January 2006
Beginner
467 pages
14h 21m
English
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Make Box Scores or Database Tables from Play-by-Play Data with Retrosheet Tools
Turn historical event files into box scores, summary statistics, and events suitable for database import using Chadwick and the DiamondWare tools.
It’s pretty tough to work directly with the Retrosheet event files. They contain a description of everything that happened, but they’re dense and hard to read. Two sets of tools can make things easier. These tools turn the event files into box scores and tables suitable for databases. There’s even a new GUI-driven tool that can help you explore these files.
These tools don’t include any data, nor do they fetch it from the Internet. Before using them, you’ll need to get some baseball data. See “Get Historical Play-by-Play Data” [Hack #14] for more information.
A company called DiamondWare developed a set of three tools for Microsoft Windows for processing Retrosheet–style event files. These are:
- BGAME
The BGAME tool will import an event file and output a CSV file with one line per game containing summary statistics about each game. These statistics include home team, visiting team, runs scored, starting pitchers, umpires, starting lineups, and other information about each game.
- BOX
The BOX tool generates a set of box scores from a historical event file. Many users will find a one-page box score easier to understand than 200 lines of event codes.
- BEVENT
The BEVENT tool will import an event file and output a CSV file with one event per line, suitable for import into ...
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