Version 2.2.7

Some FanGraphs bugs were fixed in 2.2.6.

What's Changed

• Add PitchingBot and Stuff+ stats to FG enum by @malerichc in #342
• Added plot_strike_zone to plotting.py by @nicholson2208 in #353

New Contributors

• @malerichc made their first contribution in #342
• @nicholson2208 made their first contribution in #353

And the 2.2.6 version notes:

What's Changed

• Add Negro Leagues To FangraphsLeague by @nwinston in #334
• Added docstrings to any undocumented public-facing functions by @erin2722 in #340
• added plot_teams function to plot all team's stats for a season(s) by @JackMentch in #351
• Updating FanGraphs leaderboard URL by @corleymj in #377

New Contributors

• @nwinston made their first contribution in #334
• @erin2722 made their first contribution in #340
• @JackMentch made their first contribution in #351
• @corleymj made their first contribution in #377

Full Changelog: 2.2.5...2.2.7

Version 2.2.6

Some new features, and fixing the FanGraphs leaderboard URL.

What's Changed

• Add Negro Leagues To FangraphsLeague by @nwinston in #334
• Added docstrings to any undocumented public-facing functions by @erin2722 in #340
• added plot_teams function to plot all team's stats for a season(s) by @JackMentch in #351
• Updating FanGraphs leaderboard URL by @corleymj in #377

New Contributors

• @nwinston made their first contribution in #334
• @erin2722 made their first contribution in #340
• @JackMentch made their first contribution in #351
• @corleymj made their first contribution in #377

Full Changelog: 2.2.5...2.2.6

Version 2.2.5

What's Changed

• Feat: Update "OOA Behind Pitcher" function by @zach-hopkins in #299
• README rewrite by @tjburch in #297
• Add 3.10 and 3.11 and remove 3.6 and 3.7 from test versions by @schorrm in #296
• Revert "Add 3.10 and 3.11 and remove 3.6 and 3.7 from test versions" by @schorrm in #313
• Dropping Python 3.6 from python-versions by @BrayanMnz in #311
• Update python versions + add bref session + various test, bug, and typing fixes by @TheCleric in #318
• update chadwick register access by @bdilday in #309
• Rewrite contributing.md by @tjburch in #300
• Change assumed end of season date from November 1 to November 30 by @TK2575 in #323
• Issue 284 top prospects not working. by @bryanpeabody in #307
• Add version method by @tjburch in #320

New Contributors

• @zach-hopkins made their first contribution in #299
• @BrayanMnz made their first contribution in #311
• @TK2575 made their first contribution in #323
• @bryanpeabody made their first contribution in #307

Full Changelog: 2.2.4...2.2.5

2.2.4

What's Changed

• Sanitize whitespace in column names from statcast calls by @tjburch in #280
• Use columns keyword rather than no-keyword axis for drop in team_results by @tjburch in #282

(We're mainly just doing this to try and fix our pypi)

Full Changelog: 2.2.3...2.2.4

Version 2.2.3

What's Changed

• Add axis keyword to df.drop call by @tjburch in #243
• Add troubleshooting to readme by @tjburch in #247
• Update test configuration + tests by @TheCleric in #252
• Update lahman for changes to directory structure by @MichaelGFagan in #251
• Bug fix for statcast_batter by @akern40 in #256
• Rename teams to teams_core by @tjburch in #263
• Fixed issue in get_player_info() by @trogers19 in #265
• Account for new FG columns + fix lahman + fix some typing issues by @TheCleric in #266
• Add mlbID to return table of batting_stats_range by @tjburch in #264
• Use objects qualified name in caching by @bdilday in #269

New Contributors

• @MichaelGFagan made their first contribution in #251
• @akern40 made their first contribution in #256
• @trogers19 made their first contribution in #265

Full Changelog: 2.2.2...2.2.3

Version 2.2.2

What's Changed

• Update description of qual argument in batting and pitching stats documentation by @johnclary in #213
• Adapt for BR now supporting Negro Leagues by @TheCleric in #215
• bref parsing test by @bdilday in #220
• bugfix for truncated batting range data by @bdilday in #223
• Scrape MLB IDs from Baseball-Reference by @marek-slipski in #222
• Test Fix: Accept 36 or 37 to account for the Astros forfeiting a pick by @schorrm in #226
• spraychart scales by @bdilday in #227
• Fix import statements in statcast docs by @wfordh in #228
• Add function for getting amateur draft by team by @prs-watch in #230
• Change statcast pool from process to thread; fix TypeError by @TheCleric in #231
• Add a matrix to test on all python versions by @TheCleric in #232
• Add check on result length before adding to cache by @tjburch in #235
• Fix logic for determining if team is Home or Away for team game logs by @jzuhusky in #237

New Contributors

• @johnclary made their first contribution in #213
• @marek-slipski made their first contribution in #222
• @prs-watch made their first contribution in #230
• @jzuhusky made their first contribution in #237

Full Changelog: 2.2.1...2.2.2

Version 2.2.1

2.2.1 Release: April 27th, 2021

• Statcast Fielding & Running leaderboards -- @wfordh

• Improved logger setup -- @Maradonna90

• Various bugfixes -- @TheCleric, @bdilday, @schorrm, @latonis

• Make Statcast parallelization optional -- @reddigari

Version 2.2.0: Faster Statcast, more Statcast, and eliminate dependencies

What's new:

• We removed some fairly unnecessary dependencies that were causing a massive amount of dependency bloat -- @TheCleric and @bdilday.

• Cleaning up and parallelizing Statcast calls -- @TheCleric, @bdilday, and @schorrm

• Statcast spin rate & spin direction -- @tpoatsy3, see docs/statcast_pitcher_spin.md for more info.

• Statcast Batter & Pitcher leaderboards -- @wfordh

• Various test fixes -- @TheCleric

• Spell-check to playerid lookup -- @tjburch and @mwisnie5

• Plotting bugfix -- @andersonfrailey

• Marcels Example -- @andersonfrailey

Statcast Hotfix

Hotfix - rollback a perf regression in 2.1.0 statcast

Version 2.1.0: Caching, and much more

We have a lot of new stuff in this release.

• Caching

  • We now cache most of the time expensive scraping functions. In addition, we have a consistent storage location for the Lahman Databank, so no more five copies of baseball-databank. This is currently disabled by default, you can enable it (see caching in the docs).
  • Basically, now when you call something like batting_stats(2018), for a while subsequent calls will just hit the cache, if it is enabled, so you don't need to do a bunch of pd.load and df.to_csv all over your notebooks.
  • Right now this is a week by default, which is configurable in code, and will probably change soon to more specific per-function staleness. @TheCleric, @schorrm

• FanGraphs fielding - @TheCleric

• Massively expanded options for FanGraphs scraping - @TheCleric

• Marcel projections - @bdilday

• Batted ball trajectories - @bdilday

• Baseball Reference splits - @mwisnie5

• Add spray angle to statcast dataframes - @tjburch

• Flag imputed data (where Trackman didn't do it, stringers did) in statcast batting - @tjburch

  • See this piece in The Hardball Times for more info.

• Plot batted ball profile - @tjburch

• Improvements to data type inference - @TheCleric

• Unit testing, by @TheCleric

• And various bugfixes, with thanks to @bdilday, @bgunn34, and @TheCleric.