The 2009 UZR fielding data through last night’s games is now available. Remember that it’s a really small sample size. UZR should be updated at least every Sunday.
I believe everything is now running pretty smoothly on the site after what was an extremely chaotic first week behind the scenes. Last thing that needs to get done is minor league data and I’m hoping to kick that off starting tomorrow.
All the twitter feeds are now up and running. Hopefully we won’t experience any further issues! Do remember these are still all in beta. For those of you who are hearing about this for the first time, we have twitter feeds available for each and every team that transmit the game state, last play, and win probability.
There’s the full feed (every play) and the quick feed (end of inning, score change, and important plays). Here are the twitter links:
Team: Full Feed Quick Feed Angels: angels_fg angels_qf Astros: astros_fg astros_qf Athletics: athletics_fg athletics_qf Blue Jays: bluejays_fg bluejays_qf Braves: braves_fg braves_qf Brewers: brewers_fg brewers_qf Cardinals: cardinals_fg cardinals_qf Cubs: cubs_fg cubs_qf Diamondbacks: diamondbacks_fg diamondbacks_qf Dodgers: dodgers_fg dodgers_qf Giants: giants_fg giants_qf Indians: indians_fg indians_qf Mariners: mariners_fg mariners_qf Marlins: marlins_fg marlins_qf Mets: mets_fg mets_qf Nationals: nationals_fg nationals_qf Orioles: orioles_fg orioles_qf Padres: padres_fg padres_qf Phillies: phillies_fg phillies_qf Pirates: pirates_fg pirates_qf Rangers: rangers_fg rangers_qf Rays: rays_fg rays_qf Reds: reds_fg reds_qf Red Sox: redsox_fg redsox_qf Rockies: rockies_fg rockies_qf Royals: royals_fg royals_qf Tigers: tigers_fg tigers_qf Twins: twins_fg twins_qf White Sox: whitesox_fg whitesox_qf Yankees: yankees_fg yankees_qf
After the outage yesterday, live data will be up and running again today. We are working on the twitter feeds and expect to have those working again sometime today or tomorrow. Thanks for your patience!
Well, we’re having some issues with the twitter feeds, so I suspect we will not have any live twitter updates until tomorrow, maybe end of the week at the latest. Sorry for the inconvenience and we hope to have everything up and running as soon as we can.
All live data on the site should be working well again.
Added a quick little feature that people seem to have wanted for a while now. You can now click on the “show average” button:
If you click on the button it brings up the averages for each year:
You can then click on the show averages button again to hide the average data.
I realize it’s a little tricky to read and there are definitely better ways I can think of doing it, but I feel this is a nice stopgap until I can do things how I would have preferred. This will probably make its way into some of the other tables too, like the advanced data section.
After a bit of a delay, looks like everything is up and running with 2009 stats (all of one game). UZR is the only thing not yet updated and I’m hoping to start updating that either later this week, or during the weekend.
We had issues with live data last night, but we believe them to be resolved and plan to start having all the live games starting today. There might be a few issues to work through in the first week, but hopefully everything will 100% working by week 2 at the very latest. Thanks for your patience.
Oh, and as a peace offering we’ve snuck in 2002-2004 pitch type & velocity data.
For those of you who visited FanGraphs for the first time this off-season, you may not realize that we track every game’s win probability in real time during the season. This year, we’re also going to “tweet” every play and win probability in real time! We have twitter feeds set up for each team, so you can follow your favorite team on your cell phone or through a twitter application of your choice.
We will be tweeting all 162 games for each team, the all-star game, and the playoffs.
There are two types of feeds for each team. The full version, and the lite version. The full version is every single play and the lite version is end of inning plays, significant score changes, and any play that changes the win probability more than 10%. I suspect the full feed will have about 70-100 updates a game, while the lite version will have 20-30 a game.
Consider these feeds in beta! I have tested them a bunch of times this off-season, but there still might be some issues. I’ll definitely take suggestions on these feeds but remember there’s a 140 character limit on tweets.
Example Tweet: 2-9, 0 % to Win, Top 9, 3 Outs, ___, Jay Payton flied out to second .
It gives you the score (with the team your followings score first), the % chance the team your following is going to win the game, the inning, the outs, the base state ( ___ means no one on, _23 would be runners on 2nd and 3rd), and the last play(s).
You can sign up for as many feeds as you like, but be warned, you will receive two tweets per game update if two teams are playing each other and you are subscribed to both feeds.
The Feeds: The full feed is followed by an _fg, so the yankees full feed would be “yankees_fg”. The quick feeds are followed by a _qf so it would be “yankees_qf”
Team: Full Feed Quick Feed Angels: angels_fg angels_qf Astros: astros_fg astros_qf Athletics: athletics_fg athletics_qf Blue Jays: bluejays_fg bluejays_qf Braves: braves_fg braves_qf Brewers: brewers_fg brewers_qf Cardinals: cardinals_fg cardinals_qf Cubs: cubs_fg cubs_qf Diamondbacks: diamondbacks_fg diamondbacks_qf Dodgers: dodgers_fg dodgers_qf Giants: giants_fg giants_qf Indians: indians_fg indians_qf Mariners: mariners_fg mariners_qf Marlins: marlins_fg marlins_qf Mets: mets_fg mets_qf Nationals: nationals_fg nationals_qf Orioles: orioles_fg orioles_qf Padres: padres_fg padres_qf Phillies: phillies_fg phillies_qf Pirates: pirates_fg pirates_qf Rangers: rangers_fg rangers_qf Rays: rays_fg rays_qf Reds: reds_fg reds_qf Red Sox: redsox_fg redsox_qf Rockies: rockies_fg rockies_qf Royals: royals_fg royals_qf Tigers: tigers_fg tigers_qf Twins: twins_fg twins_qf White Sox: whitesox_fg whitesox_qf Yankees: yankees_fg yankees_qf
From the most recent Sports Illustrated: Baseball’s Next Top Models
This winter Lichtman, who left the Cardinals after the 2005 season, made UZR—considered by many to be the most comprehensive defensive metric out there—available to the public on the website FanGraphs, which will update player stats weekly during the season. “The funny thing is, all this information is now available free for anyone to see, so there’s really no reason for teams to do their own thing,” says Lichtman. “Yet it’s clear that half to three quarters of the teams still have no clue how to evaluate defense on that level and how to interpret that into a player’s overall value.”
It’s nice to see UZR and the others becoming more mainstream!
While I was reworking some FanGraphs logos I noticed a striking similarity between 8 of the team’s colors choices. These are taken straight out of the team’s logos I found at sportslogo.net. You would think that there would be a little more variation in the colors used, with three of the teams even using the exact same red. You can hover over the images to see which team is which:
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There are now career leaderboards for the Standard, Advanced, Batted Ball, and Win Values stats sections for both batters and pitchers. The Win Values and Batted Ball leaderboards do not include data prior to 2002 because we just don’t have that data yet. Also, I’ve set the minimum PA and IP at 1000, but you can change it to whatever you want.
There will be Win Probability and Fielding career leaderboards eventually, but it’s going to take a bit more work.