseman hit the most home runs against right handed pitchers?
Or even which pitcher had the lowest FIP on the road?
Splits filtering can also be done at the full team level, in the team pages, and in the My Team sections of the site.
The 2011 Fan Projections ballots are now open for you to project your favorite players!
Last year we ran the first annual Fan Projection ballot here on FanGraphs and you responded with over 50,000 ballots to make the project a huge success! According to Tangotiger’s Forecaster Challenge you collectively ranked 10th out of 21 overall. Not a bad showing for the first time around.
Here’s a quick look at the projection ballot:
Before you can project any players, you’ll have to select the team you follow most closely towards the top of the screen. If you really don’t follow a team, just pick one. You’ll only have to do this once.
After you’ve selected a team, there are 9 categories for pitchers and 10 categories for position players. Pick the values in the drop-down boxes closest to what you think the player will do in 2010, hit the submit button and you’re done! If you made a mistake, you can always go back and change your selection at any time.
Please note that everything this year is a rate stat. You’re projecting 2B+3B, HR, SB, and Fielding as a measure of 150 games (basically a full season). The player’s previous stats are shown per 150 games in the projection ballot too. This will make changing playing time projections much easier as you’ll only have to change the games played portion.
That’s really all there is to it. You can filter players by team, or if you go to the player pages, you can project players individually. If you want to see all the players you’ve projected, you can click on the “My Rankings” button which will show you only what you specifically projected a player to do.
Fan Projections will show up on the player pages after there have been 15 ballots submitted.
If you do notice any issues, please let us know.
For a limited time the FanGraphs iPhone app is on sale for $0.99.
Existing and new owners of the app will also find the 2011 Bill James projections in the player pages. I can also confirm that the app will include live and updated data for the 2011 season.
I’ve added a new stat to the PitchF/x section, “Pace”, inspired by this post over at Beyond the Box Score, which shows how much time each pitcher takes in between his pitches.
The way I calculate Pace, is by taking the difference between the start time of the first pitch in the plate appearance, and the end time of the last pitch in the plate appearance. I then divide by the number of pitches in that plate appearance (minus 1). Pickoff attempts are considered just another pitch, since they don’t have time stamps of their own. Anything that looks like a game delay between pitches is thrown out. The average pace is about 21.5 seconds.
Kicking off projection season, as usual, are the 2011 Bill James Handbook Projections, courtesy of Baseball Info Solutions.
They’re available right now in the player pages!
The leaderboards and team pages now have a bunch of new features!
– There’s a new Dashboard tab which mimics the stats shown the player dashboard area.
– wRC+, tERA, FSR, and TZL (Total Zone w/ Location Data) have been added.
– The Fans Scouting Report has been given its own section.
– WAR data for both batters and pitchers can now be filtered on a monthly basis. This is done by pro-rating UZR and Positional adjustments based on playing time.
– You can now go back as far as 1871 in both the leaderboards and team sections.
Here are some additional notes:
– All positional filtering is done on a qualified player basis. If a player played in 25% or more of his games at a particular position than he’s qualified.
– Reliever/Starter filtering pre-1974 right now will filter only on pure starters/relievers and any dual-role pitchers will be left out. This will be fixed in a future update.
If you notice any problems or spot any bugs, please let us know!
