OT - What's the best site to do research on?

[rolemand]

Is there a way to get access to information at Elias Sports Bureau and do your own research?

Just curious after watching Twins/Sox last night and the cool stat they came up.

1st time in 100 years a starting pitcher gave up 7+ runs in the 1st inning and won the game. Pretty cool.

I thought w/ the web there must be a way an average Joe can get access to do that kind of research and other stuff that might help us handicap games.

[Willie Bee]

Don't think you can access Elias' database without paying, or unless you have media credentials from a media source that is paying.

[bigboydan]

Don't think you can access Elias' database without paying, or unless you have media credentials from a media source that is paying.

i guess you can always hack into it, but thats not a viable option for people.

[MrX]

There's almost no limit to the research you can do with the play-by-play event files available at www.retrosheet.org, but you have to do a lot of the data crunching yourself. There are also some handy command-line tools available to help parse the data files.

And it's completely FREE!

[Willie Bee]

That is an excellent site, MrX. I've been sending them and Sean over at Baseball-Reference a few dollars each year to help support 'em.

[Illusion]

Does anybody know what the price is for Elias Sports Bureau. Also, what's exact url, I'm gonna check into it.

[moses millsap]

http://www.esb.com/

[rolemand]

http://www.esb.com/

that seems to be the link but all you get there is a page on how to buy The 2006 Elias Book of Baseball Records for $19.95

If this is the best ESB can do it's pretty lame. There's not even a phone number to call them.

[pags11]

I use statfox.com, collegefootballnews.com and the forums here, at covers, therx, eog and sportsdegenerates.com...

[Willie Bee]

If this is the best ESB can do it's pretty lame. There's not even a phone number to call them.

Maybe this will help, rolemand...

Elias Sports Bureau Inc
500 5th Avenue Suite 2140
New York, NY 10110
(212) 869-1530

[Winston Smith]

I use statfox.com, collegefootballnews.com and the forums here, at covers, therx, eog and sportsdegenerates.com...

Did you read a single post in this thread?

[rolemand]

Did you read a single post in this thread?

In all fairness, I did ask about this in the title but then focused on what I thought would be the "great" solution in the body of the thread if someone knew of a way to get access to Elias' info. And all the posts then took off on Elias.

Sorry for the confusion.

So thanks Pags!

[pags11]

winston,

threads definitely take turns, but ultimately replying to the original topic is still something I consider OK...I read enough of the thread to notice you didn't contribute anything to it, whereas I did...

[tacomax]

Did you read a single post in this thread?