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Playoff-Related Play Index Tools
Posted by Neil on October 5, 2012
With the playoffs starting today, here's a rundown of the Play Index tools you can use to run playoff-themed searches...
- Player Game Finders - The batting and pitching Game Finders have a postseason option that lets you find things like the most WPA in a playoff game or the most career 10+ strikeout games in the playoffs. You can even refine the searches by the round and/or game number of the series.
- Player & Team Streak Finders - Our batting and pitching streak finders also have a postseason option, so you can find the longest playoff hit streaks (among other searches). You can also use the Team Batting & Pitching Streak Finders to search for the longest postseason team streaks.
- Team Game Finders - Team batting and pitching game finders let you search for things like the fewest hits allowed by a team in a playoff game. Another cool trick is to use the "Find Teams with Most Matching Games in a Season" option to find, say, the teams that hit the most HR in a single World Series.
- Event Finders - We have special Postseason Batting & Pitching Event Finders let you pull specific event types out of our postseason play-by-play files, which cover the entire modern World Series era (1903-2012).
Is it possible to do a play index search for league leaders?
For example, set the criteria so search for players winning the triple crown? That would be easy enough to find through other sources, but it would be cool to be able to search this way. For example, how many players have won the rate triple crown, ba-obp-slg? What about custom triple crowns, like BA-runs-steals?
Would be great if you had career leaders pages for total post-season, DCS, LCS, and World Series- matching the season career leaders pages.
How about it?
I'm trying to use the Play Index to figure out what postseason team had the most different pitchers with a save in one year, is there a way to do that?
I really like your play index for batting order positions. It would be cool to have a similar one for team performance by fielding position.
#1 - Unfortunately, we don't have anything that lets you query based on a player's ranking within the league.
#2 - We have some leaderboards like that here:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/Playoffs_batting.shtml
http://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/Playoffs_pitching.shtml
#3 - I believe this is what you want:
http://bbref.com/pi/shareit/YV4aK
#4 - Is this what you were looking for?
http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/split.cgi?t=b&team=WSN&year=2012#defp::none
Thanks but that just gives me total saves per team per year in the postseason. It doesn't indicate how many different pitchers received a save.
Neil @5
Your link to #3 gives us the results but when I click "view Play Index tool used" all I see is a generic looking page. I can't tell what criteria you used to get these results. I think that's the real question: HOW did you get these results?