cwdaily: Player game-by-game generator

cwdaily produces one record for each individual player appearance in a game. Each record contains identifying information and the player’s batting, pitching, and position-specific fielding totals for that game. Team totals are not reported by cwdaily; they are available through the standard and extended fields of cwgame.

Note

The name “daily” follows the traditional baseball usage of “dailies” or “day-by-day records” for a player’s list of per-game records. It is a slight misnomer: each record represents one game rather than one calendar day, so a player can have multiple records on the date of a doubleheader or tripleheader.

cwdaily has no DiamondWare equivalent. It outputs up to 154 fields, all of which are included by default. The fields generated can be selected with the -f command-line option. The other common command-line options are described in the command-line options table.

Identification fields (0-10)

cwdaily identification fields

Field number	Description	Header
0	Game ID	GAME_ID
1	Game date	GAME_DT
2	Game number	GAME_CT
3	Player appearance date	APPEAR_DT
4	Team ID	TEAM_ID
5	Player ID	PLAYER_ID
6	Batting-order slot	SLOT_CT
7	Sequence within batting-order slot	SEQ_CT
8	Home-team flag	HOME_FL
9	Opponent ID	OPPONENT_ID
10	Park ID	PARK_ID

GAME_DT is derived from the game’s info,date record and is reported in YYYYMMDD form. APPEAR_DT is intended to identify the date on which the player entered the game. For starters, it is set to GAME_DT.

While processing the game, Chadwick maintains a current appearance date, initially set to GAME_DT. When it encounters a comment whose text begins with suspended,, it replaces the current appearance date with the value following that prefix. A substitute’s APPEAR_DT is the current appearance date when the substitution is processed. Thus a player who first enters after a properly coded resumption receives the resumed date, while players already in the game retain the dates on which they originally appeared.

This result depends on the suspension and resumption comments in the source file. Chadwick does not infer an appearance date from schedules or other games, and it does not validate or normalize the date taken from a suspended, comment. If that coding is absent, misplaced, or inconsistent, APPEAR_DT may not reflect the player’s actual appearance date. For boxscore event files, where player statistics are supplied in extended records rather than reconstructed from plays, APPEAR_DT is set to GAME_DT for every player.

SLOT_CT is 1 through 9 for a player in the batting order and 0 for a pitcher who does not occupy a batting-order slot. SEQ_CT gives the player’s order among all players who occupied that slot. HOME_FL is 1 for the home team and 0 for the visiting team.

Batting fields (11-35)

cwdaily batting fields

Field number	Description	Header
11	Games played as a batter	B_G
12	Plate appearances	B_PA
13	At bats	B_AB
14	Runs	B_R
15	Hits	B_H
16	Total bases	B_TB
17	Doubles	B_2B
18	Triples	B_3B
19	Home runs	B_HR
20	Grand slams	B_HR4
21	Runs batted in	B_RBI
22	Game-winning RBI	B_GW
23	Walks	B_BB
24	Intentional walks	B_IBB
25	Strikeouts	B_SO
26	Grounded into double plays	B_GDP
27	Hit by pitch	B_HP
28	Sacrifice hits	B_SH
29	Sacrifice flies	B_SF
30	Stolen bases	B_SB
31	Caught stealing	B_CS
32	Reached on interference	B_XI
33	Games as designated hitter	B_G_DH
34	Games as pinch hitter	B_G_PH
35	Games as pinch runner	B_G_PR

Pitching fields (36-70)

cwdaily pitching fields

Field number	Description	Header
36	Games pitched	P_G
37	Games started	P_GS
38	Complete games	P_CG
39	Shutouts	P_SHO
40	Games finished	P_GF
41	Wins	P_W
42	Losses	P_L
43	Saves	P_SV
44	Outs recorded	P_OUT
45	Batters faced	P_TBF
46	At bats against	P_AB
47	Runs allowed	P_R
48	Earned runs allowed	P_ER
49	Hits allowed	P_H
50	Total bases allowed	P_TB
51	Doubles allowed	P_2B
52	Triples allowed	P_3B
53	Home runs allowed	P_HR
54	Grand slams allowed	P_HR4
55	Walks allowed	P_BB
56	Intentional walks allowed	P_IBB
57	Strikeouts	P_SO
58	Grounded into double plays	P_GDP
59	Hit batsmen	P_HP
60	Sacrifice hits against	P_SH
61	Sacrifice flies against	P_SF
62	Reached on interference	P_XI
63	Wild pitches	P_WP
64	Balks	P_BK
65	Inherited runners	P_IR
66	Inherited runners who scored	P_IRS
67	Ground-ball outs	P_GO
68	Air outs	P_AO
69	Pitches	P_PITCH
70	Strikes	P_STRIKE

