v2024.0.0

Important programming notes

• I have released a new project, baseball.computer, which is designed as the successor to boxball. It is much easier to use (no Docker required, runs entirely in your browser/program) and includes many more tables, features, and quality controls. The event schema is different, which will be the main migration pain point in migration. I aim to continue Boxball maintenence and updates as long as people are still using it, and I may try to rebase boxball on top of the new project to make maintaining both easier. Please let me know if there are things you can do in Boxball that you can't do yet in baseball.computer by filing an issue on the repo or reaching me at [email protected].
• The latest baseballdatabank data is still 2022. I will try to run another update once that is complete.
• Retrosheet's new game-type info field is not yet in the database. I will also try to update once v0.11.0 of Chadwick, which adds this data, is officially released. (baseball.computer has 2023 season summary data and several game-type classifiers).

This release uses Retrosheet's December 2023 release, with 2023 season data and new 1910s PBP seasons.
Other misc. updates

• Retrosheet data now based on the structure from the official site
• Workaround for sourcing Lahman database
• Increase varchar max sizes for more resilience to data changes
• Misc. package/image updates

v2023.0.0

Updated with the end-of-year 2022 release from Retrosheet.

Full Changelog: v2022.0.0...v2023.0.0

v2022.0.0

Data updated with the 2021 season (as well as a handful of Negro League games!)

v2021.0.0

Includes 2020 season data and a few database upgrades.

v2020.2.0

Retrosheet June 2020 release

v2020.1.1

• Fixed bug in Daily table where accounts with both box scores and PBP were duplicated.
• Improved performance of SQLite build.
• Added DeducedGame table to keep track of which PBP accounts were deduced.

v2020.0.1

Resolves some PK issues on the BD schema, assorted varchar issues, and fixes some Retrosheet data through a fork.

Boxball 2020.0.0

Data updated with the 2019 MLB season, along with additional historical data from Retrosheet.

Boxball 0.0.2

First production release -- 6 DBs and 2 flat file formats.

Initial working version

• CSV build powers Postgres, Postgres_cstore_fdw, MySQL, and SQLite
• Known issues:
  • SQLite build has blank strings instead of nulls