Friends of Retrosheet

Retrosheet provides two ways to parse its event files.

Retrosheet provides two pieces of software, BEVENT.exe and BGAME.exe, to parse its event files. These tools can be downloaded here Documentation for these tools is provided here.

In addition to these tools, Retrosheet also offers parsed play-by-play data which can be downloaded here.

The links below highlight additional resources provided by users of Retrosheet data to help make Retrosheet data more accessible, as well as highlight some of the analysis that has been done using Retrosheet data. If you have a suggested addition to any of these links, please contact Retrosheet at the e-mail provided below.

Resources for Using Retrosheet Data

Websites Using Retrosheet Data

Research Papers

In addition to the above resources, Charlie Pavitt has compiled an extensive bibliography of more than 4,000 sabermetric research papers. Thank you, Charlie, for sharing this with the Retrosheet community.

Bibliography of Sabermetric Research

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