FanGraphs.com is a website run by Fangraphs Inc., located in Arlington, Virginia, and created and owned by David Appelman that provides statistics for every player in Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...

 history.
The website, among other things, plots the course of every game, showing which hits and outs changed outcomes.

All major league baseball data on the website, including pitch type, velocity, batted ball location, and play-by-play data, are provided by Baseball Info Solutions. Minor league

Minor league

Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in...

 baseball data is provided by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, and distributed by STATS LLC. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, and Run Expectancy data are licensed from InsideTheBook.com. All Ultimate zone rating

Ultimate zone rating

Ultimate zone rating is a sabermetric statistic used to measure fielding. It compares the event that actually happened to data on similarly hit balls in the past to determine how much better or worse the fielder did than the "average" player...

 (UZR) calculations are provided by Mitchel Lichtman. Retrosheet.org play-by-play data prior to 2002 was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by Retrosheet

Retrosheet

Retrosheet is a non-profit organization whose website features major league baseball box scores and play-by-play narratives for almost every contest from 1871–1872, 1874, 1911 NL, and 1918–2010...

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On September 18, 2009, Fangraphs Inc. launched an iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

 app in partnership with Hawk Ridge Consulting. Fangraphs has a number of content partners including ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

, SB Nation

SB Nation

SB Nation is a sports network owned and operated by Vox Media with more than 300 separate web sites maintained primarily by part-time contract writers. They put together posts, facilitate dialogue and interact with commenters. At a kickoff event in February 2009, there were about 185 blogs...

 and Fanhouse

FanHouse

FanHouse is a sports website owned by AOL. Launched in September 2006, FanHouse is considered the Internet's most linked sports blog by aggregator BallHype, won Editor & Publisher's 2008 EPpy Award for "Best Sports Blog", and was named as a finalist for the award in 2009.In January 2009, FanHouse...

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Web Sites

• The FanGraphs homepage FanGraphs.com, which contains articles, statistical reports and also covers baseball history as well as current issues and events, including games and series, injuries, forecasts, player profiles, baseball finance, and the player marketplace.

• RotoGraphs
  RotoGraphs
  RotoGraphs is a website run by Fangraphs Inc., created and owned by David Appelman. RotoGraphs provides fantasy baseball advice and analysis in tandem with FanGraphs and originally featured David Golebiewski of ESPN Inside Edge, Marc Hulet, Brian Joura of newyorkmetsdaily.com, and Peter Bendix.As...
  
   is Fangraphs's fantasy baseball advice and analysis section. It originally featured David Golebiewski of ESPN Inside Edge, Marc Hulet, Brian Joura of newyorkmetsdaily.com, and Peter Bendix.

• NotGraphs provides "a place to put things that would otherwise not have a place on FanGraphs."

• The Community Blog is an opportunity for readers to share their writing through FanGraphs. In May 2010 an editorial staff was put in place to guarantee an "approval process" within 48 hours of submission.

• The FanGraphs Library is an encyclopedia of Sabermetric statistics and principles run by Steve Slowinski.

Publishing

• FanGraphs releases an annual book The FanGraphs Second Opinion: Fantasy Companion that contains statistics and analysis of the past season, in-depth player profiles, team previews, articles on fantasy strategy and forecasts of the upcoming season.

Radio show

• Hosted by FanGraphs editor Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli is an American poet, essayist and English professor. His works of poetry include Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Assorted Fictions, and A Century of Enthusiasm.- Early Years :...
  
  , FanGraphs Audio is a weekly program archived at FanGraphs Audio.

Fantasy Baseball

• FanGraphs works with Ottoneu baseball to offer a fantasy baseball program with prizes.

FanGraphs and NotGraphs

• Dave Allen – FanGraph's expert in spatial statistics and graphical analysis. He began writing for FanGraphs in May 2009 and also writes for Baseball Analysts. Allen is also a Ph.D. student in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  Ecology and evolutionary biology
  Some U.S. universities are home to degree programs titled Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, offering integrated studies in the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology. The wording is intended as representing the alternative approach from the frequently used pairing of Cell and Molecular...
  
   at the University of Michigan
  University of Michigan
  The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
  
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• Lucas Apostoleris - Joined FanGraphs in August 2011, leaving Beyond the Boxscore. Apostoleris also writes for The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
  , a personal blog entitled 'Don't Bring In The Lefty' and provides baseball commentary on Twitter
  Twitter
  Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
  
   as @DBITLefty.

