One Night Only: Hot Game Previews for June 20th
At least one of these words applies to the present edition of One Night Only.
This edition of One Night Only is limited in terms of written copy, on account of most of the author’s effort was expended in the pursuit of designing a cleaner, more user-friendly presentation for the daily slate of games — which design one can see by reading furtherly in the present post.
While not much different in terms of the information it contains, this new format allows the reader to (a) see all the NERD Game Scores in a single (right-most) column and (b) click on any pitchers’ name, should he (i.e. this hypothetical reader) so choose.
For readers who have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, feel free to look at the daily slate of game in this recent edition of One Night Only (the black-and-white image towards the bottom) and/or the methodology behind NERD scores here.
For readers who’re like, “This is much better/worse,” feel free make such declarations in the comments section.
For readers who’re like, “You should make this frigging table sortable,” I respond to you by saying, “Yeah, I’m looking into that right now.”
Otherwise, drink this in with your eyes and/or hearts:
| Aw. | Sc. | Away Pitcher | Sc. | Hm. | Sc. | Home Pitcher | Sc. | Time | Gm. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BAL | 3 | Jake Arrieta | 4 | PIT | 4 | Charlie Morton | 4 | 19:05 | 3 |
| COL | 7 | Juan Nicasio | 7 | CLE | 9 | Fausto Carmona | 6 | 19:05 | 6 |
| LAA | 5 | Jered Weaver | 6 | FL | 5 | Anibal Sanchez | 8 | 19:10 | 6 |
| NYA | 8 | Ivan Nova | 2 | CIN | 7 | Johnny Cueto | 6 | 19:10 | 4 |
| SD | 5 | Wade LeBlanc* | 5 | BOS | 6 | Andrew Miller* | 5 | 19:10 | 4 |
| TOR | 8 | Ricky Romero | 7 | ATL | 7 | Tim Hudson | 6 | 19:10 | 6 |
| HOU | 5 | J.A. Happ | 2 | TEX | 8 | Derek Holland | 7 | 20:05 | 4 |
| CHN | 0 | Carlos Zambrano | 3 | CHA | 1 | Gavin Floyd | 5 | 20:10 | 3 |
| TB | 5 | Jeff Niemann | 4 | MIL | 8 | Chris Narveson | 7 | 20:10 | 5 |
| DET | 3 | Brad Penny | 2 | LAN | 2 | Clayton Kershaw | 10 | 22:10 | 5 |
Pitching probables and game times from MLB.com.
* = Fewer than 20 IP, NERD of 5 (or 10 for debuts)
Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.
Until you make the table sortable, I think the games should be listed in descending order by overall Game Score.
Also, although you never said it wasn’t coming back, I wanted to say that I do enjoy the written copy aspect, and think that it should occur below the new and/or improved table, so that those that don’t want to read the copy can just see the table on top. Plus it seems more intuitive that way.
Thanks for your work
I agree and disagree. I would like to have the table up top and then the regular written stuff below. On days I have time to read all of it, the writing is very enjoyable. However, sometimes I just want to see the games.
However, I would rather have the games listed (as they are now) by ascending time. Of course, a sortable table would make literally everyone happy.
Your written copy was the best part of this feature — the NERD scores themselves, not so much.
You could do an exegesis of randomly generated names of baseball players and I’d be amused.
I hope this doesn’t mean that’s going away…
No, the written copy will absolutely remain. It just used up my quota of One Night Only composition for this specific post on redesigning the table.
Being that there is no Cistullian writing present, there is nothing for me here. Good-day.
lol @ the Cubs’ 0
More breaks might be nice, right now it looks a little crowded to me, but overall I think this is a good idea.
+1 Would upvote again. 2 vertical linebreaks dividing into 3 sections of AWAY|HOME|Gamescore would make my brain parse way betterer.
Also, shading home team to represent AL/NL would be nice.
My head hurts trying to follow the arrows
So, more arrows?
Check.
can you make the arrows blue?
Cornflower blue?
Are those arrows some mad Paint skills being shown off? Also, like the new/improved table better than the old one.
I read “ONO” for your clever wordplay and your humor, I care less about the NERD scores. However, I do enjoy the NERD scores; especially for Pitchers.
merci Mr Cistulli , tres bien la nouvelle presentation.
le joueur en lien c est formidable.
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evolutions pNERD pour cette nuit :
a . SANCHEZ ( flo ) 9 @ 8
NICASIO ( col ) 10 * @ 7
HOLLAND ( tx ) 8 @ 7
CUETO ( cin ) 5 @ 6
ZAMBRANO ( cubs ) 2 @ 3
HAPP ( hou) 0 @ 1 @ 2