Help: Offensive Stats Year-By-Year

[Sabermetrician]

I am writing a paper for a class studying the material inside the baseball and the affects it may have had in the offensive output decade-by-decade. For example, in the "dead ball era" runs were at a premium compared to now. So what I'm looking for is a table displaying the runs/year and possible years where there a big jump is shown - possibly due to new material in the ball? Additionally, if someone has a site showing average BA year-by-year that would be appreciated. Also, does anyone know some good history of the baseball (possible changes) and how that could have played a role in offensive production?

 

This is just a tentative idea for a paper but what do you guys think - does it have potential? It's something I'm seriously considering doing if I can get enough evidence that the ball was at least a factor in offensive output.

[jjgman21]

I am writing a paper for a class studying the material inside the baseball and the affects it may have had in the offensive output decade-by-decade. For example, in the "dead ball era" runs were at a premium compared to now. So what I'm looking for is a table displaying the runs/year and possible years where there a big jump is shown - possibly due to new material in the ball? Additionally, if someone has a site showing average BA year-by-year that would be appreciated. Also, does anyone know some good history of the baseball (possible changes) and how that could have played a role in offensive production?

 

This is just a tentative idea for a paper but what do you guys think - does it have potential? It's something I'm seriously considering doing if I can get enough evidence that the ball was at least a factor in offensive output.

 

good ol' baseball reference.

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http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/

 

might have to table alot of the info yourself, but click on any year, gives you totals for the league, ie

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/NL_1908.shtml

[Mephistopheles]

Do that and use BABIP as well. You can also use a modified version of BABIP including HRs which would be isolating the Ks effect on stats considering the ball itself would affect HRs too.

[Sabermetrician]

http://www.nfldraftforecast.com/BGSU/2006-07/Chemistry/Baseball Paper/tentative.xls

 

There's an Excel spreadsheet...

 

I went wrong somewhere - looking at Wikipedia and expansion/contraction I thought I had it all right - yet somehow I only ended up with 15 NL teams. Any help is appreciated.