January 21, 2007
Winning and Losing
There's a addition to the Day by Day Database. You can now see team records with different players in a game. For example, here's the won-lost records for each Mets player during the 2006 season. I'm not sure how useful this will be, but it's not something that's easy to find other places, so I'm sure you'll make use of the information.
Update: Just to be clear, if a player appears in a game at any time, the player gets credited with the result for the team that day.
Posted by David Pinto at
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I love it! This is pretty fascinating, and could indicate something about how a player affects teams as they move from team to team. Much like win shares....over the course of time.
How can I change the team? I'd like to check the '01 Mariners, '98 Yanks, '75 Big Red Machine, and a few other teams. I can't even look at the URL and figure out what to change to accomplish this.
There's a choose new team link now. Sorry I forgot to put that in.
i love it- but 3 things would make this a lot easier to use. a drop-down box to select the team, and a way to select "full season" by year (or maybe drop down box for year and default to full season dates) so you don't have to guess and/or look up the days the season started and ended. Finally, there needs to be some filter to account for people who changed teams within the same league during the year- example, Jeff Weaver as a cardinal is correct, but Jorge Sosa's shows both his Atlanta and STL record even when sorting by STL.
BTW according to this, so taguchi was the position player whose game presence was second-most likely to indicate a win on the cardinals team last year, only bested by larry bigbie. (Whom I still can't believe got into 17 games...)
oop, just realized I was wrong about sosa- the database is correct as it is. Ignore that part of the comment above ;)
Sleepy,
You don't need the actual start or end date. Just use an extreme. I always put in 3/1/xxxx for the start of the year, and 10/20/xxxx for the end of the year.
This is pretty cool. The Red Sox were 58-28 in games John Olereud played in 2005, and 75-59 in games Kevin Millar played. Never could figure out why Tito did not play Olereud every game after he joined them, especially when Edgar Renteria made only 3 of his 30 errors when Olereud played. Helps support my intuition thta Tito was wrong.
The Red Sox with Varitek from 2001-2006 were 398-300 (.570), and Mirabelli 198-143 (.581). Another myth exploded that the Red Sox can not win w/o Tek calling the game.
It would be nice if we could get the information based on games started as well as games played in, since Mirabelli may have been used as late inning replacements in some blow outs, or as a PH and not as much of a factor in the win or loss.
