Updates to the site
Posted by JG on August 9th, 2009
After finally figuring out a better way to run the stats gathering routine so it’s now almost completely automated, the numbers are getting updated more regularly. That’s good. And since the numbers are getting updated more regularly, started messing around with different ways to present them:
- The standings page has been re-formatted and CSS is used more effectively throughout the site to position elements and make page layouts more consistent.
- A new leaderboards page has been added to show the top 10 entries in a number of statistical categories, including Winning percentage (W/GS), Staff ERA, No Decisions and Fielding-Independent Pitching (FIP).
- Another new page shows projected wins using a simple formula to predict total wins for each entry based on pitchers’ winning percentage and their projected number of remaining starts (remaining team games divided by five).
- When stats are updated (usually in the morning) a notification is automagically posted to Twitter. New posts to this blog are also auto-tweeted. So if you follow @SixPitchers, you’ll have daily stats updates and bi-annual blog posts to look forward to.
It took a while to get started this year, and even longer to post something new to the blog, but we’ve got some post-All Star break momentum to carry us through the stretch drive.
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