From my latest post on Russ Springer.
Here's how I made that awesome picture:
1. First I grabbed all of Springer's Flyballs from last year from my pitchfx database.
2. Then I found the x and y hit coordinates for each and threw them into a scatter plot. Like all gameday data I don't imagine this is perfect, but I think it's pretty accurate and it's what we've got to work with.
3. Then using the example from the Joseph Adler's Baseball Hacks book I inverted the y axis and plotted the baseball diamond black box in the picture.
4. I then went into Google Earth and found Oakland Coliseum, overlaid my chart on the stadium, and rotated/stretched the chart until the black box "diamond" matched up with the Coliseum's.
5. Voila, and you now have Russ Springer's 2008 Flyball Chart mapped onto Oakland Coliseum.
about 1 year ago
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Holy crap, that is phenomenal.
You know that authors are disqualified from winning the graphs contest, though, right?
Beyond the Boxscore // Calling BJ Upton lazy is lazy.
Well BtBS, it's been nice
but it looks like its time for me to retire as an author, retroactively to about 10am this morning. Thanks for everything.
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The 3 HR marked were HR he allowed last season in whatever parks he did
the 4th was classified as a line drive off the bat of Shane Victorino so it’s not a part of the flyball chart.
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