Over the previous a number of months, we’ve been engaged on including customization options to our participant pages for FanGraphs Members, specializing in data that’s pertinent for present main leaguers. In case you are a Member and signed in, now you can configure and save three to 6 totally different customized dashboard playing cards for batters and pitchers.
You’ll discover a grey bar on the prime of the participant pages beneath the participant identify header. For those who click on on the Participant Dashboard hyperlink on the best that claims “Open Settings,” it should open the dashboard controls:
There are two components to the controls. First, you may set the variety of playing cards displayed. Presently, you may select between hiding the entire playing cards, displaying three playing cards, or displaying six playing cards (two rows of three playing cards). To the best of these show choices, you’ve gotten the flexibility to toggle between viewing your present settings or viewing the entire obtainable playing cards for a participant and his place (batting stats vs. pitching stats):
When you have “Card Settings” chosen, you may select between the totally different playing cards for every slot. The Card Settings will save a separate structure for batters and pitchers. Within the drop-downs for every card slot, you may choose any of the obtainable playing cards for any slot you need. Clicking “Default” will reset the slot to its preliminary worth. The fourth, fifth and sixth slots shall be clean, since we don’t have defaults set for them:
Beneath are descriptions for the dashboard playing cards we presently have obtainable.
Pitchers and batters:
Fast Look (Default)
Our default fast stats for gamers. This card contains the present season, projections, and profession values for main league gamers. It additionally has a tab for prospect grades.
RosterResource Abstract (Default)
Our default draft, contract, and roster data. This card has a abstract of the essential data obtainable on RosterResource.
Information (Default)
Our default information data for the participant. This card contains Rotowire information, in addition to hyperlinks to the items from our editorial workers that the participant has been tagged in.
Spark Graphs (Three and Six Graphs) NEW!
We now have spark graphs that present rolling stats over a participant’s final 15 video games for place gamers and 5 video games for pitchers. We created two totally different grid sizes: three graphs and 6 graphs. The three-graphs choice provides extra element, like a labeled y-axis, however the six-graph choice has extra stats obtainable. We hope to have extra choices obtainable sooner or later:
Participant Rater (12 and 15 groups) NEW!
Earlier this yr, we launched our fantasy-centric Participant Rater, which feeds a helpful participant card for fantasy gamers:
RosterResource Transaction Tracker NEW!
This card pulls information from our RosterResource Transaction Tracker. It options trades, contract signings, and roster strikes associated to the participant:
Pitchers Solely
Pitch Modeling (Stuff+ and PitchingBot) NEW!
We created a horizontal bar graph card to show pitch modeling information, with pitches listed in descending order from the pitcher’s most-used pitch to his least-used pitch. We’ve solely included these pitches with >5% utilization fee. You’ll be able to view the three mannequin sorts — Stuff+, Location+, and Pitching+ — for Stuff+, and Stuff, Command, and General for PitchingBot:
Batters Solely
RosterResource Lineup Tracker NEW!
Utilizing RosterResource’s lineup data, this card features a lineup place cut up by beginning pitcher handedness, in addition to a abstract of how the participant entered the sport (as a starter, pinch-hitter, defensive substitute, and so forth.). We solely show data for a participant’s present crew, so if he switched groups, his lineup tracker shall be principally clean and his season abstract depend will reset.
For the sake of context, we embrace the next:
- Complete crew video games: What number of video games the crew has performed.
- Accessible crew video games: Estimated video games the place the participant was the obtainable for his present crew. This excludes free company, time spent taking part in for different groups, and time spent within the minors or on the IL, and so forth. This means if the participant was on the lively roster and will play within the recreation.
A just lately acquired participant would have a excessive variety of complete crew video games, however would solely be thought of obtainable for the few video games he spent along with his present crew. You’d see related numbers for a participant who spent many of the season on the IL or in Triple-A.
The lineup calendar will replace in actual time when lineup data turns into obtainable. Mixture information is pulled from our recreation log information and is up to date nightly:
These customized dashboard playing cards are in beta mode, as we’re nonetheless growing this function; the playing cards may change rapidly or have options eliminated. Please tell us in case you have any suggestions or questions, both by leaving a remark under or emailing help@fangraphs.com. We’re additionally open to function requests, particularly concepts for added playing cards that you’d discover helpful. Thanks to David Appelman and Keaton Arneson. They each labored actually laborious to develop the preliminary idea and assist create this device. And thanks for being a FanGraphs Member. Your help permits us to develop instruments like this!
