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Generating Opening Day Rosters from Retrosheet Event Files Using R

May 31, 2023

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…

Defensive Lineups By Decade

Hardball Retrospective – Defensive Lineups by Decade

December 8, 2018

Defensive Lineups by Decade provides a team-by-team reference for every ballplayer since 1901 that meets the defensive games played standards outlined below. The team rosters are constructed using “Original” players as defined in Hardball Retrospective such that players signing their…