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cpsievert / pitchRx

Tools for scraping MLB Gameday data and Visualizing PITCHf/x
http://cpsievert.github.io/pitchRx/
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Add Batted Ball Velocities #29

Closed cpsievert closed 8 years ago

cpsievert commented 9 years ago

Baseball savant has them and apparently they are the gameday site, but where are they located?

dlependorf commented 9 years ago

Oh man, this would be a godsend. Wish I knew where the files were, but maybe this somewhat cryptic tweet means more to you than it does to me?

It's available in the feed file that gets linked out of the gameday application rather than in the usual location.

cpsievert commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately these are hosted elsewhere in JSON format -> https://twitter.com/darenw/status/615928648676216832

dlependorf commented 9 years ago

Aha! Well, at least we know. Somewhat annoyingly, it looks like the batted ball velo/angle data is only held in the description (and description_es) text strings, not as separate field/values, but that probably isn't too hard to get around.

cpsievert commented 8 years ago

If anyone is interested in this, here is a post you may find useful

(closing since I don't think this is worth adding into pitchRx itself)