Media in my life
Web 2.0 has greatly affected the media that I view on a daily basis. One of my favorite sites is fangraphs.com. Fangraphs is my home page. It is a stats community. Fangraphs contains a blog which functions as a normal baseball publication. Using advanced stats to discuss players in real life context. The site also has an in-depth stat section with a corresponding Glossary. Besides the ground breaking stats they create the site is advanced in its use of web 2.0. The stats section is interactive. You can compare up to three players at one time. The site will then generate graphs comparing the players. Below is a graph with the K/9 (strikeouts per 9 innings pitched) for Josh Becket, Aj Burnett, and C C Sabathia.
Besides graphics fangraphs also has a feature on the site were you can sign up and have an account with them. The site allows you to comment on fangraph articles, it allows you to post on their forum, it also allows you to add plays to a roster and track their production or compare them to their peers. For my fangraphs "team" I put together the best players from Scott Boras's client list. Scott Boras is a super agent that only handles baseball players. Im a huge fan of his work. Below are all the hitters for my team sorted by Highest OBP to lowest.
One feature on the stats page that I really find useful is the export to excel/csv button. This allows you to take what every chart you have put together and export the information for use in other programs. This allows you to do research on fangraphs and allows you to easily duplicate the work you have done.
Besides stats fangraphs also have a section on projections. Every offseason their are a bunch of different projections published all usually created based on different math formulas. While fangraphs post the four major projection systems they also have created a new system this offseason. It is called fan projections. It is odd for a stats community to advocate a system of evaluation that is based on the naked eye. It is even odder that they would use fans eyes. But it is an interesting concept non the less. I think they will take the fans projections and compare it the real results. Either way it is very indepth it allows you to view the players past four seasons and pick out a range where you think his numbers will fall. Here is an example of a ballot.
Fangraphs is such a large part of my life. Id be lost with out it.
Besides graphics fangraphs also has a feature on the site were you can sign up and have an account with them. The site allows you to comment on fangraph articles, it allows you to post on their forum, it also allows you to add plays to a roster and track their production or compare them to their peers. For my fangraphs "team" I put together the best players from Scott Boras's client list. Scott Boras is a super agent that only handles baseball players. Im a huge fan of his work. Below are all the hitters for my team sorted by Highest OBP to lowest.
One feature on the stats page that I really find useful is the export to excel/csv button. This allows you to take what every chart you have put together and export the information for use in other programs. This allows you to do research on fangraphs and allows you to easily duplicate the work you have done.
Besides stats fangraphs also have a section on projections. Every offseason their are a bunch of different projections published all usually created based on different math formulas. While fangraphs post the four major projection systems they also have created a new system this offseason. It is called fan projections. It is odd for a stats community to advocate a system of evaluation that is based on the naked eye. It is even odder that they would use fans eyes. But it is an interesting concept non the less. I think they will take the fans projections and compare it the real results. Either way it is very indepth it allows you to view the players past four seasons and pick out a range where you think his numbers will fall. Here is an example of a ballot.
Fangraphs is such a large part of my life. Id be lost with out it.
posted by David Azoulay at
12:43 PM
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