Thank You and Happy New Year!

We here at Seamheads.com would like to thank those of you who visited the site in 2007 as well as those who have either bookmarked or linked to us.  We really appreciate you and hope you come back.  In less than three months we’ve attracted more than 20,000 visitors, who’ve accounted for almost 500,000 hits!  We can’t wait to see how many more visitors we attract in 2008 and we have several projects in the works that we think will bring you back to Seamheads.com for more.  A couple of them are major and at least one them can be considered ground-breaking; unfortunately we can’t go into detail about the latter yet because we’re still ironing out the details.  But we can list a couple of projects that will be posted to the site very soon.

• Ballpark Factors Database: Soon we’ll have the most extensive ballpark factors database on the Internet.  Our database will not only list factors for each type of hit, but it will include factor splits as well as stat splits.  For instance, if you want to know how right-handed home run hitters were affected by Turner Field in 2000, as opposed to left-handed sluggers we’ll have factor splits (HR factor for righties was 87; for lefties it was 105) and lefty/righty stat splits to complement the factors.  We have data on every stadium in major league history as well as those used in the National Association, the American Association, the Union Association, the Players League, and the Federal League (although not all will include splits).

• Quote Encyclopedia: We’re in the process of building an encyclopedia of quotes that will not only include the quote but will list the person who spoke or wrote it, the source of the quote (newspaper, book, magazine, periodical, etc.) and the date it appeared in print.  This will be a great tool for researchers who are looking for material for their books, articles, and/or essays.  Here’s a sample page to peruse.

There’s much more to look forward to here at Seamheads.com, but those are two of the many projects we’re working on.  We thank you for taking the time to explore our site and we look forward to adding many exciting new features over the next few months.