Baseball Stats Center

Welcome to Rhino Software's Baseball Stats Center. All files provided on this page are in ZIP file format. To open ZIP files and extract/copy the baseball player stats files that are stored inside, you'll need an unzipping program such as WinZip, PKZip, or EasyZip (which is a free program).  

All files provided for download are the exclusive property of Rhino Software. Any reproduction, redistribution, retransmission, or resale of these files, without prior written consent from
Rhino Software, is strictly prohibited.

 About the Stats Files | Tips for Rhino Baseball Commissioners 

About the Stats Files

Stats are Stored in ZIP Files:
The Baseball Stats Table provides download links to baseball stats files that are currently available for the 2008 major league season. Note that these files are in ZIP file format. After downloading a ZIP file, you will need to unzip it to get at the actual stats files that are stored inside.

Create a Folder to Store Your Stats Files:
We strongly recommend that you create a folder on your hard drive for storing both the ZIP files that you download and the actual player stats files that you extract/copy from those zipped files. For example, you might create a folder on your C:\ drive called MLB2008 to hold the baseball stats for the 2008 season. You can easily create a folder to store your stats files by using the Create New Directory function in Rhino Baseball (found under the Tools menu), or by using the Windows operating system. 

Naming Conventions for Stats Files:
After downloading a ZIP file from this web site, you'll need to unzip it and extract the stats files found inside to your stats folder (e.g. C:\MLB2008). The major league baseball player stats files will adhere to the following naming conventions (where mmddyy represents the Stats Date in month/day/year format): 

For Example:
NL040608PIT_YTD.TXT is the stats file for NL Pitchers stats thru 4/06/2008. Notice that all stats file names end in the suffix ".TXT", indicating that they're plain Text files.

YTD Stats Files contain Full Season Stats:
All stats files denoted as YTD contain player stats for the entire season. These are officially called Year-to-Date (YTD) player stats. You can download YTD stats from the links provided in the green section of the Stats Table.

    Important! Users of Rhino Baseball should ONLY import the YTD stat files into their database.                        

Last Week's Stats:
All stats files denoted as WEEK contain player stats for one week of the season. The stats week starts on Monday and goes thru Sunday. The Stats Date on a weekly stats file coincides with the Sunday date (end-of-the-week).
You can download YTD stats from the links provided in the violet section of the Stats Table. 

    Important! Users of Rhino Baseball should NEVER import the WEEK files into their database!
        Rhino Baseball computes its own weekly stats based off of the YTD stats. There's no need to import
        weekly stats, and doing so will cause you problems when computing your fantasy stats.             

Be Careful! -- Use the correct Stats Date:
When importing stats files into your Rhino Baseball database, be careful to specify the correct Stats Date.
For instance, if you're importing a stats file named ML040608BAT_YTD.TXT, then the Stats Date = 04/06/2008.

Specifying the wrong Stats Date for a stats file during importing will result in your fantasy stats calculations being incorrect. Along with recording roster moves for the wrong move date, this is the most common mistake that users of Rhino Baseball make, so please take your time and be careful when entering dates into the software.

Should you ever accidentally import the wrong stats file or specify the wrong stats date for it, you should delete that set of player stats using the Mass Change/Delete function in Rhino Baseball, and then re-import using the correct stats file and correct Stats Date. 

Stats Published on Monday Afternoon:
Updated Major League Baseball player stats files are normally published by 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, every Monday during the 2008 baseball season. Should any problems arise that will cause the player stats to be published later than usual, please check the ALERTS section at the top of this web page to get the scoop on when the stats files will become available. Our webmaster is also a longtime fantasy baseball commissioner who uses these stats files to run his own league, so rest assured that he does everything in his power to make sure the stats are posted here in as timely a fashion as possible.   

Tips for Rhino Baseball Commissioners

This section provides helpful tips for fantasy league commissioners who are using Rhino Baseball to manage their fantasy leagues this season.  

Tips about League Management:

IMPORTANT DATES:   
For the 2008 season, there are two very important dates you need to know:

STATS always thru SUNDAY:
Player Stats are always through Sunday's games. So when you're importing a player stats file into Rhino Baseball, always be sure to use the Sunday date (the one shown in the Stats Table) as the Stats Date for that file.

ALWAYS import YEAR-to-DATE STATS:
Users of Rhino Baseball should ONLY import the YTD (Year-To-Date) stat files into their database.
NEVER import the WEEK files into your database (those available in the violet column of the Stats Table below), as doing so will only cause you problems when computing your fantasy league stats.     

ROSTER MOVES always effective on MONDAY:
All weekly roster moves that you record in Rhino Baseball should take effect on Mondays. This should make sense because it's the day after the Sunday stats and the start of a new weekly reporting period.

PLAYERS who are ACTIVE to START THE SEASON:
All players on fantasy team rosters to start the 2008 season should have their Date Acquired transaction date occur before Opening Day 2008 (transaction date should be 3/30/2008 or earlier). If you need to correct a player transaction that you incorrectly recorded during a prior week, simply use the Transaction Log function in Rhino Baseball to make the correction (i.e. adjust the Transaction Date or Roster Status of the given player).   

Use MASS CHANGE to Fix Mistakes made when Importing Files:
If you ever accidentally import the wrong stats file or specify the wrong stats date for a file you've imported, delete that set of player stats using the Mass Change/Delete function (use option #14) in Rhino Baseball, and then re-import using the correct stats file and be sure to use the correct Stats Date.

Tips about In-Season Trades:

Do you play in an NL-only or AL-only fantasy league? If so, please make sure to read this tip.

When players are traded from the American League to the National League, or vice versa, it's important to make sure that you go into the MLB Player Maintenance function and change the Pro Team of the affected players to their correct value (the major league team that the player was traded to).

After updating the MLB player info, be sure to open the Free Agent List function to refresh your free agent pool (Rhino Baseball picks up any players who have switched leagues and automatically adds them to your pool).
 

Baseball Stats Table   

PLEASE REMEMBER!  Users of Rhino Baseball should download and import the YTD (Year-to-Date) stats into their Rhino Baseball database. You may certainly download and review the one-week stat files (eg: files with names such as MLB041308PIT_WEEK.TXT), but DO NOT import the one-week stats files into your Rhino Baseball database. Doing so will only cause you problems. 

New or Matching Players for Rhino Baseball = May 11

When importing stats into the Rhino Baseball Database this week, a popup window might appear and ask if the following players are New, or Match a rookie or injured player that's already in your database:  

Need to see the list of New or Matching Players from previous weeks? Click here to check it out.

  Other Special Notes:

Tips about In-Season Trades:
Do you play in an NL-only or AL-only fantasy league? If so, read this tip.

When players are traded from the American League to the National League, or vice versa, it's important to make sure that you go into the MLB Player Maintenance function and change the Pro Team of the affected players to their correct value (the major league team that the player was traded to).

After updating the MLB player info, be sure to open the Free Agent List function to refresh your free agent pool (Rhino Baseball picks up any players who have switched leagues and automatically adds them to your pool).

Offseason File Links: 
At some point during the offseason, most of the links to the stats files within this table are deactivated.
That's because we offer the Final MLB Player Stats for sale as a 1-time download from our website. Thus, it does not make any sense to give those stats away for free here. There are, however, a few remaining download links which are left active so that folks signing up for the coming season's Rhino Stats Service can do some test downloads if they wish.