6.7.1

Deez Nutz — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 11:41:42 -0000

Fixed all data issues to support 2019 format changes. And a few from 2018 that were never fixed.
Updated Python library used to download GameDay files. Old method had become slow for some reason.
Removed Retrosheet sections.

6.6.2

Deez Nutz — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 06:05:35 -0000

There is now a -m month option.

6.6.1

Deez Nutz — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 03:55:16 -0000

There was a game in 2018 Spring training where a player had no position. This caused that game to blow up on loading. 6.6.1 simple adds a line to put the player position as U if there is no position.

BBOS 6.5

Deez Nutz — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 05:26:59 -0000

There was immediate demand for capturing the timestamp on the feed hit f/x data which has now been implemented.

BBOS 6.4

Deez Nutz — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 05:45:39 -0000

With a few updates this seems to now grab the limited hit f/x feed data for speed off bat, distance, and launch angle.116K batted balls from the 2015 data appear to have an off the bat speed value. You figure Giancarlo will be the long man in batted ball distance but who knew by 12 feet? Or that Khris Davis was second? Cheers.

BBOS 6.3

Deez Nutz — Thu, 07 May 2015 04:35:01 -0000

Statcast is slightly upon us. There is a new table in the gameday schema with the following fields: 'gameName', 'description', 'player_id', 'mph', 'distance', 'result'. The data is the same as you see in the "Feed" tab of mlb.com's GameDay app. There is a player ID and a play result and a description. The description looks like this: "George Springer flies out to right fielder Shin-Soo Choo. Batted ball speed 75 mph; distance of 233 feet." If you are following, this means there is no foolproof way to link the statcast data to the atbat it refers to as there is no atbat id provided. It is what it is. The mph and distance fields have been parsed from the description for you. Hopefully more will come later this season. As of 5/5 there were 14,751 hits to examine from 2015, if you include Spring Training. Good hunting.

bug

Deez Nutz — Thu, 09 Apr 2015 18:39:55 -0000

There was a bug in 6.2 that was fixed just now if you were not getting the new data. Making the new load compatible with old games broke it :( Sorry for the inconvenience.

bbos 6.2

Deez Nutz — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:38:03 -0000

Well, that was fast! It seems there is some new data available this year. Whether this is StatCast data or not I do not know but it is found in the pregumbo.json file. The data looks like this for each ball in play.

{"distance":"36.8223728470289","speed":"100.240697361936","direction":"20.6280619831706","play_guid":"896d8f92-38c9-4473-a3ac-b7ae1729245a","angle":"-3.01827553498121"}

The play_guid field has also been added to the pitch data and is now loaded to that table. This and the game name allow you to relate the ball in play to the pitch and atbat it occurred on.

Sorry, I do not see any fielding data as of yet :(

bbos 6.1

Deez Nutz — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 02:04:30 -0000

Thanks to some helpful users, and the lack of yet to be unveiled statcast data, we have published a BBOS 6.1. The errors with unicode text on play descriptions have been solved. Thanks to emschorsch for the code.

small update

Deez Nutz — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 23:59:31 -0000

The order of game loading has been returned to chronological forward.

And if you loaded today's spring games you noticed that some of the atbat spanish tags had non unicode latin-1 characters in them. They have been updated to have those characters stripped as is done to the spanish commentary fields on the pitch data.

The version was not updated.

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