Over the previous a number of months, we now have 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 3-6 completely 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. When you click on on the Participant Dashboard hyperlink on the proper that claims “Open Settings,” it would open the dashboard controls:
There are two elements to the controls. First, you may set the variety of playing cards displayed. At present, 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 proper of these show choices, you’ve the power to toggle between viewing your present settings or viewing the entire out there playing cards for a participant and his place (batting stats vs. pitching stats):
When you have “Card Settings” chosen, you may select between the completely different playing cards for every slot. The Card Settings will save a separate format for batters and pitchers. Within the drop-downs for every card slot, you may choose any of the out there playing cards for any slot you need. Clicking “Default” will reset the slot to its preliminary worth. The fourth, fifth and sixth slots can be clean, since we don’t have defaults set for them:
Under are descriptions for the dashboard playing cards we at the moment have out there.
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 fundamental data out there 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 completely different grid sizes: three graphs and 6 graphs. The three-graphs choice gives extra element, like a labeled y-axis, however the six-graph choice has extra stats out there. We hope to have extra choices out there 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 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 possibly can view the three mannequin varieties — Stuff+, Location+, and Pitching+ — for Stuff+, and Stuff, Command, and Total 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 on.). We solely show data for a participant’s present crew, so if he switched groups, his lineup tracker can be largely clean and his season abstract rely will reset.
For the sake of context, we embody the next:
- Whole crew video games: What number of video games the crew has performed.
- Obtainable crew video games: Estimated video games the place the participant was the out there for his present crew. This excludes free company, time spent enjoying for different groups, and time spent within the minors or on the IL, and so on. This means if the participant was on the lively roster and will play within the recreation.
A not too long ago acquired participant would have a excessive variety of whole crew video games, however would solely be thought of out there for the few video games he spent along with his present crew. You’d see comparable 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 out there. 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 creating this function; the playing cards may change rapidly or have options eliminated. Please tell us when you’ve got any suggestions or questions, both by leaving a remark under or emailing assist@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 exhausting to develop the preliminary idea and assist create this device. And thanks for being a FanGraphs Member. Your assist permits us to develop instruments like this!
