{"id":2026,"date":"2026-01-05T20:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2026-01-05T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:53:11","slug":"data-data-and-more-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visual-baseball.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/05\/data-data-and-more-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Data, Data, and More Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first week of 2026 has been spent largely on updating game and event data from the massive Retrosheet data sets. Even limiting the number of data elements to a small subset of the event data yields a considerable amount of information to analyze. Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s new (for my databases) this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2023-2025 season event data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1950-1953 season event data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1910-1949 season event data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What do we find in this data? For my subset, these are the bits of data I can use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>game id (a unique combination based on date and the home team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>visiting team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>inning (in which an event occurred)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>batting team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the number of outs, balls, and strikes at the time of an event<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the score at the time of the event<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>batter &amp; pitcher information (left-handed, right-handed, etc.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>event type (single, double, home run, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus a wealth of additional information to be mined, analyzed, and visualized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Retrosheet is missing events for a small percentage of games between 1910 and 1970, the data is otherwise remarkably comprehensive. Now that I have it stored locally, you should start seeing some interesting analyses on this site for 2026. 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