Stats databases

[Ceetar]

I'm tired of digging for these things when I want them, but have no idea where or if they're recorded.

So what databases do you guys use? I found one that looked slightly outdated, but ultimately I'd like to be able to download the data, and throw SQL statements at it. or at least some sort of query.

Ultimately free would be nice, but I'd certainly be willing to pay a bit for that sort of data, particularly if i could get it mostly current. This kinda access has to be out there somewhere right? That's the whole point of the 'sabermetric rebellion?'

[RealityChuck]

Do you mean the Lahman Baseball Database?

[Ceetar]

RealityChuck wrote: Do you mean the Lahman Baseball Database?

yeah, something like that. but that's only through 2009, it'd be nice to have the 2010 data.

[Guest Kong76]

What's not on baseball-reference.com that you're looking for?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Or, say, Fangraphs? (Baseball Cube's good for minors/college/winter league all in one place.)

[RealityChuck]

Ceetar wrote: RealityChuck wrote: Do you mean the Lahman Baseball Database? yeah, something like that. but that's only through 2009, it'd be nice to have the 2010 data.

They update it every year. Should be a new one out soon.

[Guest Kong76]

Why is that better than the raw data supplied by retrosheet?
(which is available now)

[Ceetar]

Kong76 wrote: Why is that better than the raw data supplied by retrosheet? (which is available now)

I think that's what I'm looking for, thanks.

you know, I just want to ask a lot of zany questions that I can't think of right now, but isn't usually listed anywhere obvious.