Game Central's Twelfth Anniversary

K. Fields
2018-05-25T19:56:11-04:00
General, Baseball

Today is the twelfth anniversary of Game Central. As with every other year, I have added new content to mark the occasion. It is also the 20th anniversary of the last season of the STBL (Southern Tier Baseball League). Therefore, I decided to do a massive STBL stats update. Previously, only 3 out of 17 seasons were represented on the site. I added data for the first 14 seasons and results for all 17 World Series. This was much more difficult than I anticipated. The last six seasons were played in Earl Weaver Baseball II, which had decent reporting capabilities. I was able to export reports to disk. The 1989 Spring season was an outlier, having been played in Earl Weaver Baseball 1.5. That is why that season’s presentation is a bit different. Unfortunately, ten out of the first eleven seasons were played in the original version of Earl Weaver Baseball. It did not support exporting stats to disk. Even using the screen reports didn’t help much. For example, the team batting reports were missing a lot of key stats; they only showed batting averages, home runs, and RBIs. That meant I had to review each season player by player and manually enter the data into my html pages. So much data! Typing in tens of thousands of stats by hand took over a week and was extremely fatiguing. I didn’t bother to make the presentation pretty. The pages look pretty much the way they did back in 1998. At least the league’s history is finally preserved. The most recent seasons, in particular, are well documented. They even contain box scores for the World Series.