Major League Forum FAQs: Rules, Tag Tips & Guidelines, Resources

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BREWERFAN.NET MAJOR LEAGUE FORUM RULES

• Please follow all message board rules as outlined in the Rules of Conduct. Also, keep in mind the site's discipline policy.
• Please use current threads or designated threads when they're available. Note that designated threads have been assigned as 'catch-all' homes for certain types of posts.
• Please avoid posting full lineups outside of the designated lineup thread.
• If one of the designated threads has disappeared from the forum, by all means, feel free to start a new one. If you feel that you have something semi-related to an existing thread, but better discussed in a new one, please make sure your topic is framed to be very specific.
• Members are encouraged to use the board's tag feature to make threads easier to find. Please consult the second post of this thread for tag directions and guidelines.
• Please consult the Resource FAQ in the third post of this thread before asking simple questions. If you can't find the answer to your question or wish to suggest additional resources, a questions and suggestions thread is provided. Feel free to use it.

[1992casey]

BREWERFAN.NET MAJOR LEAGUE FORUM TAGS

Tags are keywords that describe a topic. They're used for filtering topics in the forums to make them easier to find. The ability to tag threads is a really neat feature that'll go a long way toward helping members locate information on the forum.

In each forum, tags can be found in a "cloud" above the discussion list. Members who start threads and moderators have the ability to add tags to a topic. In the Yuku post editor, a field for including tags is located below the box where you type your message.

Tips and guidelines:

• When deciding whether or not to create a new tag, please check existing tags to make sure that your new tag isn't adequately covered by one that already exists.
• Try not to create two similar tags. For example, we already have a 'yost' tag, so we wouldn't need a 'nedly' tag.
• Yuku has a 100 tag per forum limit, so we have to economize somewhat by using a few "catch-all" tags. For example...
  [li]Because there isn't room to tag opposing players and teams, divisional tags are provided: 'aleast', 'alcentral', etc. Please don't tag threads confined to Brewer-specific content with the 'nlcentral' tag.
  • Brewer coaches have the 'brewercoaches' tag.
  • Former Brewers have the 'formerbrewers' tag.
  • Front office personnel outside of Doug Melvin and Mark Attanasio have the 'frontoffice' tag.
  • All three playoff levels can fall under the 'playoffs' tag.
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• Tags consisting of two or more words are possible if they're separated by commas. However, certain common words (and, of, the, etc.) will be dropped from the tag. For instance, "rookie of the year" will display as "rookie year".

  Also, a lot of members may find it difficult to 'reuse' a multiple word tag. It's probably best to write tags as single words.

• If you want to add, delete, or change tags in your thread, follow the same procedure for editing a post.

Don't be afraid to use this feature when you start a new thread. Also, don't be too afraid of goofing things up. If there's an error or if new tags don't turn out to be a fit, moderators can always make adjustments.

A thread is provided for tag-related questions, comments, and issues.

[1992casey]

BREWERFAN.NET RESOURCE FAQ

Comprehensive References

Baseball-Reference.com

Baseball history reference dating back to 1871. Player stats are now updated throughout the season rather than just at the end of the season.

Baseball-Reference.com Play Index offers many search opportunities. It's a subscription service, available by the day, month or year.

Here's a Brewerfan.net message board thread discussing Baseball-Reference.com.

Retrosheet

Comprehensive baseball history site featuring box scores and game logs. This site is in frames. Break the pages out of their frames for proper bookmarking or for creating links in your messages.

Baseball Almanac

Baseball history site.

Topical References

Brewerfan.net FAQ

Roster management, Free Agency and Arbitration, Draft, Player Movement, Injury, Stats Glossary.

Site FAQ additions: trade, waiver, free agency rules

Brewerfan.net message board thread with FAQs and articles. Feel free to add or ask questions.

SABR FAQ First Draft

Another Brewerfan.net message board thread. Contains links to sabermetric articles. Again, feel free to add to the list.

Contracts and Salaries

Brewerfan.net Salary Page

This page lists salaries on the Brewers' 25-man roster (40-man roster during the off-season). It also includes arbitration and free agency dates.

Cot's Baseball Contracts

Offers contract information in blog format.

USA Today Salary Database

Includes salaries back through 1988; offers some nice sort options.

MLB4U.com Team Pages Index

Offers contract information in blog format. Links to salary information are on each team's page.

2007-2011 Collective Bargaining Agreement

A link is included to download the CBA in pdf format.

News

ESPN Major League Baseball News Wire

The most recent transmissions from ESPN.com wire sources

The Biz of Baseball

"A one-stop location for business of baseball news"

Records

MLB.com

Milestone Tracker; Active Leaders; All Time Leaders; Annual Leaders; Single Season Records; Longest Standing Records; More Historical Stats; Consecutive HR Games; Famous Home Runs; Forty-Forty Club; Four-Homer Games; Four K's, One Inning; Hit for the Cycle; Hitting Streaks; HR in First Career At-Bat; No-hitters; Rookie No-hitters; Perfect Games; Six-hit Games; Triple Crown: Batting; Triple Crown: Pitching; Monthly HR records; 30-plus HRs at break; Most parks with a HR

General Stats

ESPN MLB Statistics

Mainstream and sabermetric stats; lots of sort options. Splits are available via popup menus and via links on each player page. Career stats, individual game logs, and Batter vs. Pitcher numbers are available on each player page.

Yahoo! MLB Statistics

Mainstream stats. Splits, situational stats, career stats, Batter vs. Pitcher numbers, and individual game logs are available on each player page.

CBS SportsLine.com MLB Statistics

Mainstream stats. Situational stats and game logs are available on each player page.

Hardball Times' Player Statistics

Sabermetric Stats

The Baseball Cube

Major and minor league career stats

MinorLeagueSplits.com

Minor league splits from 2005 to date

Day By Day Batting Database and Day By Day Pitching Database

Baseball Musings offers many split options in its popup menus, including the ability to choose start and end dates.

FanGraphs

"Stats, Graphs and Analysis"

Enth

Creates new content in response to search requests

Organization Stats

ESPN

ESPN Brewers Batting, ESPN Brewers Pitching, ESPN Brewers Fielding

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Brewers Batting, Yahoo! Brewers Pitching, Yahoo! Brewers Fielding

Stats: Minorleaguebaseball.com

Nashville SoundsóMiLB.com, Huntsville StarsóMiLB.com, Brevard County ManateesóMiLB.com, West Virginia PoweróMiLB.com, Helena BrewersóMiLB.com, Arizona BrewersóMiLB.com

Brewerfan Sidebar Links

These links appear in the sidebar of the Brewerfan.net portion of the site, but aren't included in the message board skin.

Brewerfan.net Features

Other Team Links, Team History, Organization Pitches, Player Theme Music, Acquisition Chain, Leaderboard, Mozilla Search Plugins

Brewerfan.net Team Pages (Clubhouse, Transactions, Stats)

Milwaukee Brewers, Nashville Sounds, Huntsville Stars, Brevard County Manatees, West Virginia Power, Helena Brewers, Arizona Brewers