Comments on: Winegrowing and Baseball – Rotobase http://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/ A blog about starting and building a family winery in the Russian River Valley. Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:58:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rotobase – A Work In Progress | Rotobloghttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251770 Rotobase – A Work In Progress | Rotoblog Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:00:31 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251770 [...] here’s the thread at BaseballHQ (behind pay wall) where this all began, and here’s a post over at my winery blog that has a video demo of the first version of [...] [...] here’s the thread at BaseballHQ (behind pay wall) where this all began, and here’s a post over at my winery blog that has a video demo of the first version of [...]

]]> By: The Innovative Russian River Pinotblogger | DrHo.rohttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251765 The Innovative Russian River Pinotblogger | DrHo.ro Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:58:58 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251765 [...] Designed an application for baseball fantasy sports [...] [...] Designed an application for baseball fantasy sports [...]

]]> By: Josh Hermsmeyerhttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251757 Josh Hermsmeyer Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:21:31 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251757 Steve,Check this out!"I have found a willing partner in MLBAM to provide all their IDs. I have taken the first step of cobbling ID maps of various people and sources, and have created the following:http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/imag...ORT_ID_MAP.zipMore details are here: http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/inde..._data_project/For all of you who have an ID mapping file, PLEASE, download the above, link it to yours and: 1. fix your files if you find errors 2. tell me about any errors I have 3. after you fix your errors, submit your ID mapping file to me; I can certify it as accurate, or it might help me in finding more errorsI have so far cobbled data from several sources. My hope is that after 2 or 3 iterations of this that I will come up with the definitive ID mapping file.If someone out there works for STATS, then be a good guy and help me out. The BIS data looks like it's complete, as is the Retro and BDB. There is still some problems with the MLBAM data (a few dozen corrections required).Once this is done, we can then link to the biographical information (name, handedness, birth, death, school), and MLBAM as I said is a willing partner here. MLBAM includes not only the 17,000 or so MLB player ID, but another 65,000 or so minors and others player IDs.Hopefully, at some point in the near future, we can make it so that we have overnight updates any time corrections are made.Help me, help you.Thanks, Tom"Tangotiger to the rescue!As to releasing the code, if I'm ultimately unable to figure out a way to make the tool public I'll definitely post it. Steve,

Check this out!

“I have found a willing partner in MLBAM to provide all their IDs. I have
taken the first step of cobbling ID maps of various people and sources,
and have created the following:

http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/imag…ORT_ID_MAP.zip

More details are here:
http://www.insidethebook.com/ee/inde…_data_project/

For all of you who have an ID mapping file, PLEASE, download the above,
link it to yours and:
1. fix your files if you find errors
2. tell me about any errors I have
3. after you fix your errors, submit your ID mapping file to me; I can
certify it as accurate, or it might help me in finding more errors

I have so far cobbled data from several sources. My hope is that after 2
or 3 iterations of this that I will come up with the definitive ID mapping
file.

If someone out there works for STATS, then be a good guy and help me out.
The BIS data looks like it’s complete, as is the Retro and BDB. There is
still some problems with the MLBAM data (a few dozen corrections
required).

Once this is done, we can then link to the biographical information (name,
handedness, birth, death, school), and MLBAM as I said is a willing
partner here. MLBAM includes not only the 17,000 or so MLB player ID, but
another 65,000 or so minors and others player IDs.

Hopefully, at some point in the near future, we can make it so that we
have overnight updates any time corrections are made.

Help me, help you.

Thanks, Tom”

Tangotiger to the rescue!

As to releasing the code, if I’m ultimately unable to figure out a way to make the tool public I’ll definitely post it.

]]> By: Steve Paulohttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251756 Steve Paulo Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:49:53 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251756 Oh, and would you consider releasing the PHP source? Obviously it's not a working system w/o the data, but I would love to see the code! Oh, and would you consider releasing the PHP source? Obviously it’s not a working system w/o the data, but I would love to see the code!

