The SOM basic fielding chart seems to produce a lot of errors, at least compared to TPB. Reality check: what’s the average number of errors per game in MLB? A quick Retrosheet hack gives the average over the years. It’s not a perfect count—multiple errors during one play are all counted as one.
Is the drop due to a change in fielding prowess or a change in official scoring? I reckon it’s the latter.
A blog by expat in Sweden who I met many years ago.
Tried a 1982 TBP game using Chadwick only. Procedure: copy *.ROS files from nl & al Retrosheet folders; copy one TEAM1982 file (both contain both leagues); zip those; open with Chadwick. Looks like event files are created automatically. No need to use a *.chw file.
To edit a .EV* file, open from Compressed Folder, edit, save outside Compressed Folder, copy to Compressed Folder.
Tough without a scoresheet: keeping track of stamina, keeping track of unearned run(ners), W/L/S pitchers. In the last case, editing may be necessary in complex situations.
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Century of baseball board games to open April 12
Exhibit features collection of 100 years of leisure entertainment, 1860s-1960s
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — For anyone who’s ever said, “baseball is just a game,” a collection of baseball board games, soon to be featured in a temporary exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y., will show that the passion for the national pastime has deep origins and strong roots as a leisure-time activity in American culture, featuring more than 50 games over a 100-year period from 1860-1960.
Ran across a lineup analysis tool on the Baseball Musings site.
Let’s try nine Perfectos… Continue reading Lineup Analysis
WFMU’s blog has a post about a cheesy disco record that sings the praises of Pete Rose.
The first SOM meeting between Saaf & Allen saw the 1962 Yankees go against the 1968 Cardinals. The Yanks scattered six runs, and Whitey Ford gave up no earned runs, as the Yanks extended their lead in the grudge match to 4 games to 2. More SOM match-ups to come!
1962 Yanks 201 100 101 6 11 1 1968 Cards 000 200 000 2 6 1 W: Ford L: Carlton
Downloaded Chadwick 0.4.0 for Windoze & also the 0.5.0 utilities. Everything runs nice.
Now, how to organize teams from different years. Everything’s based off the season year. I picked 2008. You need a TEAM2008 file. For Group A this looks like:
BAL71,A,Baltimore,1971 Orioles NYN73,N,New York,1973 Mets OAK72,A,Oakland,1972 Athletics ATL69,N,Atlanta,1969 Braves CIN64,N,Cincinnati,1964 Reds MIN69,A,Minnesota,1969 Twins
I added the last two digits of the actual year to the team ID and put the full year in the nickname field. I copied in the Retrosheet roster files, but renamed them to have the team IDs and 2008:
ATL692008.ROS BAL712008.ROS CIN642008.ROS MIN692008.ROS NYN732008.ROS OAK722008.ROS
Zipped up the team & roster files into 2008.zip and opened that (open, not import) from Chadwick. Works!
The Chicago Gangstas swept the Perfectos to send T-Ville back to .500. Howard (.087) & Rollins (.156) went hitless. Ouch!
Chicago 031 000 140 9 11 1 Titusville 003 000 001 4 7 1 Chicago 200 000 100 3 9 0 Titusville 000 000 020 2 8 0
I got Strat-O-Matic with the set of 36 “past seasons” cards—reprints of the top teams and some expansion clubs from 1962-1976. I’ve set up a solo tournament with the 36 teams. Don’t know if I’ll get through it all, but it’s fun so far.
Both pitching squads were sharp. Simmons homered in the 3rd to provide the edge for the Cards.
Yankees 000 100 000 1 4 1 Cardinals 011 000 000 2 5 1 W: McGlothen, L: Medich
Series stands at 3-2 New York.
XBL 2008 kicks off for Houston & St. Cloud. Ted Simmons (1977) huge for the Hornets: a homer and a triple for five RBIs.
Houston 000 020 301 6 11 0 St. Cloud 002 100 010 4 5 0 W: Rogers, L: Lincecum
Played a 1973 game and put the hit & run on at every opportunity. Of 18 opportunities, the H&R affected six plays: four yielded base advancement (three on singles, one on an RG; none scored), one was neutral (K to foul out), and one turned a game-tying home run into a foul out! Final: Braves 3, Cards 1. Atlanta scored on three solo shots; two by Aaron & one by Dusty Baker.
Following up on the previous post about home-field advantage, I got the MLB batting splits for the last five years from BR.com, which are summarized in the table below. (Here are the 2007 splits.)
The biggest effect is that the home team strikes out less. The next largest is more walks for the home team. To capture these effects, we need at least 12 rolls, which is an almost perfect fit into the 16 Park Effects rolls, something suggested by the Commish. A possible Park Effects replacement chart appears below. Since the Park Effects range is identical for every batter, we can eliminate the second roll and simply read the result from the original roll that landed us on Park Effects.
I worked in a couple of things that don’t otherwise tend to happen in the ABL: infield pop outs (pointed out by cnc14) and extra advancement on hits.
One could argue that the home team should have a few SF rolls to account for the extra sac-fly production.
This chart would produce a little more offense. A quick calculation shows that a Park Effects roll on this new chart would yield an average of 0.6 bases per roll, whereas the TBP chart yields only about 0.3 bases per Park Effects roll.
The TPB/ABL hit & run rules can be confusing, because the various effects are scattered all over the charts & instructions. This is an attempt to gather all the ABL H&R effects into a single “cheat sheet.” (Updated 2008-05-24.)
Vegas was trying for the jumps in game one—ended up with one SB & one CS. 19 singles in the game, no homers. Brought in Timlin, he walked the first batter, pulled Timlin. (That H symbol!)
TV 101 000 020 4 12 0 LV 000 200 000 2 12 0
Game two was back and forth early. Four homers, three HBP. Blalock made errors on consecutive plays, one a two-base error. Two unearned runs resulted.
TV 012 120 020 8 14 3 LV 203 000 000 5 11 0
Only two symbols: one B apiece for Lilly & Shields.
Tits to 4-2.
Continue reading Series 3: Las Vegas