New Stats

We've recently acquired a slew of new stats from our stats provider Baseball Info Solutions. While none of them are being graphed yet, I made them available in the “Season Stats” section for each player.

Here is the list of stats that have been added:

GB/FB	Ground Ball to Fly Ball Ratio.
IFFB%	Percentage of fly balls that are infield fly balls.
HR/FB	Percentage of fly balls that are home runs.
IFH%	Percentage of ground balls that are infield hits.
BUH%	Percentage of bunt hits.

IFFB	Total number of infield fly balls.
IFH	Total number of infield hits.
BU	Total number of bunts.
BUH	Total number of bunt hits.

Since these stats have just been added to our database, I haven't done much research on them. It's tough to say whether the particular ratios and percentages added are useful.

There have been two other changes:

1. Some of the existing stats are now carried out an extra decimal point.

2. Choosing a player for comparisons should work a little better now.

I'd like to remind people that it's ok to use any “Fan Graph” in your own articles, blogs etc…. If you want the image to be permanent, you must save the image and host it yourself. The graphs hosted here are periodically wiped clean because of the large amount of space they take up. Over 80,000 graphs were generated the past two months.

There will be another site upgrade sometime in the next two weeks that should include “split graphs”. These will allow you to track a player's right-handed or left-handed only stats against one another and the players combined average.