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Weeeeellll - that was a heck of a post.  Wow.  Didn't know it was that intensive and long a road.  Guess I need to reconsider some things...

How about an Isolated Power Add-In?  There are all sorts of simple sabermetric add-ins that could be done.  One thing I remember about FPS Baseball that I loved so much is that you could choose various stat columns to have displayed (which I suggested for 2008) and many of them were not just standard stats, but sabermetric ones, too.  RC, Iso, all that.  Very cool.

I like Iso because it really reveals the sluggers.

ORIGINAL: SittingDuck

Weeeeellll - that was a heck of a post.  Wow.  Didn't know it was that intensive and long a road.  Guess I need to reconsider some things...

You gave up that easy? [;)]

Isolated power is (ISO = Slugging % - Batting Average) ? Thats it? thats pretty easy. Would look alot nicer as an additional tab on the player card. I can make a addin with that. Maybe theres some other easy stats like that I could add to the addin. 1 stat isnt so interesting.

Yes, a few classic sabermetric stats would be good. One add-in for pitchers, one for hitters, I guess.

I would love to see more complex sabermetric stats that take into account park factors and league averages like OPS+, ERA+.  Since I play in Forbes Field, I know that my players slugging stats will be lower than average, but it would be great to be able to quantify it.
 
How hard are those formulas?   Could I build them in Access with the export data function?

ORIGINAL: henry296

I would love to see more complex sabermetric stats that take into account park factors and league averages like OPS+, ERA+.  Since I play in Forbes Field, I know that my players slugging stats will be lower than average, but it would be great to be able to quantify it.

How hard are those formulas?   Could I build them in Access with the export data function?

Absolutely. I havnt seen the export, but if you can get the same data thats available to the addins, you can build a query to do almost anything.

In addition to programming, you seem to know access well.  I have a database, (not related to PSB, created by someone else with a compressed field.  How do you read this type field.  I have a book and have read the help files and searched the internet and have found no instructions for doing this.

Is it a text, memo, or hyperlink field? If so maybe its "unicode compression". Not a whole lot of experience with it.

Make a backup first -->Maybe in the table, goto table design, and see if you can change the data type for that column (field). It might just convert it back.

Why was it compressed? Do you need it compressed?

I think it was compressed due to its size, but I reallu do not know. I believe it is a text file.