[Teflon]

This is one of the really great tools available to baseball fans. Even if you don't use it for Out of the Park it's unbelievable for plumbing historical data. The Baseball Archive people offer this free of charge but showing your appreciation with a suitable Paypal donation or some words of thanks would let them know how much we value what they do.

I can't wait to pull in 2003 for a run-through. Then I plan to build Access queries until spring looking for little-known baseball truths a'la Moneyball. (I'd be interested to know if anyone else builds queries in Lahman and what kind of stuff you've found out. My latest was to determine the number of runs a team would have to score to win a certain number of games in a year given the number of runs their opponent would score - which was a tool the Oakland A's used in trying to figure out how much offense they needed to acquire. It involved using the equation from the logorithmic trendline of a scatter chart of every teams' winning percentage and runs scored as a percentage of their opponents. I think it's cool - but then I'm a baseball geek. Of course, if you're reading these message boards, you probably are too.)