Search tip
Posted by Andy on August 21, 2011
Just a quick tip--if you'd like to search the blog archives for posts mentioning your favorite player, team, or game, there's an easy way to do it:
- Use Google's advanced search option
- Enter baseball-reference.com/blog in the box toward the bottom labeled "Search within a site or domain"
- Then enter your search term at the top and press the search button
Some examples:
August 21st, 2011 at 1:37 pm
A quicker way to do this is to type "site:baseball-reference.com/blog " in the search box (i.e., "site:baseball-reference.com/blog Rob Deer" will yield the same results as the first example).
August 21st, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Play Index search question: Am I crazy or didn't the Player Batting Game Finder have a radio button for Team W, Team L, or Either, just as Player Pitching Game Finder does? I don't see that radio button in the Player Batting Game Finder now -- am I wrong that it was previously there?
August 21st, 2011 at 3:51 pm
i have a question. when you read that a player leads MLB in batting average since May 15, is there a place you can find those stats or search for them? they are splits (sort of), but not. maybe it is special elias info? thanks!
August 21st, 2011 at 5:01 pm
Redsock: You can do searches by date at the Day by Day Database at David Pinto's venerable baseballmusings.com. It's not as well-designed or a fraction as deep as b-ref, but it gets the job done for date-based searches.
August 21st, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Thanks for this bit of information, I will be sure to use it.
August 21st, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Yes, this was very informative.
August 21st, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Thank you, birtelcom!
August 22nd, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Is there a way to filter for players who are officially rookies?
August 24th, 2011 at 7:16 am
You can as well use some of the following commands in the google search field. They are often very usefull:
site:
Restrict a search to a single site
allintitle:
Restrict a search so that all the keywords must appear in the title
intitle:
Restrict a search so that some of the keywords must appear in the title
allintext:
Restrict a search so that all of the keywords must appear in the body text
allinurl:
Restrict a search so that all of the keywords must appear in the page
address
inurl:
Restrict a search so that some keywords must appear in the page address