Company Overview

Baseball Info Solutions (BIS) is committed to providing the most accurate, in-depth, timely professional baseball data, including cutting-edge research and analysis, striving to educate major league teams and the public about baseball analytics.

We are seeking highly motivated individuals with a passion for baseball to join our team.

.NET Developer

Would you like to launch your software development career working with the latest .NET tools and technologies? Would you be interested in working closely with a small team of senior developers to create new products and features in a baseball centric environment? Baseball Info Solutions is seeking a Junior .NET Developer in our Coplay, PA office to help deliver new web-based products to our customers. This is a great opportunity in a casual office environment with one of the leading providers of in depth baseball statistics.

The candidate will develop assist in developing new products as well as help maintain existing products. Strong candidates will possess a self-motivated attitude, great communication skills, and be able to work in a collaborative, team environment or independently as needed.

Candidates must possess:

• Develop new features, applications and maintain existing applications.
• Full life-cycle development.
• Web development in C# and Asp.NET 4.0.
• Full understanding of Asp.NET using a C# object oriented code base.
• Understanding of SSRS.
• HTML and CSS
• In depth knowledge of MS Development tools
• Knowledge of baseball statistics and analytics.
• SQL Server Development is a plus.

Skills and Qualifications:

For more information or to apply, please submit your résumé and cover letter to careers2013@baseballinfosolutions.com.

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2014 Video Scouts

BIS Video Scouts watch multiple games per day throughout the season and record their observations for our clients’ consumption. The BIS Video Scout internship is perhaps the best pipeline into a successful career in the baseball industry. Many executives inside major league front offices credit BIS for their first steps into the baseball industry.

Responsibilities:

• Score and pitch chart MLB games using specialized computer software
• Check the accuracy and validity of data
• Prepare and analyze statistical data for delivery to customers
• Assist with the production of the 2015 Bill James Handbook
• Provide administrative support to the full-time staff
• Demonstrated knowledge of baseball and baseball scorekeeping
• Ability to identify and differentiate between pitch types
• Computer proficiency and the ability to quickly learn new software
• High school or college baseball playing experience is preferred but not necessary
• Must be able to work nights and weekends
• Must be willing to work from our Allentown/Bethlehem, PA office

Qualifications:

Timeframe:

Interns will begin in either January or March and conclude at the end of the regular season (September 29th), with a possibility of extending through the middle of October.

Compensation:

An hourly rate of $7.25 and/or college course credit will be offered to each Video Scout. Anyone interested in the internship should send a cover letter and resume to Dan Casey at dan@baseballinfosolutions.com.

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Research & Development Intern

Baseball Info Solutions is looking for candidates to fill a paid internship in our R&D Department in the spring and/or summer seasons.  The intern will work out of our office near Allentown, PA and will assist our R&D team, supporting research for publications and future products, including Stat of the Week, The Bill James Handbook, and The Fielding Bible.  Recent R&D interns have landed internships and full-time jobs with major league teams.

The position requires a variety of skills including (but not limited to) an analytical mind, computer expertise, writing ability, and a passion for baseball.

Ideal candidates will possess:

• Knowledge of and familiarity with baseball and sabermetric research
• Analytical/Mathematical ability
• Proficiency working in Microsoft Office programs (or equivalents), especially Excel
• Experience with MySQL, SQL Server, or similar databases.
• An ability to write and communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
• An ability to work both collaboratively and independently
• Experience with other statistical packages, programming languages, and/or graphical visualizations would be a plus.

For more information or to apply, please submit your résumé and cover letter to careers@baseballinfosolutions.com.

Spray Charts for both batted balls, and fielded ball location are now available for all players from 2012 to 2013. All data for these charts is provided by Inside Edge.

There are a variety of different spray charts available and a number of filtering options for each. A little tip is you can click on any of the items in the legend to make them disappear / reappear on the chart.

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Join our team as an Analytics/Operations Intern for TrackMan Baseball, a US based sports technology firm.  You will take on a critical role in a small, fast moving entrepreneurial company that is breaking new ground in sports.

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MGL (Mitchel Licthman), the man behind UZR and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball, has a new spot where he’ll be sharing his baseball research and game strategy analysis.

Head over to baseballsolutions.org to read his playoff analysis and more!

From the site’s about page:

As the sole author of this site, I take full responsibility for everything in it . Feel free to comment, if comments be allowed; however, if I don’t like your comment for any reason, I will delete it. I am also quite grumpy, so if you don’t like surly, pettish, fractious, and sometimes downright churlish banter, this may not be the blog for you. However, if you like to read about occasionally interesting baseball analysis, this is definitely the site for you.

Be sure to take a moment and fill out a ballot for this year’s Fan’s Scouting Report!

