2.5 Beefs

[BABSatron]

BHQ-

2.5 Beefs...

First, the 1/2 a beef, if it even is one... Randall Grichuk's splits for 2025 look inverted. You have him killing it against RHP, and doing poorly against LHP. Should it be the opposite?

Second, I mentioned this last year and it is not fixed... when you are look at a player profile.... and you go to the game log, it starts with the first game of the season at the top. That's fine, but if I want to look at the most recent games, I have to scroll all the way down. Could you make the default be the most recent game at the top? But wait, if I click on the date header to sort in the opposite direction, chaos ensues as there is no logic to how things are sorted. I brought this up last year and it is not fixed. This is a bug. Boo.

Third, could you change the formatting for your tables... some of your tables are really long vertically. If I find a player that I'm interested in way down the list, I have no idea what the columns are, so I have to scroll all the way up. Could you please default to having a fixed header and then allow the scrolling of players on the list.

Fourth (see how I added one?)... could you have filters on many of your tables that allow one to filter out NL or AL only, or even have it be based on teams... At minimum, NL/AL filtering would be really useful for mono league players. The info from the players from the other league is just noise and it make it harder to analyze.

ALL of these things are really simple fixes. Not pie in the sky.... I would expect for my annual subscription, that these could get done in a timely manner. Is that too much to ask? If your data are so valuable, don't you want to prioritize the presentation of the data to maximize insights? See Edward Tufte...

[RAY@HQ]

Thanks for the note. Luckily, most/all of these are either in progress or easy to fix. Let's go beef-by-beef:

BHQ-

2.5 Beefs...

First, the 1/2 a beef, if it even is one... Randall Grichuk's splits for 2025 look inverted. You have him killing it against RHP, and doing poorly against LHP. Should it be the opposite?

They look inverted but they're not. He is indeed killing RHers so far this year.

Second, I mentioned this last year and it is not fixed... when you are look at a player profile.... and you go to the game log, it starts with the first game of the season at the top. That's fine, but if I want to look at the most recent games, I have to scroll all the way down. Could you make the default be the most recent game at the top? But wait, if I click on the date header to sort in the opposite direction, chaos ensues as there is no logic to how things are sorted. I brought this up last year and it is not fixed. This is a bug. Boo.

This was annoying me as well, just today. Maybe because those logs are getting longer now. I agree they should have newest at top. We'll get that flipped.

Third, could you change the formatting for your tables... some of your tables are really long vertically. If I find a player that I'm interested in way down the list, I have no idea what the columns are, so I have to scroll all the way up. Could you please default to having a fixed header and then allow the scrolling of players on the list.

We have this fixed in some places and are rolling it out slowly across the site. If you look at, say, the SP Matchups table or the The Week Ahead table, you can scroll the table inline and the header stays visible. We'll be pushing that format out across the other site tables soon.

Fourth (see how I added one?)... could you have filters on many of your tables that allow one to filter out NL or AL only, or even have it be based on teams... At minimum, NL/AL filtering would be really useful for mono league players. The info from the players from the other league is just noise and it make it harder to analyze.

Yes, as one of the table creators, I've tried to adopt this as a standard. It probably wasn't when we built some of these tables initially, but it's an easy fix. Just point out to me where it would be helpful and I can add the league/team filter. Not a big deal at all...

ALL of these things are really simple fixes. Not pie in the sky.... I would expect for my annual subscription, that these could get done in a timely manner. Is that too much to ask? If your data are so valuable, don't you want to prioritize the presentation of the data to maximize insights? See Edward Tufte...

Absolutely, none of these things are hard to implement. I think we're doing a good job of doubling back to this detail-level work in Year 2 after we were fighting through bigger issues last year. Keep pointing 'em out as you see them, and we'll keep addressing them.

[BABSatron]

Thanks Ray! Why isn't Grichuk an everyday player now!!!! Reverse splits with a history of crushing lefties! Obviously I have him rostered...

Looking forward to these changes!

[RAY@HQ]

Thanks Ray! Why isn't Grichuk an everyday player now!!!! Reverse splits with a history of crushing lefties! Obviously I have him rostered...

The DBacks probably know not to trust the sample size. It's literally 19 PA this year of him killing it vs 2000+ in his career saying he can't hit them.

[RAY@HQ]

Update: Game logs in Playerlink have been flipped so newest entry is top of page. And we'll fix the issue with sorting by date.