]]> By: Steve Paulohttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251755 Steve Paulo Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:45:28 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251755 What part took the longest? I've tried to take some time to put something like this together for myself in the past, and the place I always trip over is "lining up" the database (BDB or Retrosheet) with the projections systems, and the projections with each other, with the Rotowire links, the FanGraphs URLs, etc...Basically... how did you deal with getting all the different player IDs to match yours? (or really, how did you deal with converting yours to the myriad others) What part took the longest? I’ve tried to take some time to put something like this together for myself in the past, and the place I always trip over is “lining up” the database (BDB or Retrosheet) with the projections systems, and the projections with each other, with the Rotowire links, the FanGraphs URLs, etc…

Basically… how did you deal with getting all the different player IDs to match yours? (or really, how did you deal with converting yours to the myriad others)

]]> By: Craig Gummerhttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251754 Craig Gummer Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:14:19 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251754 Wow, this takes "Who's on first, What's on second" to a whole new level... very cool Josh. My favorite fantasy league auction quote ever was a buddy who replied "Hmm, I would have to write him down to cross him off." This would spare a lot of no-hit weak-throw guys from ever being written down. Play Ball and skÃ¥l. CG Oops, should have added great post! Can't wait for your next post! Wow, this takes “Who’s on first, What’s on second” to a whole new level… very cool Josh. My favorite fantasy league auction quote ever was a buddy who replied “Hmm, I would have to write him down to cross him off.” This would spare a lot of no-hit weak-throw guys from ever being written down. Play Ball and skÃ¥l. CG
Oops, should have added great post! Can’t wait for your next post!

]]> By: Craig Gummerhttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251751 Craig Gummer Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:25:57 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251751 Wow, this takes "Who's on first, What's on second" to a whole new level... very cool Josh. My favorite fantasy league auction quote ever was a buddy who replied "Hmm, I would have to write him down to cross him off." This would spare a lot of no-hit weak-throw guys from ever being written down. Play Ball and skÃ¥l. CG Wow, this takes “Who’s on first, What’s on second” to a whole new level… very cool Josh. My favorite fantasy league auction quote ever was a buddy who replied “Hmm, I would have to write him down to cross him off.” This would spare a lot of no-hit weak-throw guys from ever being written down. Play Ball and skÃ¥l. CG

]]> By: Josh Hermsmeyerhttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251749 Josh Hermsmeyer Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:35:32 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251749 @ Bradley and Jay,There are some IP and ethical issues that would need to be worked out before I released the tool. It would be free, but there is some data in it that I couldn't remove without crippling it, but would need a contractual agreement to use. We'll see...@ Greg I'm using a Retrosheet database. I also have a PitchF/X database as well and was looking at rapache as a way to auto generate r graphs. Need to learn a lot more about r tho. Would love some help when the time comes!Thx for the kind words guys. @ Bradley and Jay,

There are some IP and ethical issues that would need to be worked out before I released the tool. It would be free, but there is some data in it that I couldn’t remove without crippling it, but would need a contractual agreement to use. We’ll see…

@ Greg I’m using a Retrosheet database. I also have a PitchF/X database as well and was looking at rapache as a way to auto generate r graphs. Need to learn a lot more about r tho. Would love some help when the time comes!

Thx for the kind words guys.

]]> By: Greghttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251747 Greg Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:26:00 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251747 Nicely done!What stat library do you have working in there? It would be cool to get R running inside of the program to do some crazy modeling of the data.Again, nice!Greg Nicely done!

What stat library do you have working in there? It would be cool to get R running inside of the program to do some crazy modeling of the data.

Again, nice!

Greg

]]> By: Jay Ducotehttp://pinotblogger.com/2010/02/04/winegrowing-and-baseball/comment-page-1/#comment-251746 Jay Ducote Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:22:39 +0000 http://pinotblogger.com/?p=1493#comment-251746 Rotobase looks amazing. As food and drink blogger and rabid fantasy baseball enthusiast, it is great to see some other statistical junkies out there. It looks like you did an amazing job with it. Now the question is, how do I get my hands on it?? Rotobase looks amazing. As food and drink blogger and rabid fantasy baseball enthusiast, it is great to see some other statistical junkies out there. It looks like you did an amazing job with it. Now the question is, how do I get my hands on it??

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