By popular demand, we’ve added K% – BB% (K-BB% on all pages) to all pitchers stats sections, including leaderboards, player pages, splits, etc….

Enjoy!

We’ve updated our WAR Graphs tool to include pitcher comparisons:

Source: FanGraphs — Pedro Martinez, Clayton Kershaw, Sandy Koufax

It’s also now possible to compare batters and pitchers on the same graph:

Source: FanGraphs — Clayton Kershaw, Felix Hernandez, Justin Verlander

SQL Server Database Developer, Baseball Operations – New York Yankees (Bronx, NY)

Description:

The New York Yankees organization is accepting applications for an experienced SQL developer in their Baseball Operations department. This position reports to the senior Baseball Operations staff and will assist in the development of database systems which integrate with existing baseball analytics tools and web-applications as part of our player information and evaluation platform.

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The game log section on the player pages will now give you an extra line of data that displays the totals for the dates you selected.

For instance, if you wanted to see all of Mike Trout’s games since September 1st, 2013, you’d see he’s had a wRC+ of 172 over that same time period.

This feature is available for the minor league game logs too.

The Brewers have two Baseball Systems Openings:

Architect – Baseball Systems

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There are now splits options on the FanGraphs leaderboards that allow you to see exactly how a player performed at an individual position. These positional splits also include a Value tab, so you can see a player’s WAR totals and components at a specific position.

Please note that these are different from the existing positional filters, which filter on qualified players (25% of games played) at a particular position. The new splits will only show the stats for a player while he was playing a specific position.

This is particularly useful at the team and league level where you don’t want full season stats from players who play multiple positions in your leaderboard.

For every game this year we’ll be projecting the odds of each team winning on our live scoreboard. We’ve also added an extra experimental line on live Win Probability graphs that adjusts for the newly calculated game odds.

To calculate these game odds we’re doing the following:

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Good news everyone! You can now make your picks in FanGraphs: The Game for the 2014 season!

Please note you will be able to change the team of any of your players up until you first spend money. So, if you want your players to be on new teams, I advise doing it before you make any picks. You can do this on the settings page.

In addition, your player will keep all of his stats from the previous two seasons and continue on to the next year of his career.

Lastly, if you had autopick set last year, it has now be unset. If you want to keep playing with autopick on, you will need to make your autopick selections again.

And for those of you who are rookies to FanGraphs: The Game…

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BSports Video Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY, US

The Role:
Join the elite team of developers at Bloomberg Sports working on our next-generation professional video solution. We are looking for a strong developer with a get-it-done attitude to help us bring our cutting edge video applications to market. This product will be used by professional sports teams to capture, encode, process, and distribute in-stadium high definition video from multiple angles simultaneously. These videos will also be integrated into Bloomberg Sports’ state-of-the-art professional analytics tool used by front offices throughout MLB.

A successful candidate will work on the core web service that binds the video solution together. In addition to an excellent grasp of technology, important attributes include excellent communication skills, a passion for sports, and the drive to help grow our company into the leader in sports analytics worldwide.

Qualifications:
– Significant experience with Java, C++
– Experience with video technologies (encoding, streaming, etc.)
– Experience with HTML5, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, SQL, iOS development is an asset
– Passionate about sports
– Advanced problem solving skills
– Strong interpersonal and communication skills
– Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a desire to design and develop sports-related software applications

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We have a new section on both the leaderboards and player pages that now displays Inside Edge fielding data.

Inside Edge scouts watch every play and grade how easy or difficult it is to successfully field on the following scale:

• Impossible (0%)
• Remote (1-10%)
• Unlikely (10-40%)
• About Even (40-60%)
• Likely (60-90%)
• Almost Certain / Certain (90-100%)

We’ve aggregated all the data and made it available for you to peruse on a player-by-player basis:

In addition, this data will be updated nightly during the 2014 season!