Missed Games in Batting Gamelogs
Posted by Sean Forman on July 10, 2009
Manny Ramirez 2009 Batting Gamelogs - Baseball-Reference.com
For now this is just for 2009. I've added a note to the Gtm column (Team Game number), that shows cases where the batter missed a series of team games. This is a little funky for pitchers, but for batters it shows the number of games missed between the game in that row and the previous game. I don't show this at the end of the year or when a player switches teams because that is too hard to calculate and this took about 15 minutes to implement. Hmm, why did Manny have that 50 game gap?
A writer for the NY Daily News (which will have a profile of B-R this Sunday) gave me the idea.
July 10th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
To be honest, I don't see the point. Especially when it comes to players who only play every so often, what good is it knowing that Fernando Tatis missed a game here, two games there. And yes, for pitchers it just becomes absurd. I liked that column when it was neater.
July 10th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
I think its cool. A great and easy way to see when a player missed time due to injuries or suspension. Obviously all people wont see eye to eye on this
July 10th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I'm all for more info. However, if you could put it in a different field to keep things uniform, it would probably be best. Whenever I copy info into a spreadsheet, any fields which are not uniform (such as dates with double headers) throw things off.
Thank you for constantly improving your website.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Do you have a link to the Daily News article? I can't find it.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/2009/07/18/2009-07-18_how_an_unknown_former_professor.html
July 25th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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