Comments on: MLB

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:47:17 +0000

Okay, I feel pretty embarrassed about this since I consider myself a computer geek…but when I save the csv files for ballscore it will not allow me to save them as ros files. I rename the file to an ros extension and it still lists it as a csv file. I really want to try this software, but this issue has me running around in circles. How can I properly import the csv files into BallScore?

By: 6-4-3 | eCache

6-4-3 | eCache — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:10:41 +0000

[...] bigger pain. Being able to import a roster to the cellphone would be most welcomed. Ben collates the MLB rosters daily on his Pitch-By-Pitch site. I don’t know how 6-4-3 handles the roster, but being able to [...]

By: admin

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:06:03 +0000

Sure… I added them today.

Enjoy!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:47:01 +0000

Great stuff. Thanks for the rosters.

Any chance you will be able to produce rosters for the Arizona Fall League teams?

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/events/winterleagues/?league=afl

Thanks,
Peter

By: Robert B

Robert B — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:12:53 +0000

I’d love to learn how I can set something up where I can automatically generate either CSV or ROS files. Unfortunately I’m not much of a programmer, so I’d need some sort of step-by-step process.
I think this site has done a great job in opening up possibilities to run procedures and stuff with retrosheet-style event logs. Would love to learn more!

Robert

By: Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:36:41 +0000

Oops, i meant to say i stopped using CSV for FixedIt.

By: Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:35:02 +0000

Hello Ben,

I haven’t visited your site for some time, but wow, what an improvement, looks great!

I still have my program that reads http://hosted.stats.com/mlb/teams.asp and generates KSS (XML format used by KForCE [http://www.rakonza.com] and CSV formats. I gave up on generated ROS files long ago because i stopped using FixedIt because of their non-existent support (although i still can — i believe you gave me a utility to aid in doing so).

Again, great job!

Richard Thomas

By: Robert B

Robert B — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:38:15 +0000

Just a curious question…

If I find I need to add a player to a team’s ROS file (i.e. TOR2009.ROS to add Randy Ruiz), When I open the ROS file in notepad, I noticed there are no spaces or line breaks between records, but when I open it in Word, there are. Is that a special character between records?

Thanks as always,
Rob

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:43:03 +0000

The most ideal way would be to download the season roster file for these two teams. You can get it from http://www.retrosheet.org/game.htm.

Another way (if you’re just interested in just creating a scoresheet and box score and not analyzing this game with other games), is to manually type each player into the Home and Away tabs of the scoresheet. Put a random unique ID in column A, Last name in column B, first name in column C, and the player’s full name in Column H. Everything should process fine.

Let me know how it works!
Ben

By: Harrison L

Harrison L — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:47:24 +0000

I found an old scorecard from a couple of years ago and wanted to put it in the scoresheet on the computer. However, some of the players are free agents now and the current rosters won’t work for this. How can I figure out or create codes for older players.