Generating Opening Day Rosters from Retrosheet Event Files Using R
I wanted to utilize the Opening Day MLB rosters for various season replays in my computer-based simulations, but I wasn’t able to locate this information in the usual places (Baseball-Reference, Retrosheet, etc.) I belatedly found out that a number of individuals and volunteers in the sabermetric community have already done this work, scouring box scores […]
Batting Order Optimization
… or, Everybody Needs A S[t]imulating Hobby A Little History … I’d been playing roto and salary cap baseball games online for about 15 years when I realized that I needed to be able to determine a player’s relative value better. I was pretty handy at Excel (or so I thought) but I was doing […]
