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Major OnLine Baseball-Analysis ResourcesPortalsWeb "portal" pages are, in effect, meta-links: a portal page is one designed as a "doorway" to a great number of related other sites.
Stats and News(The Batter's Box Baseball Blog has a very helpful--albeit now a bit dated--mini-review of baseball-stat sites available. Large Commercial Current-Stats and News SourcesMost or all of these get their actual data from either MLB or Stats, Inc., but you may like the layout and presentation, or the news coverage, of one more than another. Also note that while we list them for having current stats, most or all also have good historical-stats facilities. Other Current-Stats and News SourcesNot from corporate giants, but that's as likely to be a plus as a minus--maybe more likely. Specialized or Historical Stat SourcesThere are some awfully nice sites here. Minor-Leagues Stat SourcesMany of the major commercial sites listed above will also have minor-league data; these are simply some supplemental listings.
Baseball-Analysis TheoryActive Sites
Sites No Longer Actively Maintained (But Still Interesting)
Real-Time OnLine ScoreboardsWith the increasing disappearance of baseball games from television--especially games not involving a team from New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago--we all need some resource or resources for real-time information on at least major-league games as they are played. There are endless sources of post-game information, but many fans would like to have such real-time information via the internet. You can, for a modest annual fee, sign up with MLB for their "GameDay Audio" package, assuming that you have an internet connection fast enough and good enough (not the same thing) to support "streaming audio"; if you don't use Windoze as your operating system, you may have some setup problems, but ultimately it should all be able to be made to work. (God help you if you want their TV package.) But if you don't have fast hardware or the right software, or feel you should pay for what anyone with a radio in the area of the ballpark can get for free, you need something else for real-time coverage. Unfortunately, the otherwise-wonderful Skilton site does not seem yet to have a distinct category for "real-time" scoreboards, so we have poked into the topic. The term "real time" is slippery; strictly, it should mean an account or updating that occurs with virtually no delay from the fact, such as a television picture. In practice, many net scoreboards are "real time" only in the sense that they are updated every few minutes, which--of course--is not at all the same thing. Moreover, there is the question of just what information is the client (that's you or us) getting? Just the actual score, a line (the traditional "runs, hits, errors, left on base" stuff), a batter-by-batter progress report, or--the ideal--a pitch by pitch description? We have omitted "real-time" sources known to not update for every pitch, partly for brevity but also because who wants that when you can get pitch-by-pitch updates? So we include this list (which we hope, but certainly do not know, to be complete) of such sites. Of course, if you have either deeper evaluations of these links or know of any other such links, please do e-mail us about it or them! Thanks. Note that owing to the widespread use of Java different users' computers will respond rather differently to most of these sources (mostly seen as speed or sloth in presentation), which of course tints one's view of a given site. Try them out and pick your favorite.
In addition, FanGraphs has interesting in-game analytic statistics and graphs; it's worth a look. There is apparently also a set of live minor-league scoreboards available at the official Minor-League Baseball site. Baseball Sites Linking to This SiteTwo factors are involved here: first, it seems reasonable to believe that a site that recognizes this one has an above-average likelihood of being of interest to visitors to this site; and second, it is an established internet courtesy to link to sites that link to you. The complications are, one, that there are (according to Google Webmaster Tools) over 2,100 links to this site (Yahoo says over 17,300, but they're probably counting internal links from our baseball bookshop); and two, that it is essentially impossible to identify them all, or even most of them (Google will give one only a "sample", because they need to keep their techniques proprietary and avoid reverse-engineering by webmasters). A third point is that we simply haven't had the time to check out even the limited samples Google (and other search engines) makes available. Till we do, here's a link that will give you one of those (probably random) Google sample sets of links to this site. |
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For You Rookies:
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Some Baseball Analysis
Theory: a semi-technical backgrounding on modern baseball analysis |
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Baseball Stat Definitions: the standard and the unique statistics we present |
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The "Quality of Pitching" Measures: why they are the best way to evaluate pitching |
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The SillyBall: why baseball before and after 1993 is really two different games |
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Fielding and Defense in Baseball how important defense is or isn't in baseball, and how to correctly evaluate it |
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Baseball Data Normalization: why raw stats need "correction", and how and why we can and cannot apply it |
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"Steroids" and Other "Performance-Enhancing
Drugs": why just about everything you think you know about them is wrong (now a full-fledged site of its own) |
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The Team-Performance Table there is a lot in that Table, and this explains what it all is |
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The HBH Baseball-Analysis Formula Tested what we get when we apply it to half a century of team stats |
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The Pitfalls of Park Factors an explicit, detailed demonstration of how and why they are so dubious |
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About High Boskage House who we are and why we might know what we're talking about |
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Links About Eric Walker links to baseball-related pages concerning the webmaster here |
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