Category: Baseball
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Getting Insight from Data: Baseball
Big Data is cited by many prognosticators as a major growth area in computer science over the next decade. While definitions of Big Data abound, the basic idea is that data is being collected as such a rate and with such volume now that traditional ways of saving and analyzing it no longer suffice. (Neal…
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Groovy StubFor magic
I finished revising the testing chapter in Making Java Groovy (the MEAP should be updated this week), but before I leave it entirely, I want to mention a Groovy capability that is both cool and easy to use. Cool isn’t the right word, actually. I have to say that even after years of working with…
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Live blogging World Series Game 4: Yankees/Phillies
11:48 pm: It’s over. The Yankees win 7-4, as the Phillies hit three balls to Mark Teixeira, the best fielder the Yankees have. Cliff Lee now has to save the Phillies season. Even if he does, though, it’s hard to imagine the Phillies beating the Yankees three straight times. That just doesn’t happen in the…
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Dragons roar, cough, and sputter in Dayton
Tim Kurkjian says you should never miss the chance to go to a ballgame, because you might see something you’ve never seen before. On Tuesday I got the chance to go to see the Dayton Dragons play in their charming stadium, Fifth Third Field (seriously, that’s the name) in downtown Dayton, Ohio. (I’m here this…
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Never miss a ballgame
As Tim Kurkjian famously said, “Never miss the opportunity to go to a baseball game. You might see something you’ve never seen before.” This week I’m in Asheville, NC. I’m very busy with my Securing Java Web Applications class while other issues keep coming up, but the bottom line is that the Asheville Tourists (the…
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Minor league baseball rocks
I’ve been traveling a lot lately. Fortunately, this is baseball season, so sometimes I get a chance to visit a park I’ve never been to before. Last week I was in Allentown, PA. Actually, that’s not quite true — I was actually in Schnecksville, PA, a small suburb of Allentown. It turns out that this…
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MLB playoffs from a TV Networks perspective
When the playoffs began, there was a chance that the championship series would have involved teams from [Note: TV market size in square brackets] New York (could even have had two teams) [1] Los Angeles (more or less) [2] Chicago [3] Philadelphia [4] It turned out that the cities actually involved are Boston [7] Cleveland…
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Baseball playoffs start (yay!)
I know, I know. The Rockies – Padres game wasn’t technically in the playoffs. The stats counted as regular season stats, which meant the batting title was still at risk and Jake Peavy had a chance to win his 20th game (which, of course, didn’t happen). But still, that was some game. Some quick observations:…
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Groovier Box Scores
I made a couple more fixes to my box scores script to make it a bit groovier. First is a trivial one, but it’s much more in the Groovy idiom than in Java. I replaced def cal = Calendar.getInstance() with def cal = Calendar.instance Groovy automatically uses the getter if you access a property of…