Runners on Base

[ajbowler]

I'm currently working on an MLB scoreboard on an LED board in preparation for the upcoming season and am planning on using this very interesting API.

The above image is similar to what I'm going for here.

It'd be wonderful to get some data for occupied bases, balls/strikes count, and current number of outs. I can file separate issues for the balls/strikes and outs if needed.

Would you accept a pull request for this feature? If so, any ideas where to start? I'm not very familiar with the XML files this API is pulling from.

[ajbowler]

This will probably require some trial and error after the season starts to see how MLB's writeouts to the XMLs work during a live game but the inning XMLs might be of some use. Assuming their innings and at-bats are always sorted we could just traverse the tree to get the latest at-bat. It has a <runner> property for every runner on base at the time.

[trevor-viljoen]

If I remember correctly, there is a file that gets updated with that information during the game. It may be one of the scoreboard.xml files, but I can't remember. Once spring training starts up I'll make note of it.

There is a status tag with ball, strikes, outs, and "inning_state":

<status status="Final" ind="F" reason="" inning="9" top_inning="N" b="0" s="0" o="3" inning_state="" note="" is_perfect_game="N" is_no_hitter="N"/>

[ajbowler]

@trevor-viljoen I'll open a separate issue for balls/strikes/outs, I'd like to keep this one open for runners on base.

[ajbowler]

It looks like game_events.xml has some atbat tags for each inning that we can get the latest from. It has b1, b2, and b3 properties that are set to the player ID of whoever is on that base, and the atbat also has the pitches that have been thrown.

The existing events module should suffice for this.

[Fustrate]

You can also use linescore.xml's runner_on_base_status value like I did here if you're not interested in who exactly is on base.