As a few of you had pointed out, defensive games in the 2009 UZR data appeared to be a little on the high side. The problem has now been fixed. The fix affected only the 2009 UZR/150 and DG stats. Raw UZR values and in turn WAR should remain unchanged.
The Huffington Post today released their list of top 10 “Game Changers” in the world of sports “who are harnessing the power of new media to reshape their fields and change the world.”
I was honored to be part of the list and it’s really a testament to our incredible writing staff and of course all our visitors who have helped spread the word and have taken the time to help educate people about the usefulness of stats based analysis.
In the meantime, if you have a free minute head over to the Huffington Post and give your vote!
When we launched the iPhone App about a month ago, one of the most requested features was adding blog content to the application.
While we are definitely exploring the possibility of adding blog content to the application, in the meantime, both the FanGraphs Blog and the RotoGraphs Fantasy Baseball Blog can now be easily viewed by anyone in their mobile web browser without doing unnecessary finger gymnastics.
Just go to either of these links on your mobile browser to make reading and commenting on the go a lot easier.
Apparently for the past few days we’ve had problems sending out e-mails which would have affected anyone who tried to register, reset their password, or send us a contact form.
I apologize for the problem and it is now fixed. If you were trying to contact us in the past few days through our contact form, we unfortunately didn’t receive the message and would be happy to answer any questions you might have if you resend your inquiry.
I’ve implemented a number of changes that were required to do a single sign-on for the entirety of FanGraphs.com Unfortunately, as a result, some of your passwords will no longer work. To reset your password, all you need to do is fill out the lost password form to have a new password e-mailed to you. You can then change your password back to whatever it was before.
I realize this is somewhat annoying and I apologize for the inconvenience, but as the site grows and we implement more features that require login, it just didn’t make sense to continue with the old system.
Fortunately, everyone’s custom teams and forum posts have been completely preserved.
The immediate benefit of the change is that you can now use your FanGraphs username to comment on either of the blogs.
If anyone is having any problems retrieving their password, please fill out a contact form and I’ll try and get things squared away as quickly as possible.
I’m pleased to announce that FanGraphs has arrived on the iPhone & iPod Touch!
This initial version of the FanGraphs Baseball iPhone App includes:
– Live win probability and win probability graphs.
– Live box score and play-by-play data.
– Basic/Advanced/Value stats for any baseball player.
– Minor league stats.
– Historical game data going back to 1974.
Here are the screenshots:
The app is currently priced at $2.99 and is available now. You can either click here to take you directly to the app store page, or search for FanGraphs in iTunes.
Be sure to leave us feedback so we can start adding additional features to the next version!
Good news everyone. tRA has made its way to FanGraphs thanks to Graham MacAree of Lookout Landing and statcorner.com. tRA is currently located in the player pages under the batted ball section of stats.
Directly from the StatCorner glossary:
tRA involves assigning run and out values to all events under a pitcher’s control and coming up with an expected number of runs allowed and outs generated in a defense and park neutral environment. tRA is on a R/9 scale and does not involve any regression of the rates.
There are a couple things which are different between the StatCorner version of tRA and the version implemented on FanGraphs. The main difference is we’re using Baseball Info Solutions batted ball stats instead of Gameday batted ball stats. The other difference, though probably not as major is we’re using different park factors.
tRA will not be available in the leaderboards or team pages until this winter most likely because it’s going to take a minor overhaul to the code in order to handle the park adjustments.
Graham will be stopping by later to give a better overview of the stat.
Like pretty much every blog out there, we’ve decided to make it easy for you to share an article on FanGraphs. I’m sure a lot of you noticed this already, but figured it was worth pointing out in case you missed it. Just hover over the share button to easily send the article to wherever you like:
Unfortunately, I was not well enough prepared for the trade deadline this season and the server FanGraphs is running on couldn’t quite take the traffic load. Sometime tonight FanGraphs will be down for approximately 30 minutes for server upgrades which will hopefully allow for a much smoother running FanGraphs. Thanks for your patience!
Update #2 – We are no longer accepting applications for these positions. Thank you for your interest and if you weren’t able to apply, but would have liked to, be sure to keep on the lookout for additional openings.
FanGraphs has openings for three part time research assistants. The job entails mainly research and data entry.
Here are some qualifications we’re looking for:
– experience using Microsoft Excel
– solid research skills and a strong attention to detail
– able to contribute about 5 hours per week
Please send all applications to david@fangraphs.com.
Update: Due to the tremendous amount of interest in these positions, the cutoff for applications will be at 6pm EST today.