• Robert J. Baumann - Joined NotGraphs in October 2011.

• Jeremy Blachman
  Jeremy Blachman
  Jeremy Blachman , a 2005 Harvard graduate, is a journalist and the author of Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel.-Biography:Blachman received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and currently lives in Los Angeles.-Annonymous Lawyer:...
  
  - Joined NotGraphs in October 2011, author of Anonymous Lawyer: A Novel.

• Summer Anne Burton - Joined NotGraphs in October 2011, also writes and draws for Every Hall of Famer

• Dave Cameron
  Dave Cameron (baseball analyst)
  Dave Cameron is the managing editor and a senior writer of FanGraphs and owner-operator of USS Mariner.-Biography:Cameron grew up in Seattle. In 1994 he started writing about baseball in Usenet newsgroups and reading Rob Neyer. He also played baseball...
  
  – Managing editor and senior writer of FanGraphs, Cameron was the co-founder of Ussmariner.com and previously worked for Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
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• Matthew Carruth – Began writing for FanGraphs in September 2008 Carruth previously wrote for The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
   and ESPN.com
  ESPN.com
  ESPN.com is the official website of ESPN and a division of ESPN Inc. Since launching in 1995 as ESPNet.SportsZone.com, the website has developed numerous sections including: Page 2, SportsNation, ESPN 3.com, ESPN Motion, My ESPN, ESPN Sports Travel, ESPN Video Games, ESPN Insider, ESPN.com's...
  
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• Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli
  Carson Cistulli is an American poet, essayist and English professor. His works of poetry include Some Common Weaknesses Illustrated, Assorted Fictions, and A Century of Enthusiasm.- Early Years :...
  
  – Senior writer and editor of FanGraphs. He previously worked for The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
   and writes the "One Night Only" feature.

• Chris Cwik – A graduate of Marquette University
  Marquette University
  Marquette University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1881, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
  
   and a former Milwaukee Brewers
  Milwaukee Brewers
  The Milwaukee Brewers are a professional baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, currently playing in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
  
   intern, Cwik was a frequent contributor to FanGraphs community blog before joining the staff in December 2010.

• Patrick Dubuque - Joined NotGraphs in May 2011, Dubuque also has written for Pitchers & Poets, The Playful Utopia and SB Nation
  SB Nation
  SB Nation is a sports network owned and operated by Vox Media with more than 300 separate web sites maintained primarily by part-time contract writers. They put together posts, facilitate dialogue and interact with commenters. At a kickoff event in February 2009, there were about 185 blogs...
  
  's Lookout Landing.

• Marc Hulet – Provides articles and scouting reports on minor league prospects, Hulet was named by Sun Media one of the hundred most influential Canadians in Baseball.

• Matt Klaassen – Staff Writer, contributor to FanGraphs Audio, Klaasen also works for Beyond the Boxscore.

• Jack Moore – Staff Writer for Fangraphs and contributor to NotGraphs. Moore also created the Brewers blog Disciples of Uecker and contributes to Roto Hardball.

• Joe Pawlikowski – Pawlikowski, also of River Avenue Blues, writes the daily "Morning After" feature.

• Dayn Perry
  Dayn Perry
  -Journalism:His journalism can be found on FanGraphs online journal NotGraphs. He formerly published with BaseballProspectus.com and at Foxsports.com...
  
  – Senior writer for NotGraphs, Perry is the author of the book Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones (2006) and Reggie Jackson: The Life and Thunderous Career of Baseball's Mr. October (2010).

• David Laurila – Staff writer for FanGraphs, former writer for Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
   where he wrote the Prospectus Q&A from February 2006 until May 2011.

• Mike Newman – Joined FanGraphs in September, 2011. Newman, taking over for Frankie Piliere, analyzes prospective major league baseball players.

