Fangraphs, circa January 2008.
Over the past twelve months, David Appelman has added to his blossoming website:
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.)
esoteric - January 12, 2009
Hear hear!
Fangraphs has become the definitive non-Mariners baseball site for me. Amazing stuff they’ve done in such a short time period.
Teej - January 12, 2009
I use it as much as baseball-reference
and that’s a lot of usage.
JI - January 12, 2009
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.
esoteric - January 12, 2009
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.
JI - January 12, 2009
Huh. Guess it's just an aesthetic difference of opinion.
esoteric - January 12, 2009
Black on white is way easier on the eyes
JI - January 12, 2009
And B-R has lightning fast loading speeds
Jeff Sullivan - January 12, 2009
Most of the time
JI - January 12, 2009
Although I do appreciate the Fangraphs will accept nearly any typo and bring to the player I want
JI - January 12, 2009
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.
Teej - January 12, 2009
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.
esoteric - January 12, 2009
Even if B-R added wOBA, I'd still visit Fangraphs for WE and the articles.
JI - January 12, 2009
I think that StatCorner and their excellent staff deserve equal props
Robert - January 12, 2009
I question their hiring practices.
JI - January 12, 2009
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.
GhettoBear04 - January 12, 2009
Where are the ZIPS projections?
JI - January 12, 2009
I think we will need to wait until all the 2009 ZIPS are released.
Edgar for Pres - January 12, 2009
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!
D.Szymborski - January 13, 2009
Whoops, misreading on my part
Still, yeah, not a big deal.
Jeff Sullivan - January 13, 2009
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.
ThundaPC - January 12, 2009
What...
No CHONE Figgins projections? I’m disappointed.
section331 - January 12, 2009
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.
dkappelman - January 13, 2009
PMR to go side by side with UZR would be so awesome.
Double06 - January 13, 2009
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