| yearID | HR | MaxOfYr# | Dif | Pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 110 | 95 | 15 | 13.64% |
| 1926 | 121 | 96 | 25 | 20.66% |
| 1927 | 158 | 158 | 0 | .00% |
| 1928 | 133 | 119 | 14 | 10.53% |
| 1929 | 142 | 114 | 28 | 19.72% |
| 1930 | 152 | 130 | 22 | 14.47% |
| 1931 | 155 | 127 | 28 | 18.06% |
| 1932 | 160 | 134 | 26 | 16.25% |
| 1933 | 144 | 117 | 27 | 18.75% |
| 1934 | 135 | 101 | 34 | 25.19% |
| 1935 | 104 | 76 | 28 | 26.92% |
| 1936 | 182 | 156 | 26 | 14.29% |
| 1937 | 174 | 167 | 7 | 4.02% |
| 1938 | 174 | 166 | 8 | 4.60% |
| 1939 | 166 | 156 | 10 | 6.02% |
| 1940 | 155 | 141 | 14 | 9.03% |
| 1941 | 151 | 151 | 0 | .00% |
| 1942 | 108 | 108 | 0 | .00% |
| 1943 | 100 | 99 | 1 | 1.00% |
| 1944 | 96 | 82 | 14 | 14.58% |
| 1945 | 93 | 74 | 19 | 20.43% |
| 1946 | 136 | 122 | 14 | 10.29% |
| 1947 | 115 | 112 | 3 | 2.61% |
| 1948 | 139 | 134 | 5 | 3.60% |
| 1949 | 115 | 112 | 3 | 2.61% |
| 1950 | 159 | 144 | 15 | 9.43% |
| 1951 | 140 | 136 | 4 | 2.86% |
| 1952 | 129 | 109 | 20 | 15.50% |
| 1953 | 139 | 131 | 8 | 5.76% |
| 1954 | 133 | 131 | 2 | 1.50% |
The problem documented in recent posts for the individual event finder, which does not use the Home Run Log, also happens with the team event finder, which starts with the 1925 season.
Baseball Reference: suggestions for improvement. Thursday, July 4, 2019
Baseball Reference is my favorite website. I have subscribed to it for many years. However, ...
I use Google Sheets, an online spreadsheet, and Microsoft Access, a database management system (DBMS) because there is no DBMS that runs native on a Chromebook...
... recently found inconsistency in how baseball-reference.com presents data. I looked at home run data for Joe DiMaggio and the 1936 Yankees, his rookie season:
- individual's home run log
- event finder for that same individual
- all team home runs in a season; this in posting about the Yankee record of its players hitting a home run in consecutive games...
Field names are not consistent:
#car Cr#
#yr Yr#
#gm Gm#
If you run the team event finder for home runs for multiple years the year number (Yr#) continues through all the years, it does not start over at 1 for the first home run of the next year.
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Joe DiMaggio, 26 home runs (361-335) have left and gone away. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Monday, July 15, 2019
In case you didn't notice, one of Joe DiMaggio's missing home runs is the second one he ever hit in the big leagues. Cruise back up to the event finder and you will see that the homer off Schoolboy Rowe is missing. Down below that in the Home Run Log, the Schoolboy's gopher ball is documented, although not fully and that's the issue. That bit of baseball data is derived and baseball-reference.com doesn't like derived data.
You can descend into the minutia of Retrosheet derived data by clicking the links in the black backgrounds above.
baseball-reference.com has much more data than it displays. The Home Run data is the most prominent example but it applies to all types of plate appearances.
At the very least when presenting home run data baseball-reference.com could use the Home Run Log but it doesn't, consistency being a hobgoblin of minds, both little and great.
How can we users resolve? Not easily, not easily.
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Joe DiMaggio is missing data. Joe DiMaggio. But so are most Yankees 1925-1954. Argh.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
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