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Comment on Historical Catcher Block Percentage by Seriously… A New Post??? « Far From Port

Seriously… A New Post??? « Far From Port — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:23:50 +0000

[...] good behind the plate as I mentioned earlier. However, as shown in past blogs by Dan Turkenkopf in 07, 08, and 09. Bard has been about average defensively. He has continually gotten worse and I suspect [...]

Comment on Historical Catcher Block Percentage by 2009 Catcher Defense: Filling in the Holes (yet again)

2009 Catcher Defense: Filling in the Holes (yet again) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:05:32 +0000

[...] in the links provided. Versions of WOWY for catchers have also been done by Brian Cartwright and Dan Turkenkopf. I would do it that way if I could. The main issue is that 1) it’s pretty complicated, and [...]

Comment on How to link PITCHf/x to Retrosheet by Dan Turkenkopf

Dan Turkenkopf — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:08:43 +0000

Hi Dan,

I don’t know if the hardcoded username/password near the top of the pitchfxparser.py file might be causing you problem?

If that’s not it, drop me an email and I’ll see if I can help some more.

Comment on How to link PITCHf/x to Retrosheet by Dan

Dan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:54:27 +0000

Thanks for making these scripts public!

After setting up the pitchfx database, I run the python script and get a 1049 error: unknown database ‘pitchfx’. When I launch mysql and do “show databases;”, pitchfx is there along with all the necessary tables.

And if I create a different connection to a different database with the MySQLdb call, it works fine (so the problem is not a bad host name or environmental variable, it seems).

Any ideas on what’s going on here?

Comment on How to link PITCHf/x to Retrosheet by Can we measure a fielder’s range? « MySportsScoop.com

Can we measure a fielder’s range? « MySportsScoop.com — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:59:59 +0000

[...] Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at 20 Sunset Rd., Newark, DE 19711.) Dan Turkenkopf has a great parser that links the Gameday XML files up with the appropriate Retrosheet IDs. A few SQL queries later, and bingo, data! I filtered for all ground balls and divided them up by [...]

Comment on Do Relievers Throw Harder? by Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:37:31 +0000

Nice article. Thanks. Eugene

Comment on Catcher Block Percentage by Meet Pudge Rodriguez : WasWatching.com

Meet Pudge Rodriguez : WasWatching.com — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:19:21 +0000

[...] or passed balls department. (Rodriguez’ issues with blocking pitches has also been noted in a study by Dan Turkenkopf done earlier this [...]

Comment on Looking at Pitches on the Edges by drew

drew — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:33:22 +0000

you should blog on yankee;s moves or something

Comment on Looking at Pitches on the Edges by drew

drew — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:38:58 +0000

Where are the updates? I need more info!!!! Stop hanging out with friends and family and crunch so numbers.

Comment on How to link PITCHf/x to Retrosheet by Corey Dawkins

Corey Dawkins — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:20:10 +0000

Hi, I’m in the process of building the database like you described but I’m getting an error when I try to start parsing (both in IDLE and also the command line)

SyntaxError: EOL while scanning single-quoted string

Any advice on how to fix this?