New Member Feature: Customizable Player Page Dashboards

Over the past several months, we have been working on adding customization features to our player pages for FanGraphs Members, focusing on information that’s pertinent for current major leaguers. If you are a Member and signed in, you can now configure and save three to six different custom dashboard cards for batters and pitchers.

You’ll find a gray bar at the top of the player pages underneath the player name header. If you click on the Player Dashboard link on the right that says “Open Settings,” it will open the dashboard controls:

There are two parts to the controls. First, you can set the number of cards displayed. Currently, you can choose between hiding all of the cards, displaying three cards, or displaying six cards (two rows of three cards). To the right of those display options, you have the ability to toggle between viewing your current settings or viewing all of the available cards for a player and his position (batting stats vs. pitching stats):

If you have “Card Settings” selected, you can choose between the different cards for each slot. The Card Settings will save a separate layout for batters and pitchers. In the drop-downs for each card slot, you can select any of the available cards for any slot you want. Clicking “Default” will reset the slot to its initial value. The fourth, fifth and sixth slots will be blank, since we don’t have defaults set for them:

Below are descriptions for the dashboard cards we currently have available.

Pitchers and batters:

Quick Look (Default)
Our default quick stats for players. This card includes the current season, projections, and career values for major league players. It also has a tab for prospect grades.

RosterResource Summary (Default)
Our default draft, contract, and roster information. This card has a summary of the basic information available on RosterResource.

News (Default)
Our default news information for the player. This card includes Rotowire news, as well as links to the pieces from our editorial staff that the player has been tagged in.

Spark Graphs (Three and Six Graphs) NEW!
We now have spark graphs that show rolling stats over a player’s last 15 games for position players and five games for pitchers. We created two different grid sizes: three graphs and six graphs. The three-graphs option offers more detail, like a labeled y-axis, but the six-graph option has more stats available. We hope to have more options available in the future:

Player Rater (12 and 15 teams) NEW!
Earlier this year, we introduced our fantasy-centric Player Rater, which feeds a useful player card for fantasy players:

RosterResource Transaction Tracker NEW!
This card pulls data from our RosterResource Transaction Tracker. It features trades, contract signings, and roster moves related to the player:

Pitchers Only

Pitch Modeling (Stuff+ and PitchingBot) NEW!
We created a horizontal bar graph card to display pitch modeling data, with pitches listed in descending order from the pitcher’s most-used pitch to his least-used pitch. We’ve only included those pitches with >5% usage rate. You can view the three model types — Stuff+, Location+, and Pitching+ — for Stuff+, and Stuff, Command, and Overall for PitchingBot:

Batters Only

RosterResource Lineup Tracker NEW!
Using RosterResource’s lineup information, this card includes a lineup position split by starting pitcher handedness, as well as a summary of how the player entered the game (as a starter, pinch-hitter, defensive replacement, etc.). We only display information for a player’s current team, so if he switched teams, his lineup tracker will be mostly blank and his season summary count will reset.

For the sake of context, we include the following:

• Total team games: How many games the team has played.
• Available team games: Estimated games where the player was the available for his current team. This excludes free agency, time spent playing for other teams, and time spent in the minors or on the IL, etc. This indicates if the player was on the active roster and could play in the game.

A recently acquired player would have a high number of total team games, but would only be considered available for the few games he spent with his current team. You’d see similar numbers for a player who spent most of the season on the IL or in Triple-A.

The lineup calendar will update in real time when lineup information becomes available. Aggregate data is pulled from our game log data and is updated nightly:

These custom dashboard cards are in beta mode, as we are still developing this feature; the cards could change quickly or have features removed. Please let us know if you have any feedback or questions, either by leaving a comment below or emailing support@fangraphs.com. We are also open to feature requests, specifically ideas for additional cards that you would find useful. Thank you to David Appelman and Keaton Arneson. They both worked really hard to develop the initial concept and help create this tool. And thank you for being a FanGraphs Member. Your support allows us to develop tools like this!