Important programming notes
- I have released a new project, baseball.computer, which is designed as the successor to boxball. It is much easier to use (no Docker required, runs entirely in your browser/program) and includes many more tables, features, and quality controls. The event schema is different, which will be the main migration pain point in migration. I aim to continue Boxball maintenence and updates as long as people are still using it, and I may try to rebase boxball on top of the new project to make maintaining both easier. Please let me know if there are things you can do in Boxball that you can't do yet in baseball.computer by filing an issue on the repo or reaching me at [email protected].
- The latest baseballdatabank data is still 2022. I will try to run another update once that is complete.
- Retrosheet's new game-type info field is not yet in the database. I will also try to update once v0.11.0 of Chadwick, which adds this data, is officially released. (baseball.computer has 2023 season summary data and several game-type classifiers).
This release uses Retrosheet's December 2023 release, with 2023 season data and new 1910s PBP seasons.
Other misc. updates
- Retrosheet data now based on the structure from the official site
- Workaround for sourcing Lahman database
- Increase varchar max sizes for more resilience to data changes
- Misc. package/image updates