New Comparison Graphs!
The comparison graphs section has received an overhaul and now contains much of the functionality that our WAR Graphs tool contains, but for many of the other stats on the site, including standard counting stats.
You can easily embed them in your blogs in either static versions (where the data doesn’t change) or in updating versions where the data is always kept up to date.
Here’s a graph of cumulative home runs by age:
Source: FanGraphs — Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez
And these work for pitchers too:
Source: FanGraphs — Clayton Kershaw, Felix Hernandez, Tim Lincecum
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
Awesome.
I’ll second that and add a “legendary!”
Epic
One of the best things about this site is the frequent updates like this. Love it all.
OT but has the way you calculate pitcher BABIPs changed?
I found an old post where you said it is (H-HR)/(IP*2.82+H-SO-HR)
Plugging in for Kershaw, I get a BABIP of .279.
Which I forgot to mention is off from his listed BABIP of .269.
This was updated about a year ago to:
(H – HR) / (TBF – BB – HBP – HR – SO).
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/some-stats-updates/
thank you thank you!
Dave,
I’m curious, do you custom build the features you roll out or is this something that you work with a third party to develop?
I build everything that gets rolled out on the website. I definitely utilize a lot of open source code and third party components, but we don’t contract on any of our web development.
Cool. This is all really great stuff, keep up the good work.
Dave, are we limited to the stats that are shown to us when we open the Compare tab? I would love to look at HR/FB vs age, but do not see this option. Oh, and thanks for this great tool. I’ve already spent some time looking at K/9 for a bunch of different pitchers and it’s a lot of fun.
For now, yes. But maybe not forever.
The main issue becomes a lot of the newer stats are limited to 2002 (or 2007) onward, where all the stats you can select currently work for more or less all seasons.
Awesome. WordPress.com doesn’t support these though, because they are iframes. Is there a way to fix this at all?
I think you are stuck using the image export. WordPress.com has pretty tight security when it comes to third party widgets and I can’t think of anyway to make these WordPress.com friendly without using either javascript, iframes, or flash (all of which WordPress.com does not support apparently).
Alright, it’s no big deal. I was just wondering.
Is there a reason why OPS isn’t an option in the comparison graphs?
Looks great though! Thanks!
What’s average in the pitcher’s graph? I thought it was the average of the selected pitchers, but that clearly is incorrect. Is it league average? If so, needs clarification.
and, umm… Justin Verlander seems to be stuck in the pitching comparison. I clicked your link, took out some pitchers, put new ones in, but Verlander is always there.
What player page are you on to view comparisons from?
Average is the MLB average for that season or for players of a particular age going back to 1974. The link I supplied is on Verlander’s player page, it’s a little different than WAR Graphs as in you’ll always be comparing it to the original player you’re looking at (which in that case was Verlander).
This makes bacon-wrapped shrimp look like salad.
This is awesome but do you think that wRC+, ERA-, and FIP- could be added? It would be a great tool to compare ages across eras. Thanks.