From: wall@cc.swarthmore.edu (Matthew Wall)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Downloading stats
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:16:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: cc.K9KHB1L5
Distribution: na
Organization: CC

In article <16582@plains.NoDak.edu>, ljensen@plains.NoDak.edu (Lars Jensen) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know of places to download baseball stats from on a weekly basis?
> Thanks in advance.
> 

You can pay for downloading stats from many on-line services (USA Today, CompuServe, etc.)

OR, you can do 20 minutes of work once every two weeks and have them emailed to you...
by joining the INTERNET BASEBALL STATISTICS COOPERATIVE. 

We still have room for two more people in the Stats Cooperative, and will take names on
a waiting list in case people drop out.

Please see my original posting below.

- matt


The Internet Baseball Statistics Cooperative


This is a cooperative, private non-commercial venture to share the 
burden of entering weekly baseball stats from newspaper sources into 
electronic format appropriate for use in Rotisserie leagues and other 
Sabrmetric endeavours.


The Co-op is in its inaugural year in 1992. By nature it's experimental.


Each member is assigned 4 major league teams in either the national or 
american leagues. The member is responsible for entering in the complete 
USA TODAY stats line for all players and pitchers listed into machine 
readable text in an agreed-upon format and for forwarding the stats to 
the rest of the cooperative's members no later than NOON Thursday Pacific 
Time (3 p.m. Eastern) every TWO weeks.


Each member has a "Stats Buddy" who also enters the same 4 major league teams' 
stats in alternating weeks. Part of the duties of the cooperative include 
making sure your buddy does his or her stats in the alternate weeks and 
providing substitute service in weeks when your buddy can't enter the stats 
(away on vacation, etc.)


Stats are automatically forwarded on to all members of the cooperative as 
they are recieved at the network redistribution point.


Teams are ASSIGNED to each cooperative member, but are all from one league 
or the other (AL or NL.) Preferences for leagues are acceptable, but the brain trust of the 
cooperative cannot always meet those preferences. Due to the amount of work 
involved, we don't entertain requests for individual teams.


Because there will likely always be a number of Co-op members unequal to an even 
multiple of the number of major league teams, some teams' stats will be double-
entered. This serves as a backup in case a member fails to enter the stats one week, 
and as a double-check on the accuracy of the data entry. If the volume of steady 
contributors warrants it, the "workload" of each member will be reduced appropriately.


Members who fail to contribute their stats twice during a season without reasonable 
explanation will be removed from the redistribution list by the brain trust.


For more information on the cooperative, contact the brain trust - either

Darryl Gamble (darryl@cs.yorku.ca)

or

Matt Wall (wall@cc.swarthmore.edu)


If you wish to join the cooperative, please send mail to Matt Wall at the address above 
with the subject line "NEW COOP MEMBER". Include your full name and email 
address in the body of the message, and preference (if any) for which major league 
you'd like to enter stats for.
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