Short-term Dirty Work

• Fix the career stats generation problem.
• Fix any problematic names throughout history.
• Display game high information.
• Generate and display team game highs.
• Figure out how to upload current season game data to historical datbase, on a daily basis.
• Generate box scores automatically.
• Develop automatically generated calendars and interfaces for box scores.
• Develop season leaders pages for pitchers.
• Put more interesting stats on the main leaders page.
• Convert the playoff game data into play-by-play format.
• Generate stats for all playoff years.
• Convert the book into a digestible package.
• Make the stats pages more inter-linked and more navigable.
• Write a brief history of the Bases Produced project.

Stat Ideas

• Team Game Highs.
• Recalculate the revised stats for this year and for as many past years as possible.
• Create the Bases Produced Encyclopedia.
• Change the calculation of BPAVG and TBPAVG for pitchers to be based on batters faced and inherited runners only.
• Swing analysis.
• By that I mean: swing propensities, swing sensitivity (the "good eye" factor), swing bias (who's the freeest swinger?), in-play percentage, bunt propensity, etc.
• Swing analysis by team. :-)
• Likewise: calculate sac bunt attempts which don't end a plate appearance.
• Battery error percentages.
• Pick-off attempt propensities, pitchout propensities (by pitcher and runner).
• Base Stealing Percentages by catcher.
• Ball/strike analysis for pitchers.
• Bases Produced by partnership (i.e., which teammates work best together on offense?).
• Count only those Bases Produced which lead to a run being scored.
• Umpire strike sensitivity.
• Transitional probabilities.
• Walk-off hits/Walk-off opportunities
• Pinch Hitting stats
• Stats by batting order
• Leads Produced and Leads Lost
• Likewise: Ties Produced and Ties Lost (out of Tie Production Opportunities, etc.)

Technical Aspirations

• None at the present time, apparently.

Presentation Ideas

• GAME HIGHS
• Present a wider variety of stats on the "Main Leaders" page
• Provide links to player and team names on each stat leader and stat total page.
• Turn stat headers into links so that users can click them to re-sort that page by that stat.
• Fix the Box Scores problem.
• Make a Box Score calendar for each year
• Career statistics.
• Learn all about cascading style sheets.
• Day-by-day game log listings for each player.
• Need links from individual stat pages to offensive stat, pitching stat and fielding stat menus.
• Make Game High Database searchable by game date.
• Generate standings pages for past years.

Analysis Dreams

• Determine success and propensity rates of XBR3 and 1XBR4 attempts by where the ball was hit into the field.
• Find out if pitchers are more likely to walk the next batter right after an intentional walk.
• How much do PPEBR contribute to the likelihood of a team scoring a run?
• TBPA by location of where a ball was hit. (Applies to ground balls as well as balls hit to the outfield).
• Optimal batting order simulations.
• When do Bases Gained happen?
• Correlation of Team Base Production Average, for a given player, over a series of years.

In General

• Get more people involved with the project.
• Make as much data and as many analysis tools available as possible.
• Find out what other people are up to.

Contact: swinters A T ucalgary D O T ca