Over the previous a number of months, we have now been engaged on including customization options to our participant pages for FanGraphs Members, specializing in data that’s pertinent for present main leaguers. If you’re 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 high of the participant pages beneath the participant title header. In case you click on on the Participant Dashboard hyperlink on the appropriate that claims “Open Settings,” it would open the dashboard controls:
There are two components to the controls. First, you possibly can set the variety of playing cards displayed. At the moment, you possibly can select between hiding all the playing cards, displaying three playing cards, or displaying six playing cards (two rows of three playing cards). To the appropriate of these show choices, you’ve got the power to toggle between viewing your present settings or viewing all the accessible playing cards for a participant and his place (batting stats vs. pitching stats):
If in case you have “Card Settings” chosen, you possibly can 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 possibly can choose any of the accessible playing cards for any slot you need. Clicking “Default” will reset the slot to its preliminary worth. The fourth, fifth and sixth slots might be clean, since we don’t have defaults set for them:
Beneath are descriptions for the dashboard playing cards we at the moment have accessible.
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 accessible 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 employees 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 possibility presents extra element, like a labeled y-axis, however the six-graph possibility has extra stats accessible. We hope to have extra choices accessible sooner or later:
Participant Rater (12 and 15 groups) NEW!
Earlier this 12 months, we launched our fantasy-centric Participant Rater, which feeds a helpful participant card for fantasy gamers:
RosterResource Transaction Tracker NEW!
This card pulls knowledge 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 knowledge, 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 price. You may 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 alternative, and so forth.). We solely show data for a participant’s present workforce, so if he switched groups, his lineup tracker might be largely clean and his season abstract rely will reset.
For the sake of context, we embrace the next:
- Whole workforce video games: What number of video games the workforce has performed.
- Obtainable workforce video games: Estimated video games the place the participant was the accessible for his present workforce. This excludes free company, time spent enjoying for different groups, and time spent within the minors or on the IL, and so forth. This means if the participant was on the energetic roster and will play within the recreation.
A not too long ago acquired participant would have a excessive variety of whole workforce video games, however would solely be thought of accessible for the few video games he spent along with his present workforce. You’d see comparable numbers for a participant who spent a lot of the season on the IL or in Triple-A.
The lineup calendar will replace in actual time when lineup data turns into accessible. Combination knowledge is pulled from our recreation log knowledge and is up to date nightly:
These customized dashboard playing cards are in beta mode, as we’re nonetheless creating this characteristic; the playing cards may change rapidly or have options eliminated. Please tell us when you have any suggestions or questions, both by leaving a remark under or emailing help@fangraphs.com. We’re additionally open to characteristic requests, particularly concepts for extra playing cards that you’d discover helpful. Thanks to David Appelman and Keaton Arneson. They each labored actually onerous to develop the preliminary idea and assist create this software. And thanks for being a FanGraphs Member. Your help permits us to develop instruments like this!
