Of course, just about anything that can be browsed on the internet can also be downloaded (“File”->”Save Page As”), but these sites normally present their data scattered over thousands of pages and in many different formats. This section will focus on data that is made available primarily for browsing.
So what can we find on the Internet and where can we find it? We will break the answer to this question into two parts: sites that let us browse statistical data and sites that let us download it. Few of these sites even existed back at the beginning of the millenium and most of those that did have changed almost beyond recognition. This chapter will describe some of the Internet’s best sources of baseball data. And it isn’t only that computer and Internet speeds are more than an order of magnitude faster than they were back at the end of the last century there has been a tremendous increase in the amount of information available as well. This was true in 2000 when How to Do Baseball Research was originally published and it is even more true today. It’s a good time to be a baseball researcher with a computer.
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