things that are only connected in my brain

Baseball Stats – dollars-per-win

November 20th, 2008 - LoneStranger

A recent post on the Beyond the Boxscore blog pointed me to another blog entry on Statspeak called Building a sabermatrician’s workbench.  And as the web will do, I was in turn pointed to Baseball-Databank.org.

I’m not new to MySQL databases or SQL queries, but the existence of a free baseball database was news to me, so I downloaded and imported the beast.  It’s quite an interesting blob of data and you can use it to analyize and discover tidbits about your favorite teams and players.  Read the rest of this entry »