Baseball-reference.com

[jaybird2001wi]

The more and more I look at baseball-reference.com, the more I become amazed. I remember just two years ago the web site didn't have as many features as it does now. Now I am addicted to looking at the past drafts the Brewers have had. What is everyone else's favorite feature of the site?

 

We drafted the recently deceased Josh Hancock in the fourth round in the 1996 draft? Matt Morris was drafted by the Brewers? We also drafted Jeromy Burnitz but he didn't sign with us.

[DocLuna7]

How about the random spin? Its always nice to see what random player from the '80s shows up to provide a bit of entertainment at work.

[bball123h2]

Nice to know I share a birthday with Lou Pinella and Carlos Quentin. That site is becoming a bigger and bigger waste of my time (in a good way).

[jaybird2001wi]

I just took the random spin and somehow Chad Moeller was the first that came up. Hmmmm.....

[JoeHova]

I've probably visted b-r.com an average of 5 times a day over the last 5-6 years and that number is steadily climbing. Sean Forman does a great job with the site and there are a ton of unexpected features.

[UeckerAddict]

Does anyone own the Elias Sports Bureau record book? Just wondering if it is as valuable as I figured it would be.

[GAME05]

looks like i've just killed 20 minutes of my workday. awesome. thanks.

[bretsky07]

awesome, in addition to Zach Braddock, I share a birthday with Julio Franco, Mark Bellhorn, and Casey Blake. And also Rick Springfield, Barbara Eden, RIver Phoenix, and Rex Grossman, but those I learned on Wikipedia.

 

Also, Random is fun... I got Pat Neshek(we just faced him in Minnesota, he's from madison), and Ben Hendrickson.

 

... Thanks for helping me waste time!

[rousieboy]

I like the baseball cube (the one at sports-wired.com) for it's depth and ability to track a players transaction history...

 

Mike Caldwell was traded for Willie McCovey type of useless knowledge...they also track the draft history pretty well too...

[splitterpfj]

I was born on the same day as Robin Ventura, I wonder if he knows that? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Ayt]

I love looking at the leaderboards for old timey players. Ty Cobb's leaderboard rankings are absurd. He did everything and he basically did it all better than any of his peers.

[Fatter than Joey]

I like the Oracle/teammates feature -- where you can link teammates in a seven degrees of Kevin Bacon way.

 

For example

 

Babe Ruth played with Lefty Gomez for the 1934 New York Yankees

Lefty Gomez played with Early Wynn for the 1943 Washington Senators

Early Wynn played with Tommy John for the 1963 Cleveland Indians

Tommy John played with Mike Morgan for the 1982 New York Yankees

Mike Morgan played with Chad Moeller for the 2002 Arizona Diamondbacks

[jschris]

FTJ beat me by a couple of minutes. The Oracle is just plain fun. I try to link the most obscure 19th century players to a modern player just to see how many links it would take.

[BrewCrewForever]

No doubt one of my favorite websites ever. I could spend hours messing around on that site. Anytime I want baseball info on anything, I go to baseball-reference.com. I would like to thank whoever created and maintains that site.

[1992casey]

It sounds like I'm going to spend a lot more time at Baseball-Reference.com. I guess I haven't done my fair share of exploring over there recently.

 

If I don't remember to do this on my own, once this thread has run its course, I'd appreciate a PM reminder to archive this thread somewhere so it doesn't drop away (probably in Statistical Analysis). I'd like to link to this from the MLB Forum FAQ.

[ajgodson]

B-R.com is awesome. I like thebaseballcube.com, too for the college and minor league stats. Add in Retrosheet and I'm unstoppable!

[patrickgpe]

yeah i used it only for stats, guess there is a lot more too it, great now i have another way to waste time at work.

[Kurt]

Best baseball site, period. (er non-brewer's specific site) The addition to have the current up to date stats this year makes is even better!

[Jopal78]

According to the Oracle:

 

Cecil Fielder played with David Bell on the 1998 Cleveland Indians

David Bell then played with Prince Fielder on the 2006 Brewers.

 

Wow.

[hauser42]

I really like this site it is loaded with info.

 

Checked my B-Day.

 

My most hated Brewer Jenks has the same day. What a let down at least my middle son shares that day with me and is becoming a baseaball nut also.

 

Hendu, Al " Mad Hungarian" Hrabosky, Mike Hegan and Hall of Famer Johnny Evers are also that day .

[splitterpfj]

One of my best childhood friends...he turned 'em down.

 

(begins to meditate, to regain inner peace)

 

www.baseball-reference.com/draft/?name=hilleshiem

[chuckiehacks]

Checked out the birthday page, no one really cool except Freddie Lynn. Then I see Eric Owens. I have one baseball sitting on my desk, a home run I caught at County Stadium. Who hit it? Eric Owens.

 

Its one of only 26 in existance.

[monty57]

Good to see the Brewers are only 341 games under .500 for their tenure. Nothing nine straight 100-win seasons won't cure.

 

I've never really ventured too far into the site, thanks for the heads up.

[monty57]

Jenkins is only 59 starts in LF from holding the Brewers record for most starts at that position (currently held by Ben Ogilvie with 899). That's something he should do this season.

 

Cirillo at 3B (848 games) and Burnitz in RF (737 games) could be records Braun and Hart could touch if they both stay healthy and productive. The rest of them are too far off to fathom. Yount has started more at both SS (1479) and CF (1150) then any other Brewer.

 

Ah, the days before free agency.

[TracyThom]

I've been looking for a site that lists prior June amateur draft picks. Did you know that the Brewers could have drafted David Wright instead of Mike Jones in 2001? I also didn't realize that Gabe Gross was drafted a few picks after the perviously mentioned Jones.