One of the best ways to learn about Baseball Analytics is to conduct research online. From blogs, databases, and Twitter content, there is a ton of information being put out, mostly for free, by professionals and fans within the industry. This can give you a leg up in keeping up with the industry.
For most analytics research, you can use a number of free websites that provide MLB data for your own use. Here are a few resources that we recommend to check out:
Baseball Savant
Baseball Savant is a site run by Major League Baseball that provides data from every MLB game. This is the data that is recorded by Hawkeye and offers a wide array of information. You’ll be able to review large amounts of data and check out some great visualizations, along with conducting your own research.
Brooks Baseball
Brooks Baseball strives to present the most complete, accurate, and comprehensive dataset about pitching available on the web. It’s fueled by the PITCHf/x dataset, a public resource made available by MLB and Sportvision.
Baseball-Reference
Baseball Reference is a website that provides baseball statistics for every player in Major League Baseball history. It offers a variety of advanced baseball sabermetrics in addition to traditional baseball “counting stats”.
Those are just a few websites that store game, player, or team data. While these sites do not contain any content like blogs, they provide vast information that allows you to conduct research. Here are some other popular websites that are centered around content and other public research:
Fangraphs
FanGraphs contains blogs, statistical reports and covers current issues and events, including games, injuries, forecasts, player profiles, and the day-to-day player marketplace.
Baseball Prospectus
Baseball Prospectus is a site devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well as player and team performance projections on the site. Since 1996 the BP staff has also published a Baseball Prospectus Annual as well as several other books devoted to baseball analysis and history.
Baseball America
Baseball America is a magazine and website that covers baseball at every level, with a particular focus on up-and-coming players in high school, college, Japan, and the minor leagues.
Twitter is a social media platform that’s popular amongst the baseball community. It’s become a hub where content, research, and discussion are shared directly between players, professionals, and fans within the industry. You can read about independent research, proprietary metrics, and ultimately put yourself into the day-to-day heart of the game.
Summary
These are some of the most recognized resources in the industry. While there are many sites for Baseball, and we wish we could name them all, this is a brief overview of some of the more popular ones.
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