BtB Sabermetric Writing Awards: Best New Online Resource

by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 1:00 PM EST in Awards & Honors

The original post describing this project can be found here.

Please use the comments of this post to nominate articles for the "Best New Online Sabermetric Resource" award. Here is the description for this category:

Best sabermetric resource website, with emphasis on new sites, or improvements to existing sites made over the past year. Often these are websites that make statistics more readily available to lay users, though other definitions of resources may also be used.

This year saw the advent of a number of new sites providing sabermetric data, as well as massive improvements to preexisting sites. Which, do you think, are the best new resources on the web? Nominate them below by replying, and please use the following format for clarity:

Nominee: [in reply subject line]
Link: [link to the site, and if applicable, specific parts of the site that are new/improved]
Comment: [one sentence description of why you think this site should be considered]

You may nominate more than one site (including one that you are affiliated with), but please try to be somewhat selective. Also, please make a separate reply for each nomination.

Finally, please remember that all nominations must be "seconded" to advance to the next stage. Therefore, even if you can't think of a resource to nominate off-hand, please look through the comments and see if there are recommendations that you would endorse. If so, just reply and write "seconded!" Discussion of a nomination's merits are also very welcome.

Thanks for taking the time to submit a nomination!

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Does Minor League Splits count as new?

If it does, that’s my nomination.

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by Jack Moore on Jan 8, 2010 1:04 PM EST reply actions

Don't know exactly when it debuted, but...

I found a post on my old site from Feb 2007 referencing their fielding stats:
http://www.basement-dwellers.com/2007/02/transaction-ketchup-reds-acquire-jeff.html
I think that’s stretching “new” a bit, personally. 2008 postseason, I can deal with. Early 2007, I dunno. Thoughts?
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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 2:16 PM EST up reply actions

TexasLeaguers.com's Pitch F/X database

They are my nomination.

by Jamal G. on Jan 8, 2010 1:08 PM EST reply actions

Here's a link

http://pitchfx.texasleaguers.com/

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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 1:55 PM EST up reply actions

2nded

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by FreeZorilla on Jan 8, 2010 4:21 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks!

It’s always nice to be nominated, even though rWAR is going to stomp my DB.

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by NoNameOnCard on Jan 8, 2010 6:57 PM EST up reply actions

Would some of the new FanGraphs stats count?

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by SFiercex4 on Jan 8, 2010 1:11 PM EST reply actions

I think so

Dave Cameron’s win value series started at the very end of December 2008 and continued into 2009, so I think we should let the fWAR, at least, count for this. Especially because we haven’t had these awards before. :)

I’ll second their nomination:
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=6&season=2009&month=0

Not sure when wOBA, wRC, and wRAA showed up. I think it was earlier in 2008, but I’m not positive.
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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 1:58 PM EST up reply actions

wOBA/wRC/wRAA came in right before WAR

just a few weeks,

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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 8, 2010 2:00 PM EST up reply actions

Up to you folks whether wOBA/wRC/wRAA can be included, but I see no reason to not nominate FanGraphs/fWAR

Very deserving IMO. Even if they don’t include catcher fielding and properly address league differences. :)
-j

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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 2:08 PM EST up reply actions

talk to dka

don’t know what the word is

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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 8, 2010 4:41 PM EST up reply actions

HitTracker

http://www.hittrackeronline.com/

This might not be new this year but I’m still picking up pieces of my brain off the floor since The Incident.

by habetw4 on Jan 8, 2010 1:12 PM EST reply actions

UZR at FanGraphs

maybe it was right at the end ow 2008, but some other stuff from that period is making it

The best (okay, it’s probably equal with plus/minus) defensive metric out there — for free. Should net MGL and Appleman a Nobel Prize. Although defense had been gaining traction for a while before this happened, the open availability revolutionized internet sabermetric baseball analysis and commentary overnight, “:expanding the franchise” as it were, in a nearly unprecedented way. It led to WAR being possible at FanGraphs, and, frankly, was arguably the straw that broke that Camel’s back for forced BP into their current (awesome) makeover. Not trying to take a shot — it’s just facts — FanGraphs was making BP redundant even without the subscription, PECOTA was the only advantage, and CHONE and ZiPS are in the same league and freely available. I look forward to the new BP.

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by Matt Klaassen on Jan 8, 2010 2:04 PM EST reply actions

I'm fine with bUZR if others are, especially as this is our first year w/ the awards and we're playing a bit of catchup.

If we agree on that, I think we can lump it with the fWAR nominations, as it’s all at the same site.
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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 2:12 PM EST up reply actions

Nomination: Rally's rWAR

Link: http://baseballprojection.com/war/playerindex.htm
I don’t remember when it debuted, but at the very least the extension of the WAR rankings back pre-retrosheet happened this summer. It’s the best historical value database available. Did to historical work what FanGraphs did to modern-day work.
-j

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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 2:10 PM EST reply actions

I'll second this.

The historical WAR database is something that I reference practically everyday now, especially during the HOF voting process.

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by Satchel Price on Jan 8, 2010 2:14 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Looks like I've clicked on all but five of the "letters" at that link in my browser

F, I, N, Q & U. And it’s only a matter of time before I look up Luis Quinones. :)
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by JinAZ on Jan 8, 2010 2:19 PM EST up reply actions

thirded, fourthed and fifthed

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by erik on Jan 9, 2010 12:01 AM EST up reply actions

Sixthed,

this is one of the best databases I’ve been introduced to. Love it.

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by Streams Of Whiskey on Jan 10, 2010 6:17 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks for all the love

Baseballprojection.com debuted just before Christmas 2008. The WAR pages came in the spring and the historical stuff was added over the summer.

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by RallyMonkey5 on Jan 11, 2010 6:15 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

I will throw College Splits up there

That one was new for the draft, I believe.

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by Jack Moore on Jan 8, 2010 4:26 PM EST reply actions

Joe Lefkowitz's Pitch F/x Tool

http://video-moments.com/joe/pitch.php

Awesome.

by Pat Andriola on Jan 8, 2010 7:28 PM EST reply actions

seconded

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by erik on Jan 9, 2010 12:00 AM EST up reply actions

Is Brooks baseball new enough to count?

Widely available pitch f/x for all games and players is awesome.

Glad I came, just wish I hadn't stayed so long.

by Warden11 on Jan 9, 2010 9:30 PM EST reply actions

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by JinAZ on Jan 10, 2010 9:46 PM EST reply actions

Nomination: The Sabermetric Wiki

http://www.tangotiger.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Why: It may have not gotten off the ground in the way we thought it would, but it nevertheless is a great repository of key information about sabermetric findings and statistics.
-j

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by JinAZ on Jan 11, 2010 10:36 AM EST reply actions