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Buried Treasure at Baseball Reference.Com

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It’s difficult being a technically challenged person with all the information that’s available to us today on the Internet, but I try – and often times I even succeed, with help of data websites that are able to anticipate the needs of researchers like me and make it easy to access. The key here is – you have to go hands and eyes on what the website is trying to make easy for you. Sometimes, they even express it in written instructions that hardly anyone could possibly misunderstand – unless a person simply refused to read the website guide material.

Baseball Reference.Com is my favorite example of a website that goes into extra innings to make their baseball history data available and usable, but you have to read the instructions to fine tune data into comparable data files. For example, let’s say you want to compare how Craig Biggio performed in his first ten years as a hitter versus how he performed in his second ten years of his twenty total year MLB career.

First, click this link to the website:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/

Second, type in his name, Craig Biggio, at the active search window and press enter.

Third, click in the last column at the end of the 1997 row in the white area. Then do the same in the 1998 row. That will produce the first summery you see below on Craig’s first ten years.

Fourth, repeat that action for the two rows that bookend the second half of Biggio’s career (1998-2007) and you will have the same data that is visible below in the second data summary.

Have some comparative fun. We are only limited now by our imaginations and our curiosities as to how we use this one tool alone.

Have a nice Day!

Craig Biggio

Craig Biggio

Data Bank One: Craig Biggio Batting Stats, 1988-1997

Year Tm G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1988-1997 HOU 1379 5949 5104 874 1470 282 36 116 545 268 82 634 753 .288 .377 .426 .803 123 2172 57 119 51 40 38
Average 138 595 510 87 147 28 4 12 54 27 8 63 75 217 6 12 5 4 4
per 162 games 162 697 598 103 172 33 5 14 64 32 10 75 89 255 7 14 6 5 5

 Data Bank Two: Craig Biggio Batting Stats, 1998-2007

Year Tm G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1998-2007 HOU 1471 6555 5772 970 1590 386 19 175 630 146 42 526 1000 .275 .351 .440 .791 102 2539 93 166 50 41 30
Average 147 656 577 97 159 39 2 18 63 15 4 53 100 254 9 17 5 4 3
per 162 games 162 722 635 107 175 43 3 20 70 17 5 58 110 280 11 19 6 5 4

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