• Patrick Newman – Covers Japanese baseball for FanGraphs, Newman is the sole writer in charge of following the player movement, general news, and projections for the league. Newman also writes for NPB Tracker, Japanesebaseball.com and Rotowire
  RotoWire
  RotoWire.com is a company based in Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. that specializes in fantasy sports news and fantasy-style games.RotoWire provides fantasy news and information to ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, FoxSports.com, NASCAR.com, NFL.com, NBA.com, and Baseball Prospectus.RotoWire is the successor to...
  
  . He lived in Japan from 2000–2003 and previously wrote for Baseball Digest.

• Alex Remington – Weekly contributor, began writing on FanGraphs in February 2010 and also contributes to Yahoo! Sports
  Yahoo! Sports
  Yahoo! Sports was launched on December 8, 1997. It receives a majority of its information from STATS, Inc., employs various writers, and has team pages for teams in almost every North American sport...
  
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• Eno Sarris – Began writing for FanGraphs in July 2010. Sarris is also a staff writer for NotGraphs and RotoGraphs. He previously wrote for Bloomberg Sports and Amazin' Avenue

• Eric Seidman – Began writing for FanGraphs in August 2008. He is the co-creator of the Brotherly Glove and previously wrote for Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
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• Steve Slowinski – Maintains the FanGraphs Library which he calls "your Hitchhiker’s Guide to navigating the universe of sabermetrics". He writes weekly for FanGraphs as well as serving as the editor-in-chief of DRaysBay, writer and editor to the St. Petersburg Times
  St. Petersburg Times
  The St. Petersburg Times is a United States newspaper. It is one of two major publications serving the Tampa Bay Area, the other being The Tampa Tribune, which the Times tops in both circulation and readership. Based in St...
  
   and running SB Nation Tampa Bay.

• Paul Swydan – A graduate of Boston University
  Boston University
  Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
  
   and the University of Denver
  University of Denver
  The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....
  
   Swayden worked 7 years for the Colorado Rockies
  Colorado Rockies
  The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado. Established in 1991, they started play in 1993 and are in the West Division of the National League. The team is named after the Rocky Mountains...
  
   and has previously written for Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
  , ESPN, Rockies Magazine and the Biz Of Baseball. Swydan became a staff writer for FanGraphs in January 2011 where he maintains the FanGraphs Power Rankings. He also writes for MLB.com
  MLB.com
  MLB.com is the official site of Major League Baseball and is overseen by Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. . MLB.com is a source of baseball-related information, including baseball news, statistics, and sports columns...
  
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• Tommy Rancel – Began writing for FanGraphs in February 2011. Rancel is also the MLB Insider for ESPN 1040 (Tampa Bay) and writer/analyst for Bloomberg Sports. He co-founded The Process Report with R.J. Anderson in 2010 following his time as the editor-in-chief of DRaysBay.com. He has also written for Beyond The Boxscore, The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
  , and Bright House Sports Network.

• Navin Vaswani – NotGraphs staff writer, Toronto correspondent. A former associate producer with TVO's
  TVOntario
  TVOntario, often referred to only as TVO , is a publicly funded, educational English-language television station and media organization in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is operated by the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, a Crown corporation owned by the Government of Ontario...
  
   The Agenda
  The Agenda
  The Agenda with Steve Paikin is the flagship current affairs program of TVOntario, Ontario’s public broadcaster. The show practises what anchor and senior editor Steve Paikin calls "long-form" journalism. Each hour-long program tackles no more than two topics, and often only one...
  
   with Steve Paikin
  Steve Paikin
  Steve Paikin is a Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer at TVOntario . He is currently anchor and senior editor of TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin, and previously hosted TVO's Studio 2 and Diplomatic Immunity.A native of Hamilton, Ontario,...
  
  , he has previously written for The Globe and Mail
  The Globe and Mail
  The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
  
   and Sports and the City. While with the globe Vaswani toured the United States to see each of the 29 other stadiums in 55 days for a feature entitled Stealing Home. With NotGraphs Vaswani contributes autobiographical essays, article reviews, interviews and poetry. His first article for NotGraphs in November 2010 was entitled "Derek Jeter: The Curse of the Captain," a playful look at the intersection of baseball and internet culture during Derek Jeter's
  Derek Jeter
  Derek Sanderson Jeter is an American baseball shortstop who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. A twelve-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, Jeter's clubhouse presence, on-field leadership, hitting ability, and baserunning have made him a central...
  
