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I've been collecting offensive data for 13 conferences in division 1 college baseball for the last year or so. I have all 13 conferences from 2007-2009 and that leaves me with around 4,700 individual seasons in my spreadsheet. You can read an article and look at what I track/adjust the stats into right here. I've sent my spreadsheet to Erik Manning in the past and I have no problems emailing it to whoever would like it.

Now, i'd like to be able to do this throughout the 2010 season. Unfortunately, not being any sort of smart with programming or anything, it becomes all manual input from team or conference websites. Given that each conference has about 70-100 players in it, that's a lot of lines and numbers to input by myself.

So my question is this: is there anyone out there that would be willing to help out? I basically would just want the player name, school, conference, AB, H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, HBP, K, GIDP, SF, SH, SB, SB ATT and all of that is found in that order on each team or conference website. It's just a matter of inputting it and I can get through, say, the Big 12 in about 30 minutes or so (maybe a little longer).

I figure that if I can round up 3-5 other people, and we each take 2 conferences a piece, this will give the only constantly updated, in-season adjusted college offensive statistics that I know of. This can easily be done by just uploading it to google docs and I'm only looking for it to be done twice a month at the most given the amount of off-days college programs have per week.

Ideally, I'd love to have a site like College Splits but free to the public. That's overly ambitious and I'm getting off topic, but I just thought I'd see if there's any interest.

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I'd be willing to help

This is a project I’ve been working on for the past few months using stats from Boyds World. I would definitely be willing to contribute this season.

by UMASS on Feb 18, 2010 4:49 PM EST reply actions  

Boyd’s World is pretty quick about posting the data you’re looking for, in addition to park factors.

by Anticon23 on Feb 18, 2010 4:52 PM EST reply actions  

I know, I use Boyd’s world but he doesn’t give all the data I want until he updates his entire hitters database — that’s not until the fall. His site is pretty clunky and has more reference points than actual leader boards, wOBA’s etc etc.

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by Mike Rogers on Feb 18, 2010 5:23 PM EST reply actions  

Anyone wanting to help can email me at mikerogers04 at gmail.

My old blog is Tigers By The Numbers.

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by Mike Rogers on Feb 18, 2010 5:23 PM EST reply actions  

So basically you just need someone to gather the raw data?

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by Warden11 on Feb 19, 2010 7:13 PM EST reply actions  

He wants a few people to help gather the raw data yes. There are a lot of teams/players to cover, much easier with 5-10 people than one.

by jfish26101 on Feb 20, 2010 4:30 PM EST up reply actions  

Yes. It’s a lot of just inputting data — to the point that without writing a script to parse the data from the team websites (like collegesplits.com does), it’s mind-numbingly tough to do in-season updates.

My old blog is Tigers By The Numbers.

Now I write at Bless You Boys.

Like music? See what I'm listening to at my Last.fm account.

by Mike Rogers on Feb 21, 2010 2:32 AM EST up reply actions  

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