Age Filters!
Age filtering is now available on the leaderboards for full season batting and pitching stats. This will forever be known as the Dave Cameron feature, because he’s been asking for this in increased frequency for quite a while now.
There’s lots of neat stuff you can do with this, like see all qualified batters in their age 18-24 seasons since 2005.
Or maybe which teams have benefited the most from pitchers age 30 and up since 2000.
Basically, you can now slice and dice by age to your hearts content.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
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Thumbs up Dave…I have been wishing for this feature.
Nice addition. Any chance that age can be added as one of the columns displayed in the leaderboards and projections?
You can add age through the custom leaderboards:
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=y&type=8&season=2011&month=0&season1=2011&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=0&players=0#custom
I’ll look into adding age to projections.
I thought this was announcing a new Fangraphs section for readers aged 18+
that would be the collected works of cistulli, i believe
pastadiving jeter stole my comment, but I was going to say Dayn Perry.
Also, I read your name as pasta-diving jeter at first.
Pretty sure its a reference to the giant sculpture of Derek Jeter made entirely of lasagna noodles in Central Park, Cwik.
Fusilli Jeter!
This reminds me: be very careful when you image-search Yu Darvish.
An example of the great stuff you can find on the site now using these filters.
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2011&month=0&season1=1982&ind=0&team=0,ss&rost=0&age=35,39&players=0
Those are the league totals for all position players 35 and older each year over the last 30 years. For all the talk about how steroids helped create a new breed of superstar old guy, the average WAR per 600 PA hasn’t really changed much at all over since 1982. There’s certainly been a significant growth in playing time given to older players, but that is to be expanded given expansion, as there are now more roster spots to fill than there used to be.
Wouldn’t the growth of the potential player pool (foreign countries/pop. growth) counter that expansion in theory?
Older players are really, really bad at fielding and baserunning!
I’ll agree with Light Sabermetrics and say that plate appearances and total WAR contribution by old people from 2000-2004 stand out like Sammy Sosa’s home run totals two years prior.
Presumably these filters only use “baseball age” and not the age at which the performances occurred?
It looks that way, considering, for instance, that Madison Bumgarner was already 20 when he made his MLB debut yet shows up on this filter for players aged 19 or less.
Yes, it’s baseball age, which is set at July 1st.
This is awesome! Is there a way to pull out just one year as an age range? When I set the age min to 20 and the age max to 20, I get no results. I assumed this would give me the results for players’ age-20 seasons.
Check to make sure you’re not looking at just qualified players. Doing age 20 to 20 will work and give you just age 20.
http://www.fangraphs.com/leaders.aspx?pos=all&stats=bat&lg=all&qual=0&type=8&season=2011&month=0&season1=2011&ind=0&team=0&rost=0&age=20,20&players=0
Best Fangraphs announcement ever!
Now if only the site launched with the cursor already in the player search field . . .
/greedy
I hate websites with the cursor is already active somewhere, because the first thing I always do on my home laptop is hit the down arrow key to scroll.
Well stop doing that.
Great, now I never have to go to ESPN’s website again!
Yay!
There wasn’t one before?
No. If, for example, you wanted to compute Joey Votto’s wRC+ for the last three years combined, you would have to compute that yourself. Now, we don’t have to.
Or am I mistaken? Is this not available for the individual player pages? Color me only slightly excited if not.
Awesome. Now I don’t have to go to B-Ref to do this.
The fact that you do not have weight filters yet again proves your anti-Detroit bias.
I assumed that the As would be at the bottom of the ‘WAR by pitchers over 30 by team’ charts. After looking, I realized that you can’t be at the bottom of the chart if you are getting WAR from pitchers over 30. Ergo, the Pirates.
Nice. Here is what I asked for “splits capability” in the forum a while ago.
What I’d like to be able to see is splits data broken down by both pitcher and hitter handedness. Currently you can only select splits based on the total population of hitters vs either a LH or RH pitcher. What I’d like to see are splits of the total population of RH batters vs LH pitchers. Where the handedness of both the hitter and pitcher were selectable.
Any chances of seeing something like this soon?
vr, Xei
Great!
Appreciate this enhancement, but do you think will see Pre and Post-ASB filters soon?