ORIGINAL EC2016 INFO - DATA GATHERED FROM OFFICIAL BOX SCORES

SCORING CORRECTIONS

Game 07 - September 10   Russia 1-8 Sweden
Scoring correction (top of the 5th):
2B Joel Johnson (SWE) - minus 1 PO (only 2 instead of 3)
C Leonard Baeckstroem (SWE) - plus 1 PO (7 instead of 6)
(the discrepancy only appeared in an HTML game report and was fixed in the final PDF report!)


Game 14 - September 11   Sweden 1-6 Czechia
Manual edit (bottom of the 1st):
E5/G5.3-H;2-3
->
E5/G5?.3-H;2-3
somewhat arguable scoring decision on a run scored by SCHNEIDER: "earned";
(noting this just to make sure it was done on purpose and was not an oversight)

Also, edited player names, batter and pitcher handedness (see Notes)

Apart from somewhat inconsistent handling of pinch-hitters and pinch-runners for designated hitter (see Notes) the overall quality of scoring seemed to be very good (as far as a formal review of play-by-play data might tell)

FILE DOWNLOADS

Comma-delimited text files in standard Retrosheet format (BEVENT.TXT, BGAME.TXT, PLAYERS.TXT)

ec2016_tables_20221029.ZIP

ec2016_tables_20221027.ZIP


Notes - a list of various changes and corrections of the original game data

notes_20221027.txt

CURRENT STATUS (as of October 27th, 2022)

October 27th, 2022 update: downloadable CSV files and Notes

Created in April 2017

  An attempt to gather additional data and uncover new information for European Championship tournaments. The two biggest things being aggregation of pitch-by-pitch results to gauge hitter and pitcher effectiveness and putting together the very spotty data on batted balls’ types to make at least some guesses on quality of fielders, team defenses, and batter’s and pitcher’s contributions.

Data limitations and additional details

Due to limitations of the software used at CEB tournaments (TAS Baseball) and outright omission of some very important data while scoring games as well, the official source is far from perfect. So we have to make the most sense out of what is available.
Notably:
1) Pitch-by-pitch results data – balls, fouls, etc. – doesn’t differentiate for bunt attempts. Hence, bunts and non-bunts have to be bundled together.
2) Original HTML game logs do not contain pitch-by-pitch information for unfinished plate appearances when the third out is made on the bases, so overall pitch totals are going to be slightly off
3) No data on batted ball’s types (grounder, liner, fly, etc.), hit direction and strength being kept – meaning no data on batted balls resulting in base hits, which is a huge omission - except for very generic descriptions of base hits like a “single through the left side” or a “single to left field”, etc.
The main goal here is to just try and divide all hits into two groups: groundballs and airballs. Unfortunately, there’s no way to differentiate between line drive hits and fly ball hits – hence, only airballs or non-grounders. Depending on available descriptions of base hits, the following assumptions are made:
a) infield hits and hits “through the infield” are designated as grounders;
b) singles and doubles “down the lf and rf foul lines” are also counted as grounders (big assumption);
c) all base hits “to the outfield” are considered as airballs and scored as flyballs (they could’ve been marked as line drives just as well).