Hideo Nomo Has a Posse

In a post a few months ago I put up some code to spider the Retrosheet site, download game data, and build a database out of event & game data. A reader responded a week ago or so recommending an update for the code to work with the newer (0.5.2) version of Chadwick as well as suggesting I put the code out on github so it can be worked on collaboratively. I’m all for it, so I went ahead and signed up and made the project publicly available.

The project is located here. Dude who recommended this all to me made a branch and submitted a patch (pardon, git folks, if patch isn’t really the word, I’m still firmly planted in the Subversion universe), which I then applied to the master project.

DO FEEL FREE to fork and work on the thing – I’d love to see whatever you might make of it. In my spare time as of late I’ve been building a python library which pulls data from MLB.com for the current season (which, sadly, is all but over) and provides nice abstractions for working with it. I’ll pit it up on github when it’s ready to be roundly criticized publicized. ¶