UMDB missing faces

[Zvon]

="Johnny Dickshot"]Joe Grzenda:

you have Paint Shop pro or Photoshop, Yancy?
These pics can be sharpened and seem to look better shrunk.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Photoshop. My version is a few years old, though.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Another new feature, statistics broken down by month:

http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0701&tabno=9&vMonth=ALL&vYear=2005

[Elster88]

Cornelius had a filthy June.

[seawolf17]

Not only that, but June's been his best month as a Met by far. All three years, he's been healthy and whacking the crap out of the ball.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Schaefer Mets Player of the Month.

[Frayed Knot]

]Another new feature, statistics broken down by month

Pitchers' W-L stats don't seem to be breaking out per month

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Huh! I hadn't noticed that. Thanks for pointing it out.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Fixed:

http://leaptoad.com/mets/profile.php?PlayerCode=0151&tabno=9&vMonth=ALL&vYear=1969

[Zvon]

ya know, Ive visited the UMDB for many yrs, kinda on a hit and run basis when im looking for a stat or fact. Never really just spent time there.

More recently I have, and I have to say the depth of the site is really amazing.
But you guys all know that already.
Just a nod to Yancy.
*Z tips his hat*

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, when did Wally Backman crack the top 20?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

He's been there since November 2004, when he had that Diamondbacks thing.

He's pretty close to falling off, though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess I only notice some of my guests when they show up at the party and when they leave.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Zvon wrote: ya know, Ive visited the UMDB for many yrs, kinda on a hit and run basis when im looking for a stat or fact. Never really just spent time there. More recently I have, and I have to say the depth of the site is really amazing. But you guys all know that already. Just a nod to Yancy. *Z tips his hat*

Thanks, Z! Now that the UMDB has a full set of box scores, I plan to slice and dice and present the data in a few additional ways. Stay tuned.

[Zvon]

I found a Butch Metzger.
Hes in a Met jersey, but no hat.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

I hat Metzger.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Another new feature:

Enhanced ballpark page

One thing that surprised me was who the Mets all-time Astrodome batting average champion was.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't have time to check this out, but I'm enticed by it. We know (or have a good idea of) which Cardinals and Dodgers regularly destroyed us, but instinctively it's not as clear who were the Mets all-time Giant-slayers, Cub-clubbers, Cardinal-rulers.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

This is only by ballpark. So you'll see which Mets did well at Three Rivers, but not overall against the Pirates.

That's still to come. Stay tuned.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And Phillie-busters.

[Willets Point]

Remember the Cub Busters t-shirts from 1984?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

More new stuff:

http://leaptoad.com/mets/oppteams.php?ThisTeam=08&tabno=E

http://leaptoad.com/mets/oppteams.php?ThisTeam=08&tabno=F

[Guest Edgy DC]

Darryl Strawberry, Pirate Hunter.

Yancy, you're doing a great yob. I think streamlining the features you currently have, though, is just as important as introducing new features.

For instance, when one clicks the transactions link, we get a thirty-foot page of every transaction, rather than a drop-down menu to select a year. Other chronological features come out that way also (such as game memories vs. the Pirates).

And columns on the hitting stat profiles for OBP and OPS would be very welcome.

But big applause for the revelation that the all time Phillie-Buster was... Wally Freaking Backman!

[Zvon]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: More new stuff: http://leaptoad.com/mets/oppteams.php?ThisTeam=08&tabno=E http://leaptoad.com/mets/oppteams.php?ThisTeam=08&tabno=F

that is fanominal stuff Yancy!

Clendenon legged out 10 triples against the Mets?!
Who knew?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Here's a list of the website that have referred the most traffic to the UMDB in January. Some familiar sites, and some that I'm not so familiar with. I haven't checked them out yet, but I thought I'd share them here. Maybe there's some undiscovered gem of a site out there.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Edgy DC wrote: Yancy, you're doing a great yob. I think streamlining the features you currently have, though, is just as important as introducing new features. For instance, when one clicks the transactions link, we get a thirty-foot page of every transaction, rather than a drop-down menu to select a year. Other chronological features come out that way also (such as game memories vs. the Pirates). And columns on the hitting stat profiles for OBP and OPS would be very welcome.

I'd love to do OBP, but getting all of the components of OBP during the season has been problematical. If I can figure out a way to do it that doesn't involve investing a lot of my time, I would like to add it. (And then OPS would easily follow.)

I have been gradually making the site less "vertical." Before the addition of the blue tabs on various pages, all the information was presented on one long page, from top to bottom. That will probably continue. Doing that on the transactions page, though, would simply replicate what's on the various pages for the individual seasons. (You can see all 1985 transactions on the Transactions tab of the 1985 page, for example.) Maybe the big long page with the 900+ transactions has outlived its usefulness. I'll have to think about that one.

You're right about the game memories page; maybe I'll split that into decades if not seasons. If someone were to print out all Pirates game memories, it would be 47 sheets of paper! That's a page that's definitely too vertical.

[Zvon]

I dont know if you picked these up yet thru the thread or not, but they were on the pg1 list.
I have old backup CDs from my old PC with many Met images, and I found these on one of those.
Scans from the 2000 yeabook, i think.

Velandia

Cammack


(i dont mean to be a noodge but if your list was in alphabetical order it would be much easier and faster to reference)

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It's in order of lookup popularity. The theory is that the guys who are looked up more frequently are in greater need of a mug shot.

[Zvon]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: It's in order of lookup popularity. The theory is that the guys who are looked up more frequently are in greater need of a mug shot.

I hear ya.
Its just whenever I find a pic I have to go thru the whole list to see if you need it.
No biggy tho.
What Ill do is go straight to the site, look em up, and see if they have a pic.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

The whitest of all whales is still "The Other" Bob Gibson

As I said in my fan memory comment on the site, when the Mets did their "Every Met To Play In A Game" card set in 1991, they had a card of everyone, except for Bob Gibson. Why? Because the fellow on the card was in fact the 1981 pitching coach, the HOFer, Bob Gibson!

TOBG had a pretty mediocre run in Milwaukee though and wound up on a number of early 80's cards as a Brewer so he is not "cardless" though

Even most other "count the number of games played on one handers" can be found through various means, but Gibson didn't even stay in the organization long enough to be snapped for a media guide/yearbook photo!

You find TOBG and I'm sure Yancy will be forever in your debt!