One Year Ago Today
Fangraphs, circa January 2008.
Over the past twelve months, David Appelman has added to his blossoming website:
- CHONE projections
- Marcel projections
- ZiPS projections
- Better and exportable leaderboards
- Pitch type information
- Pitch velocity information
- Live play logs and box scores
- Plate discipline information
- UZR
- Win value data
- A stable of awesome writers, headed by our own Matthew and Dave
- A bunch of other stuff that I'm forgetting
Fangraphs used to be a neat little place that served a handful of interesting but ultimately minor uses, like Brandon Fahey's playpen, or Canada. Now it's turned into required daily reading and one of the most informative baseball websites on the planet. Seriously, if you're not reading, you're not trying. So kudos to you, Mr. Appelman - we are forever indebted to you and your efforts. I may never delete Baseball-Reference from my bookmarks, but baseball analysis wouldn't be where it is today were it not for your extraordinary vision.
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You stole this from my post in the other thread.
You are such a shameless whore.
(Man I wish I could’ve attended the LL/USSM get-together…I think I’m still just pissed about missing it.)
Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism
by esoteric on Jan 12, 2009 3:31 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Hear hear!
Fangraphs has become the definitive non-Mariners baseball site for me. Amazing stuff they’ve done in such a short time period.
by Teej on Jan 12, 2009 3:37 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I use it as much as baseball-reference
and that’s a lot of usage.
by JI on Jan 12, 2009 3:38 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
It's as if B-Ref supplemented their site with a more appealing visual layout and a stable of interesting writers churning out cool stuff every day.
Well, I guess “as if” is pretty unnecessary in this case. It IS B-Ref with all of those things.
Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism
by esoteric on Jan 12, 2009 3:39 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
I very much like the layout for bbref's player and team pages
infinitely more than Fangraphs’
In fact it’s a testament to how much great stuff there is at Fangraphs that I use it constantly despite it being so visually unappealing.
by JI on Jan 12, 2009 3:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Huh. Guess it's just an aesthetic difference of opinion.
Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism
by esoteric on Jan 12, 2009 3:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
B-R's splits and gamelogs make it indispensable, though.
As well as a wealth of other stuff that Fangraphs doesn’t have. Two awesome sites, and both deserve high praise.
by Teej on Jan 12, 2009 3:45 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, the gamelogs are wonderful.
I just wish there was an option to add delightful anecdotal commentary to the gamelogs. The stories contained in some of those logs are just dying to be told with more than numbers.
Patriotism, Pepper, Professionalism
by esoteric on Jan 12, 2009 3:47 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Agreed.
Every time a trade has happened this offseason, I race over there to see how well my initial thoughts of the trade match up to a more unbiased view.
Adding the CHONE projections has made it one of my most visited sites this winter.
by GhettoBear04 on Jan 12, 2009 4:41 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
I think we will need to wait until all the 2009 ZIPS are released.
by Edgar for Pres on Jan 12, 2009 5:08 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
ZiPS Release
Appelman gets them when I’m done doing them, in the next 2-4 weeks.
Technically, ZiPS on Fangraphs started in 2007, not 2008, but that’s a minor quibble!
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Dan Szymborski
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by D.Szymborski on Jan 13, 2009 7:20 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Whoops, misreading on my part
Still, yeah, not a big deal.
by Jeff on Jan 13, 2009 9:32 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
FanGraphs
It has rapidly become one of my favorite sites. Very nice place to read up on analysis on other teams/players with the convenience of a lionshare of stats to boot. It’s amazing how far that site has come and, especially, how fast it got there.
by ThundaPC on Jan 12, 2009 4:54 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
What...
No CHONE Figgins projections? I’m disappointed.
by section331 on Jan 12, 2009 9:40 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Thanks!
Thanks for the kind words Jeff. I’m glad everyone has found this past year’s additions useful. And the good news is, we’re not even close to done.
by dkappelman on Jan 13, 2009 12:49 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

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