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Player Stats Quiz

seawolf17 Apr 02 2013 10:53 AM

http://www.highheatstats.com/player-stats-quiz/ Stumbled across this game today, and it's neat. It gives you a random player -- stats, bio/demo info -- but no name, and you have to identify the player. I set the parameters to "all players 1980-present" and it's HARD AS HELL. Resetting it to "batters with at least 1000 PAs 1980-present."

metsmarathon Apr 02 2013 12:30 PM Re: Player Stats Quiz

hmm, i didn't see hte option to adjust the minimum plate appearances. i gave up after getting a guy who tossed 42 middle relief innings for milwaukee in one season in the mid nineties.

seawolf17 Apr 02 2013 12:35 PM Re: Player Stats Quiz

It gives you the option after you select "hitter" or "pitcher."

metsmarathon Apr 02 2013 12:49 PM Re: Player Stats Quiz

oh, yeah, there it is. i set it to batters playing during 2005, with 5000+ plate appearances. i still got a few wrong.

Chad Ochoseis Apr 02 2013 12:51 PM Re: Player Stats Quiz

What makes it really tough to guess position players is that it just lists the positions without regard to frequency. So if a player played two games at 1B and 152 at LF, he's listed as 1B, LF. This drove me nuts when the program gave me Cleon Jones. I suck at it. Selected post-1975 position players with at least 2000 career at bats. I tried fifteen players, and the only ones I got right were Jones, Beltran, and John Wathan. I missed a whole bunch of middle infielders from the early 1980s.