A few weeks ago we added a custom splits tool to our player pages. This weekend, we added the ability to select a specific date range. To do this, we added the “Time Frame” control bar, which now contains all date-related splits and controls.
The “Filter” menu is the old “Time Frame” splits menu. This gives you the option to view plate appearances occurring in a month or season half, and the day or night time-of-day split. These are different from a custom date range. Choosing the “May” split in the filter menu will display plate appearances from every May. This would be used for getting career stats in May.
To look at splits from a specific date, there’s a drop-down calendar with which you can select the start date and end date. This will limit the splits to those specific days. This can be useful if you want to look at splits after a player returns from an injury, a trade or an adjustment. We’ve also included preset ranges like the last 30 days or the past calendar year.
The calendar allows you to select both the beginning and end date on the same calendar and visualize the range.
The Splits Reset button will reset just the splits, and the Reset button either on the “Time Frame” bar or in the calendar will reset just the date range.
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Finally, we added two more positional splits (“as PH” and “as PR”) and a change log, so updates will be documented within the splits tool.
I’m ready to give my left arm for the leaderboard pages to include the custom splits tool!
What a bonanza for cherry pickers!
Indeed…this is a cherry pickers dream!
*NOTE* – I don’t see the Splits Tool option on older player pages. I just checked a couple from the 1980-1990 timeframe with no luck, but players that were 1990-2010 had it. Random Mets sample Gooden, Hernandez do not, but Edgardo Alphonzo does.
I see your “cherry pickers” complaint, and will raise you one enabling the “misuse of ‘calendar year'” complaint. I realize it is probably finance/accounting/business-centric language, but calendar years are Jan 1 – Dec 31. Anything else is a fiscal year, last 12 months, or last 365 days.
Regardless of those, this does allow for “peak” comparisons for pitchers across different eras when there is massive difference in IP and starts.
We don’t have splits data prior to 2002, so that’s why that occurs with the older players.
This is fantastic, thanks! Fangraphs just keeps getting better. Any chance fly ball distance and exit velocity could be added to the player pages?
Leverage leverage leverage leverage leverage leverage. Splits with leverage data and things like plate discipline could revolutionize the way we think about clutch hitting.