New Baseball-Reference is coming

[TGO]

See a sample page here:

http://sandbox.baseball-reference.com/players/v/verlaju01.shtml

I love that they are now doing the per-9 stats, that is the main thing that drove me to the Cube on the very few occasions that I use that site.

They have added so many stats that you now have to click on the "Detailed..." links in each section. Here is a sample detailed page:

http://sandbox.baseball-reference.com/players/m/markani01-bat.shtml

[isestrex]

Looks a lot more like the Basketball-Reference.com format.

I must say I'm not in total favor of this new format... but I do like the sortable stats!

[OrangeJerseys]

I like it. Seems way cleaner.

[GnatsFan]

Interface actually now resembles BaseballCube+FanGraphs+Wikipedia

I'll admit I rarely relied on Baseball-Reference anymore instead opting for a BaseballCube/FanGraphs duo, but it looks like they could be adding a lot of new stats or at least exposing stats I never knew about before in addition to requiring less clicks to see all the stats (i.e. More scrolling... less clicking)

Very interesting.

[TyCobb]

Wow. I love B-R for looking at quick stats. Such an easy layout. I really like what they did....still going to use fangraphs.com though because of their individual pitching stats.

[Mark Carver]

Definitely love the changes. It doesn't look so cluttered as before. And they added new stuff to boot.

[Migrant Redbird]

It will take me a while to become comfortable with the new format. I'm still not acclimated to Office 2007.

[SteveA]

The greatest thing about baseball reference was always its speed. It was primarily text based and didn't have a lot of images to download and it always loaded SUPER fast. It was heavily inter-linked so that you could zip from page to page quickly. Have a player, you could quickly link to the team page for any team he played for any season, to quickly to go the list of games that team played to find a box score or find various splits, etc.

It seems to me that the format is already slower. I have clocked on some things and had to wait 7 or 8 seconds for a page.

That sucks.