ORIGINAL EC2019 INFO - DATA GATHERED FROM OFFICIAL BOX SCORES

ORIGINAL: 2019 European Baseball Championship in Bonn and Solingen, Germany

MODIFIED EC2019 INFO - DATA MODIFICATIONS MADE FROM GAME VIDEO

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Notable changes:
1) Corrected original assumptions (see below) on batted ball types, hit locations and strength using actual game video;
2) Modified pitch results to differentiate for attempted bunts (bunt fouls and missed bunts);
3) Added info on pickoff attempts and runners trying to steal;
4) Fixed pitch outcomes when necessary;
5) Filled in pitch-by-pitch info for unfinished plate appearances when the third out is made on the bases;
6) A few corrections to official scorers' batted ball directions and out types when necessary (see NOTES.TXT);
7) A couple of corrections to official scoring when absolutely necessary (see NOTES.TXT);
8) Edited player names, batter and pitcher handedness.

FILE DOWNLOADS

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

EC2019_MODIFIED_TABLES_20220812.ZIP

EC2019_MODIFIED_TABLES_20211022.ZIP

EC2019_MODIFIED_TABLES_20210831.ZIP


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

NOTES_20211022.TXT

NOTES.TXT

CURRENT STATUS (as of August 12th, 2022)

August 12th update: added game 34 - 09/13 Solingen Sweden 2-12 Great Britain

44 OF 47 GAMES INCLUDED

32 GAMES PROCESSED FROM FULL VIDEO 

FROM HIGHLIGHTS ONLY (11 GAMES)
03	09/07	Solingen	ISR	6-1	 CZE
05	09/07	Solingen	NED	10-2	 GBR
11	09/08	Solingen	CRO	1-2	 ITA
20	09/10	Solingen	ISR	7-4	 GBR
23	09/10	Solingen	SWE	3-10	 CZE
26	09/11	Solingen	ESP	19-1	 AUT
27	09/11	Bonn 2		GBR	13-7	 SWE
29	09/11	Solingen	CRO	0-23	 FRA
34	09/13	Solingen	SWE	2-12	 GBR
37	09/13	Solingen	CZE	4-5	 ESP
45	09/15	Solingen	GBR	11-9	 AUT

PARTIALLY FROM HIGHLIGHTS (1 GAME)
08	09/08	Solingen	SWE	3-4	 ISR

NO VIDEO AVAILABLE (3 GAMES) - NOT PROCESSED
14	09/09	Solingen	GBR	4-3	 CZE
17	09/09	Solingen	FRA	3-6	 ESP
40	09/14	Solingen	GBR	5-1	 CRO

  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).