Blogging's been a bit light lately as I've been working on a new feature for the Day by Day Database. What I've wanted for a while is an updated database that lets me calculate batting in various situations. I notice that Retrosheet.org posted event data for the years 2000-2004 on their site, so I thought this was a good time to give this program a shot.

As I worked on extracting the data, it occurred to me that it was possible to do a very cool splits program. Instead of just displaying splits by season, the user can input dates, looking at splits over any time frame. It was also possible to use the same selection criteria as the daily logs to drill down even further. So it's possible to look at splits for Bobby Abreu playing at home in Veterans Stadium.

Given the complicated nature of extracting splits for base runners, the database only contains batting events. The splits for pitchers are not pitching splits but opposition batting. Still, it's my belief that this is going to be a very useful research tool. I know of nothing like it on the web.

Baseball Info Solutions sold me the 2005 data and will provide updates in 2006. My thanks to Steve Moyer and Damon Lichtenwalner for their help on this project.

Find splits for batters here.

Find splits for pitchers here.

I've been testing the program, but my test have not been exhaustive. If you find something that looks wrong, or have suggestions for improvements, let me know.

Enjoy!