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It could be that in soccer clutch skill does indeed exist. Also, I shouldn't be so dismissive of the skill in baseball. To expand even further, they have shown that the player that is most likely to be "clutch" by the average definition of clutch is someone who puts the ball in play a lot. That, though, doesn't really tie into clutch since how frequently a player hits the ball into play isn't related to the score, but rather that player's own skill set. Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it exists in soccer or might be a situation (I don't watch soccer so apologies if I butcher the terms) where one team is putting its best defender on a player (Henry) and not the other (Gerrard). That's one of the beautiful things about baseball. It's a series of events that are largely independent of what the team as a whole does. Batter vs. pitcher, ball in play vs. fielder, fielder vs. base runner and so on. That's what makes baseball so easy to quantify and it's why statisticians love it. There is so much data to dig into. There's very little that happens in baseball that's not individually achieved whereas in a sport like soccer I imagine you have players trying to create spacing for others (scorers) so all of that works together.

They say a player is clutch if he hits well when the game is on the line. For example, a hit is more valuable when the game is tied than when one team leads by several runs. The interesting thing about clutch is that numerous analytical studies have shown that clutch ability really does not exist. it's something we attribute to a player (like Yogi) based on smaller sample sizes. These studies have shown that a player who hits, let's say .300 overall, is probably going to hit about .300 when it matters. The problem with clutch is that the numbers can seem very real in a single season, but over larger samples they tend to even out. Anyway, that's much more than you asked, but that's the gist of it. A home run in a tie game would be a "clutch" hit since it would or could win the game. I try to avoid the term when possible.

Perfect. Thanks a lot.

Thank you. I opened Alfred and entered fg Kris Bryant to search for Kris Bryant's stats on Fangraphs using the workflow linked earlier in this thread (latest version). Rather than bringing up his page so I could hit enter and be taken to his page in Safari, it just went back to the default google search. I'm running Alfred v 3.5 [876] and have just updated to macOS High Sierra. Here is what I get with the debugger. Thanks for any and all help. Starting debug for 'FanGraphs' [2017-09-28 12:49:30][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 255: Warning: file_get_contents(): stream does not support seeking in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Warning: file_get_contents(): Failed to seek to position -1 in the stream in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in Command line code:9 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in Command line code on line 9 [2017-09-28 12:49:30][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] JSON error: JSON text did not start with array or object and option to allow fragments not set. in JSON: Warning: file_get_contents(): stream does not support seeking in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Warning: file_get_contents(): Failed to seek to position -1 in the stream in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in Command line code:9 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in Command line code on line 9 [2017-09-28 12:49:30][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 255: Warning: file_get_contents(): stream does not support seeking in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Warning: file_get_contents(): Failed to seek to position -1 in the stream in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in Command line code:9 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in Command line code on line 9 [2017-09-28 12:49:31][ERROR: input.scriptfilter] Code 255: Warning: file_get_contents(): stream does not support seeking in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Warning: file_get_contents(): Failed to seek to position -1 in the stream in /Users/####/Desktop/Alfred/Alfred.alfredpreferences/workflows/user.workflow.####/simple_html_dom.php on line 75 Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function find() on boolean in Command line code:9 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in Command line code on line 9

Thanks. I'll check out the other threads. I appreciate the help.

This has been my most used workflow and I can't thank you guys enough, but anyone know why this might be broken after the update to macOS High Sierra. I type in fg (player name) and it goes to a google search instead of the player page on Fangraphs.com. Thanks a lot for the help.

I was wondering if anyone else has had some workflows that have been broken since updating to macOS High Sierra? It looks like I've got four or five that are no longer working that I can tell so far. Most of them seem to work fine though. Thank you for your help.

Any chance you can explain how to find out if there's an API on http://baseball-reference.com Thanks again

That's fantastic. Thanks a lot. David, could I then take the files in the workflow folder to set up a similar workflow for another site? Would it be as simple as replacing the fangraphs.com with the link for searching on another site? Thanks so much for your help.

Thanks, yes it's fangraphs.com. I'm sorry, but I'm new to Alfred and am not really sure what you mean here. Any chance you could help me out as I'm trying to learn the software as quickly as I can. Thanks.

I'd really like to be able to pull certain baseball statistics into the Alfred window. For example, if I wanted to know a player's batting average or wOBA, I'd like to be able to open Alfred, type a keyword and the player's name and have it appear. I'm thinking it would be somewhat similar to the Rotten Tomatoes workflow, which pulls relevant information. Could anyone help with this? Much thanks for any help.