Bunt.

Inspiration

It was WBC Semifinal Japan vs USA, in the 8th-inning where Japan trailing by 1 run. Lead off hitter gets on with a hit, and following hitter, Tetsuto Yamada, arguably one of the best Japanese hitter (with 100 HRs in past three years), puts down a sac bunt. Runner moves to second, but does not score. Japan lost...

So, the bunt was on my mind. Came in the hackathon thinking I may want to do something with it. And I did.

What it does

Just a datavis and data exploration tool.

How I built it

Data source is mlb.com's sortable team stats
I made a spreadsheet out of it
I set up a github page
used chartist js and datatables js

Challenges I ran into

Procrastination. I do this every hackathon but I really didn't decide what I wanted to do till about lunch.

What I learned

I got excited that data is kind of interesting. No surprise but NL teams are much much more likely to put down a bunt. Also, using baseballsavant's stat cast search, you can find out botched bunt attempts by selecting Bunt Groundout, Bunt Lineout, and Bunt Pop Out. Which is pretty col.