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Try the Play Index for FREE Through April 15

Posted by Jonah Gardner on March 28, 2016

Baseball season is here and to celebrate, you can use the Play Index for free through April 15! Just go to this page, sign up, and use this coupon code: analytics

The Play Index is our name for the various tools we've built that allow you to search the hundreds of thousands of players, seasons, teams, box scores, and even plate appearances collected in our database. Of all the research methods that we offer, none is more powerful than the Play Index. Have you ever wanted to know the answer to questions like:

What hitter had the most 40 HR seasons?

Which Mets pitcher had the most strikeouts in a road game?

What team had the most 2-out RBIs in a season?

What was the best WAR in a season by a pitcher with 15 Ws or under

And that's just scratching the surface. You can search full seasons since 1871 and individual games and streaks since 1913. You can also search for splits, individual events like inside the park HRs, pitcher vs batter matchups, and much more. The Play Index is the secret weapon of journalists, bloggers, front offices, fantasy experts, historians, and more.

It's normally just $36/year, but to celebrate the start of the 2016 MLB season, we're letting you try it out for free! Go to the sign-up page and enter the coupon code "analytics" to use the Play Index for free through April 15.

3 Responses to “Try the Play Index for FREE Through April 15”

  1. MLB’s 11 Best Opening Day Starters » Sports Reference » Blog Archive Says:

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  2. schmenkman Says:

    Does anyone know what this message means in Play Index query?

    "Games found has been disabled due to the time it was taking to complete"

    Would that mean that the data the query results were incomplete?

    Thanks

  3. Mike Lynch Says:

    It just means we no longer list the total # of games matching the criteria at the bottom of the page. It was useful for searches that had, say 8,000 results, since we limit the 1st page to 300 results. However, generating that # was making the searches time out.