Leaderboards: Sorting & Exporting Update
All the leaderboards now preserve sorting in the link, meaning you can sort by whatever you want and share with someone exactly what you were looking at. This is made even easier by the addition of the usual smorgasbord of “share” buttons to the leaderboard pages.
For instance, here are the qualified BsR (baserunning) leaders last season.
Also, sorting now sorts in descending order first. Fans of looking at the league-worst first will just need to click again. Someday we will just have the stats sort from best-to-worst, first, regardless of whether it should be ascending or descending. But in the meantime, having stats sort descending first should save an extra click most of the time.
On the exporting front, playerids are now listed by default at the end of the dataset when exported. Gone are the days of parsing out playerids and player names. Thanks to all those who found and shared workarounds while exporting wasn’t so pretty.
Hat Tip: @GiantsNirvana, @CajoleJuiceEsq, xiefrank
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
I can just imagine the number of people that will celebrate that columns sort biggest-smallest now.
Co-sign, so many wasted clicks
This made my day. Good or bad thing? Immaterial; this just made my fantasy research much easier.
Great news! I’ve been whining about the descending thing for a while now. Player IDs is also huge.
re: descending first.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was interested in seeing the league’s worst pitchers at the top of the leaderboard.
Is there a way to pull in a players position on the leaderboards without having to individually sort by clicking on the specific positional link?
So if you were to export all, you would have the position as a column, instead of having to individually export each position and add the position column manually (which is what I do now, though if there is an easier way could someone post it?)
When I exported and put the data into google docs I didn’t see the ID numbers. It’s not a big deal to me though.
david, I have one suggestion, please also include the positions in the HTMLs in the sorting too, as I could do this with the export old button, and it made it so much easier to remove the pitchers or do above positional average.
Ok, I just checked and the IDs are in fact there but with this excess stuff.
Babe Ruth
How do I get rid of that?
Crap, it showed the link. It shows a href and everything. How do I get just the ID and name of the player?
Now it’s working.