Best Stats website?

[Guest]

what’s your favorite website for baseball stats?
 

I am looking for recommendations on the most user friendly websites for baseball stats (I.e Fangraphs, Baseball Savant, etc). 
 

[USAFChief]

Baseball Reference.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2023.shtml

[nicksaviking]

12 minutes ago, USAFChief said:

Baseball Reference.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MIN/2023.shtml

I agree, if user friendly is the goal. 

[chpettit19]

I'm a Fangraphs guy for straight stats. Baseball Savant is my 2nd go to, but they serve different purposes as Savant I use more for batted/pitched ball data. Fangraphs splits leaderboard and roster resource are my 2 go to places.

[AceWrigley]

Probably BBref and Fangraphs. Boy I sure miss BaseballGauge.com.  That site was the most fun for me with the way you could search players and teams and eras and see team breakdowns of Win Shares or WAR by position and defense value breakdowns. Unfortunately they sold to BBref and BBref has replied that they have no interest in reviving that format. Bummer.

[Puckett34]

Baseball Reference.  Baseball Savant if you want more sabremetric's.  Fangraphs is good too.  I just find the first two more user friendly.

[nicksaviking]

I like Fangraphs, but it feels like I'm using MS DOS. Maybe it's all the green or maybe it's just the sparseness to it. It's definitely a good site, but it's not terribly attractive to an optically challenged guy like me. And the search function stinks.

I also like Brooks Baseball for deep dives into pitch info, but that's not user friendly at all. And don't even try it on a mobile device.

[Vanimal46]

11 minutes ago, nicksaviking said:

I also like Brooks Baseball for deep dives into pitch info, but that's not user friendly at all. And don't even try it on a mobile device.

Same with Baseball Savant on mobile. Totally unusable. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

There isn't a best stats site, many have their specific strengths.

General stats and historical stats, B-Ref.

Advanced metrics, particularly fielding and stuff like wRC+, FanGraphs.

Pitch and hit data, Baseball Savant.

[Vanimal46]

B-Ref is the gold standard IMO. So easy to look up individual players, past and current teams, comparable players in history, etc. 

[nicksaviking]

2 hours ago, Vanimal46 said:

B-Ref is the gold standard IMO. So easy to look up individual players, past and current teams, comparable players in history, etc. 

Not to mention that MLBTR imbeds the player profile links to BBR. That's awesomely slick.

[ashbury]

8 hours ago, Twins_Fan_In_Texas said:

what’s your favorite website for baseball stats?
 

I am looking for recommendations on the most user friendly websites for baseball stats (I.e Fangraphs, Baseball Savant, etc). 
 

Lacking a specific description of what kind of stats you're looking for or to what use you'll put them, I will add my vote to b-r.com as my first stop for looking up stats that pertain to what actually happened (BA, ERA, etc), or for handy tools for assessing performance (OPS, etc), or for simple tools that provide a bit of forecasting insight (BABIP, FIP, etc). 

If you want to get into deep-dive things like spin rates on pitches, then that's not the place.

[Guest]

Thanks everyone!