P_OUT records outs rather than fractional innings; divide by three to obtain innings pitched. If a pitcher has more than one pitching stint in a game, the pitching fields combine all of those stints.

P_PITCH and P_STRIKE are reported only when the game’s info,pitches value is pitches. They are blank when complete pitch data is not indicated.

Fielding fields (71-153)

Fielding statistics are reported separately for each defensive position. The table gives the exact field number and header in each cell. The common suffixes have these meanings:

• G: games at the position;

• GS: games started at the position;

• OUT: outs recorded while at the position;

• TC: total chances;

• PO: putouts;

• A: assists;

• E: errors;

• DP: double plays; and

• TP: triple plays.

As with P_OUT, an OUT field records outs rather than fractional innings; divide by three to obtain innings fielded.

cwdaily fielding fields

Position	G	GS	OUT	TC	PO	A	E	DP	TP
Pitcher	71 F_P_G	72 F_P_GS	73 F_P_OUT	74 F_P_TC	75 F_P_PO	76 F_P_A	77 F_P_E	78 F_P_DP	79 F_P_TP
Catcher	80 F_C_G	81 F_C_GS	82 F_C_OUT	83 F_C_TC	84 F_C_PO	85 F_C_A	86 F_C_E	87 F_C_DP	88 F_C_TP
First base	91 F_1B_G	92 F_1B_GS	93 F_1B_OUT	94 F_1B_TC	95 F_1B_PO	96 F_1B_A	97 F_1B_E	98 F_1B_DP	99 F_1B_TP
Second base	100 F_2B_G	101 F_2B_GS	102 F_2B_OUT	103 F_2B_TC	104 F_2B_PO	105 F_2B_A	106 F_2B_E	107 F_2B_DP	108 F_2B_TP
Third base	109 F_3B_G	110 F_3B_GS	111 F_3B_OUT	112 F_3B_TC	113 F_3B_PO	114 F_3B_A	115 F_3B_E	116 F_3B_DP	117 F_3B_TP
Shortstop	118 F_SS_G	119 F_SS_GS	120 F_SS_OUT	121 F_SS_TC	122 F_SS_PO	123 F_SS_A	124 F_SS_E	125 F_SS_DP	126 F_SS_TP
Left field	127 F_LF_G	128 F_LF_GS	129 F_LF_OUT	130 F_LF_TC	131 F_LF_PO	132 F_LF_A	133 F_LF_E	134 F_LF_DP	135 F_LF_TP
Center field	136 F_CF_G	137 F_CF_GS	138 F_CF_OUT	139 F_CF_TC	140 F_CF_PO	141 F_CF_A	142 F_CF_E	143 F_CF_DP	144 F_CF_TP
Right field	145 F_RF_G	146 F_RF_GS	147 F_RF_OUT	148 F_RF_TC	149 F_RF_PO	150 F_RF_A	151 F_RF_E	152 F_RF_DP	153 F_RF_TP

The catcher has two additional fields:

Additional catcher fielding fields

Field number	Description	Header
89	Passed balls	F_C_PB
90	Catcher’s interference	F_C_XI

TC is calculated as putouts plus assists plus errors. It is blank if any of those three component statistics is unavailable.

Missing and inapplicable statistics

An unavailable statistic, whether because it is not reported or not able to be computed from the data, is emitted as a blank field. A statistic which is computable from the data, or which does not apply because the player did not appear in that role or position, is reported as zero. In particular, Retrosheet boxscore files use “-1” to indicate null values; these are correctly rendered as null (blank) values.