We end up displaying the results on FanGraphs each year, so your participation is much appreciated!

Cleveland Indians Data Architect – Baseball Systems

Description

The primary purpose of the job is to design, implement, and manage the Baseball Department’s information architecture. The Data Architect will partner with the Baseball Analytics and Software Development groups to maintain data infrastructure, support needs, implement solutions, and drive innovation in baseball’s data-driven decision process. Key functions will include data modeling, integration, warehousing, and consumption.

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I’m pleased to announce that earlier this year, coolstandings.com joined the FanGraphs family and we’ve now integrated their playoff odds into FanGraphs, with some additional features available here on our site as well.

I’ve always been an admirer of the work Greg Agami and Sean Walsh did at coolstandings.com, and we couldn’t be more pleased to have their product as a part of FanGraphs. And we’re excited about using some of the data available on FanGraphs to make the forecasts even better.

There are currently three different ways we simulate the season to generate the playoff odds:

FanGraphs Projections Mode – This mode uses the combination of Steamer and ZiPS projections, along with the updated FanGraphs Depth Charts, to calculate the expected winning percentage of each remaining game in the major league season. This model incorporates the latest updates to each team’s roster, including injuries, acquisitions, and adjusted playing time allocations.

Season to Date Stats Mode – This mode uses current season to date statistics, weighted more heavily towards the most recent games, to calculate the expected winning percentage of each remaining game in the major league season. (This is the old “Smart” mode on coolstandings.com)

Coin Flip Mode – This mode uses a coin flip to determine the winner of each game, giving each matchup 50/50 odds. (This is the old “Dumb” mode on coolstandings.com)

The coolstandings models incorporate actual remaining schedules into their forecasts, so in addition to the estimates of each team’s talent, the strength of their upcoming opponents is also included, and the simulations are run 10,000 times hourly.

In addition to the standard odds of winning the division or earning a place in the wild card play-in game, we also have the odds of each team winning each level of the playoffs all the way up to odds of winning the World Series.

Right now we’re showing the current playoff odds, but you can visit coolstandings.com for all the historical playoff odds. We’ll also be adding these to FanGraphs in short time. You can find a permanent link to the Playoff Odds from the Standings drop down in the toolbar at the top of the site.

Web Application Developer, Baseball Development

The St. Louis Cardinals are seeking a web application developer with a passion for baseball. This developer will collaborate with the Baseball Development team to build the Cardinals’ next generation of baseball analytics and scouting applications. The ideal candidate is a versatile developer with demonstrated ability for working within a team framework

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with baseball operations decision-makers to define and develop new applications
• Adapt existing applications for mobile environments
• Create tests and documentation around new features and functionality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 2 years experience as software engineer / web developer
• Proficiency with front-end web development technologies (including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks)
• Strong understanding of mobile UI/UX design concepts and demonstrated ability to apply responsive design techniques
• Familiarity with server-side web programming frameworks and SQL Server or other relational database systems
• Passion for baseball, strong intellectual curiosity and communication skills

To apply, please send your resume to ccorrea@cardinals.com

FanGraphs will be not be accessible for about 2 hours sometime between 12:00am ET and 5:00am ET this morning (July 22nd) for server maintenance.

Mobile Application Developer, Baseball Operations – New York Yankees (Bronx, NY)

Primary Responsibilities:
• Assist in the development of our next-generation scouting application
• Analyze existing systems to extract requirements
• Develop an application architecture/design
• Integrate with existing analytics tools, web-applications, and databases

Qualifications and Experience:
•Proficient in mobile web development technologies: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, and/or other mobile-optimized JavaScript frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience in native application development (iOS, Android, Windows) and the use of native application wrappers such as PhoneGap, Appcelerator, etc.
• Experience developing backend SOAP/REST web services in .NET/C#
• An understanding of mobile UI/UX design concepts, and a demonstrated ability to deliver an outstanding user experience in a mobile environment
• Strong SQL skills developing complex queries, stored procedures, functions in Microsoft SQL Server or other relational databases
• Experience in handling the entire lifecycle of mobile application development (requirements, design, code, test, debug, deploy, and maintain)
• Ability to decompose existing systems, extract functional requirements, and develop an application architecture with minimal technical guidance
• Ability to work independently with strong worth ethic and communication skills
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
*Full-time telecommuting available under the right circumstances.

This description is intended to describe the type of work being performed by a person assigned to this position. It is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required by the employee. The New York Yankees is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants for employment.

Note: When you apply for this job online, you will be required to answer the following questions:

1. Do you have experience in handling the entire lifecycle of mobile application development (requirements, design, code, test, debug, deploy, and maintain)?

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