Minor League Splits Blog

If you want to get the full site experience here at Minor League Splits, it’s very important that your browswer recognizes the HTML acronym tag. To check whether you’re getting the benefits of that tag, check out Philip Hughes’s Trenton splits page. In every row, every number from BAA all the way over to Popups should have a dotted black line (or something simlilar) under it. When you mouse over the numbers with the dotted black lines, another number should appear.

In other words, it should look something like this:

(For some reason, when I took a screenshot, the cursor disappeared: in that example, the cursor is hovering over the “9″ in the “L” column.)

The league averages have been part of the splits tables for a few weeks now; just this morning I added several new tools for batted ball analysis. Mouse over the groundball total, and you’ll see the player’s groundball percentage. Line drive total: line drive percentage. Fly ball total: home runs per fly ball. Popup total: infield flies per fly ball [P/(F+P)].

I haven’t yet included any of those acronyms on team or league pages, but that’s on the list.

If you can’t see the dotted black lines, and nothing happens when you mouse over those numbers, you should switch to Firefox. Actually, you should switch to Firefox anyway. I don’t completely understand which browsers recognize the acronym tag, though, because some friends in IE6 have reported that it’s working for them, while on the copy of IE6 on my machine, it doesn’t work.

Thanks to Dean, an enterprising reader of Minor League Ball, Firefox users can now search for players on MinorLeagueSplits.com directly from their toolbar.

Download the plugin here. I’ve added it to my toolbar and, of course, I use it all the time. (Mostly to search for Yovani Gallardo, whose page I use to test most of the changes I make to the site.) The one small downside is that you can only use the plugin to search for last names, like the search box on the official Minor League Baseball site.

Thanks again to Dean for putting this together. If this isn’t enough to get you to switch to Firefox, I’ll be posting some more persuasive reasons over the next week or two. This site has mostly been tested Firefox, and I’ve tried to take advantage of some of my favorite features.