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fhomess · 02-10-2010, 06:55 PM

On the issue of advanced/sabermetric stats, most of the basic ones are easily calculated from the traditional stats, so they don't require any additional database space to store. Things like basic wOBA and BP's new SIERA can be calculated on the fly. Other stats that require park and/or league adjustments are a bit harder to do as they require calculating something else first, so they might require a bit of database space being taken up.

As far as the addition of markUsZR to provide some better defensive statistics, I do hope that the underlying data will be available in the data dump somehow.

Speaking of the data dump, I've got numerous suggestions from my work with StatsLab that would be nice to have in there. Some examples:
1. RBOE - reached base on error isn't in there
2. Game Logs aren't reproducable. Would allow for things like WPA to be calculated for the more statistically inclined, but would also allow for evaluation of key game events/external game summaries.
3. Stint - there's currently no way to tell the order a player played for different teams during a single season.
4. Transactions - there's no record of transactions/trades (kind of goes with #3, but provides more)

02-10-2010, 06:55 PM	#293
fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,693	On the issue of advanced/sabermetric stats, most of the basic ones are easily calculated from the traditional stats, so they don't require any additional database space to store. Things like basic wOBA and BP's new SIERA can be calculated on the fly. Other stats that require park and/or league adjustments are a bit harder to do as they require calculating something else first, so they might require a bit of database space being taken up. As far as the addition of markUsZR to provide some better defensive statistics, I do hope that the underlying data will be available in the data dump somehow. Speaking of the data dump, I've got numerous suggestions from my work with StatsLab that would be nice to have in there. Some examples: 1. RBOE - reached base on error isn't in there 2. Game Logs aren't reproducable. Would allow for things like WPA to be calculated for the more statistically inclined, but would also allow for evaluation of key game events/external game summaries. 3. Stint - there's currently no way to tell the order a player played for different teams during a single season. 4. Transactions - there's no record of transactions/trades (kind of goes with #3, but provides more) __________________ StatsLab- PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Baseball Cards - Full list of known templates and documentation on card development.