FanGraphs+ Updates and Quick Poll
The FanGraphs+ player profiles section now includes team and position.
Also we’ve found a few missing profiles including Billy Butler, Johan Santana, Kendrys Morales, and Franklin Gutierrez.
I’d also like to gauge whether or not we should explore putting the FanGraphs+ content into an eBook / PDF format. Poll after the jump:
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
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The attack of Johan Santa!
What an unfortunate name for the lazily coded linkifyer.
You guys do a great job with this, but to be able to dump all of the content into a PDF I can’t imagine is a lot of work.
Also, showing the 2012 projections on the player profiles is helpful to compare the past results with future expectations.
I would also recommend, if published, to do so organized in some useful way like by position or “value” rather than by team or, the most useless, alphabetical order.
So organize by position, suborganize by value, and add an alphebetical index?
Yes, please organize by position and rank each position by value.
Thanks Dark Overlord!
Where’s the answer: “I purchased Fangraphs+ and enjoy the online content. I’d be doubly happy if Fangraphs threw in an ebook/PDF copy for free with my subscription”?
I can’t be the only one looking for a Tom Milone player profile, right?
Quick profile: He’s not relevant for fantasy baseball… not even in a keeper league. No. 4-5 starter ceiling.
Haters gwanna hate.
In an ideal world: Online, sortable in a variety of ways, and with 2012 projections.
I’d very much love a .pdf.
Your guys’ site is kind of janky on Ipad (or Ipad is janky), and it’s no fun reading that much content while sitting at a desk.
+Fangraphs + lounging on my back = supreme contentment.
David:
I put together a PDF of FanGraphs+ for my own personal use last night. I’d be happy to do a little more work on it, add some additional formatting, maybe sort the player profiles by position, anything you want. It’s all set up in Scrivener and shouldn’t take much to output to any format of eBook you’d want.
Scrivener was a really good suggestion. It should be very easy to get at least a simple PDF up and running.
Yeah, it’s an excellent program.
Is there any value in this if you don’t play fantasy baseball?
You’re getting mini-scouting reports for all the players… they’re of interest for real-life baseball too.
Are there pre-purchase samples of these somewhere?
To be clearer, I’d buy this if I knew why
You also get the articles that Fangraphs publishes for ESPN. There’s some good stuff there; granted it’s only about one or two articles a week, but there is the non-fantasy content.
It’s $5…
Honestly, the only thing I would have liked in addition to this would be a way to push the profiles to an excel document. I have an offline draft that goes 480 players deep and I create my own custom application to walk into the draft with (only I use it and it is NOT available for others…not about to give away your awesome content). I love the profiles and was able to export them manually and add to my application, but it would have made it a bit easier to have an export function. No big deal and it definitely is NOT a deal breaker for me.