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New Game Logs!

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.


Park Factors Added to FanGraphs Guts!

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.


Live Player Stats!

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.


In-Season ZiPS WAR

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 Pitching Splits

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


FanGraphs Guts! (wOBA & FIP Constants)

One of the frequently asked questions we get is what are the wOBA constants for a particular season, or what is the FIP constant?

Now there is a single exportable page with all the answers: FanGraphs Guts!

– Any field with a “w” in front of it is a wOBA constant

– R/PA is runs per plate appearance

– R/W is the runs to wins conversion number

– cFIP is the FIP constant


Live Embedded Game Graphs

If you run a blog or a website and you’re interested in having live win probability graphs, you can now easily embed a FanGraphs win probability graph that will update in realtime.

Here’s how to do it:

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$0.99 FanGraphs iPhone App

In honor of opening day, the FanGraphs iPhone App has been discounted to $0.99 for today only!

FanGraphs App iTunes Link


Age Filters!

Age filtering is now available on the leaderboards for full season batting and pitching stats. This will forever be known as the Dave Cameron feature, because he’s been asking for this in increased frequency for quite a while now.

There’s lots of neat stuff you can do with this, like see all qualified batters in their age 18-24 seasons since 2005.

Or maybe which teams have benefited the most from pitchers age 30 and up since 2000.

Basically, you can now slice and dice by age to your hearts content.


FanGraphs: The Game – Custom Leagues

Custom Leagues are now available for FanGraphs: The Game!

If you and a group of your friends would like to have any easy way to see how you players stack up against each other on the leaderboards, just create a Custom League:

When you create a Custom League, anyone you add to the league will then see that league show up on their FanGraphs: The Game dashboard for easy access.

If you are added to a league that you don’t want to be a part of, you can go to the Custom League page and hide the league from your dashboard:

Custom Leagues use your already existing players and don’t impact the way the game is played at all. You can join as many or as few Custom Leagues as you like.