   2010 free agency. In addition to his online work he is currently working on a book based on his experience touring the United States for the Globe.

• Cody Wiewandt - Joined NotGraphs in October, 2011. Previously wrote for the Paris Review
  Paris Review
  The Paris Review is a literary quarterly founded in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. Plimpton edited the Review from its founding until his death in 2003. In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S...
  
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• Bradley Woodrum – FanGraphs and NotGraphs contributor since March 2011. Woodrum holds degrees from Jacksonville University
  Jacksonville University
  Jacksonville University is a private university in Jacksonville, Florida, on the banks of the St. Johns River. The school was founded in 1934 as a two year college and was known as Jacksonville Junior College until 1958, when it shifted its focus to four-year university degrees and adopted its...
  
   (B.A. Economics and B.A. English) and Roosevelt University
  Roosevelt University
  Roosevelt University is a coeducational, private university with campuses in Chicago, Illinois and Schaumburg, Illinois. Founded in 1945, the university is named in honor of both former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The university's curriculum is based on...
  
   (M.A. Economics). He also co-founded Cubs Stats and writes for DRaysBay and SBN Tampa Bay.

• Jesse Wolfersberger - Began writing for FanGraphs in December, 2010.

• Jeff Zimmerman – Began writing for FanGraphs in March 2010. Zimmerman writes weekly for FanGraphs where he is the expert on player health and injuries and is a staff writer for RotoGraphs.

Former

• RJ Anderson – Now writes for Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
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• Pat Andriola - Joined FanGraphs in June, 2010 until October, 2010 Before joining FanGraphs Andriola wrote for The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
   (2009, 2010) and, as a student, worked for the Major League Baseball's Labor Relations Department.

• Peter Bendix – Now works for the Tampa Bay Rays
  Tampa Bay Rays
  The Tampa Bay Rays are a Major League Baseball team based in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Rays are a member of the Eastern Division of MLB's American League. Since their inception in , the club has played at Tropicana Field...
  
   as an assisant of Baseball Research and Development.

• Sky Kalkman – Left FanGraphs in 2006, then wrote for Beyond The Boxscore, and now writes for Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
  .

• Jonah Keri
  Jonah Keri
  Jonah Keri is a Canadian journalist, sportswriter and an editor. He is also a New York Times bestselling author.-Early life and education:...
  
  – Keri joined FanGraphs in January of 2011, introduced as having "written for every publication known to man" -- Playboy
  Playboy
  Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
  
  , ESPN
  ESPN
  Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
  
  , and Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus
  Baseball Prospectus is an organization that publishes a website, BaseballProspectus.com, devoted to the sabermetric analysis of baseball. BP has a staff of regular columnists and provides advanced statistics as well player and team performance projections on the site...
  
   among others, the author of The Extra 2%: How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First (2011). Keri was a staff writer for FanGraphs and NotGraphs until August of 2011 when he left to write "full-time" at Grantland.com.

• Erik Manning – Now writes for Beyond The Boxscore.

• Frankie Piliere – Now writes for Scout.com.

• Bryan Smith - Wrote for FanGraphs from January, 2010 until November, 2010.

• Steve Sommer - Wrote for FanGraphs from March, 2010 until May 2010. Now writes for The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
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External links

• Main website
• http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/article/whats-new-at-fangraphs/Seidman, Eric, "What’s new at Fangraphs?," The Hardball Times
  The Hardball Times
  is a website which publishes news, original comments and statistical analysis of baseball each week Monday through Friday, in addition to the Hardball Times Annual book which features essays by leading sabermetric personalities. The website features the slogan "Baseball. Insight...
  
  , 1/16/09 accessed 8/24/09]
• Studeman, Dave, "Fangraphs going wild," The Hardball Times, 3/15/08, accessed 8/24/09
• Anderson, Chuck, "Decoding Fangraphs: Hitting Stats," Fantastic Gameday, 8/24/09, accessed 8/24/09
• Fangraphs App Description in ITunes App Store, 9/18/09, accessed 10/14/09
• Hawk Ridge Consulting