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Besides temperature, wind speed and direction, the anemometers also take readings on humidity, dew point, and a number of other weather-related factors.

#Little league weatherbug install

Before the 2007 season, MLB and Weatherbug were able to install weather instruments, known as anemometers, in or near every ballpark. I reached out to WeatherBug, which is now known as Earth Networks and got details. Now I know the scoreboard temperature shown in Coors Field isn’t taken at Coors Field…but the box score weather might still be good. I also learned that the weather as reported on the Coors Field scoreboard is actually from Denver International Airport, which is outside the Denver “valley” over 20 miles away. They pointed out what looked to me like a weather vane at the top of the center field bleachers and said it had been put there “at least five years ago” by a company called WeatherBug. Undaunted, I then contacted the Rockies, who helpfully directed me to the official scorers for the games at Coors Field. I knew Baseball-Reference also had weather data in its game logs and invaluable Play Index tool, so I reached out to site founder Sean Forman to see if he had some insight, but he also was unaware of where the box score weather readings were taken. I reached out to Mark Pankin from Retrosheet, and he confirmed Retrosheet weather data are taken from the official box score weather. In 1996, only six percent of the games didn’t have temperature, and since 1998, only a Toronto Blue Jays game on Apis missing a box score temperature. However, even as recently as 1994, 24.7 percent of major league games didn’t have weather data. In 1988, there were attempts to report it more regularly, with individual years like 1992 reporting a temperature for each game. In the Retrosheet database, box score weather has been recorded in 10-30 percent of the games from 1950 to 1987. So research into the validity of the data began. He had heard the weather readings might not even be taken from the stadium itself. He said I should check the data because they might be unreliable. A conversation with Mitchel Lichtman, co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages, turned toward the Rockies, then toward the ideas I had for weather research. Since weather gets wacky in Colorado, especially in April and May, I thought that would be a neat topic.Ī few weeks after building the database, I was at the SABR Analytics conference in Phoenix and found I had a problem. I say “at first,” because I realized that often when I’ve seen a box score on the internet or in a newspaper, it usually includes those weather details in the same section as the official attendance. I was a bit surprised, at first, to see there was temperature, wind speed and wind direction data in the data set. In February, I decided to build a Retrosheet database to help analyze some data on the Colorado Rockies. See map below (boundary lines are approximations).Not all teams have anemometers inside their ballparks.

Is my residence within league boundaries? Based on skills day your child may be moved up if desired.Ĭan my child play in the minor division if he/she has played Tee Ball? Your child will need to come to skills day and be evaluated. You can register, pay, and upload your proofs of residency online by going to: and creating an account or logging into an existing account. If you have submitted one in past seasons, we will honor it.

#Little league weatherbug verification

Players who established “residence” or “school attendance” for regular season and/or tournament prior to the 2021-2022 season using the Player Verification Form, and can produce the form with proper proofs and signatures, will be grandfathered and will NOT need to complete a new Player Verification Form.Ĭourtesy we can no longer accept new school enrollment forms. IMPORTANT NOTE: Example – Three documents from the same Group (utility bill, cable bill, and bank statement) constitute only ONE document. Utility Bills (i.e., Gas, Electric, Water/Sewer, Phone, Heating, Waste Disposal) Vehicle Records (i.e., Registration, Lease, etc.)įederal Records (i.e., Federal Tax, Social Security, etc.)

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Residence shall be established and supported by documents containing the full residence which includes parent(s) or guardian(s) name, street address, city, state and zip code information, dated or in force between February 1 of the previous year and February 1 of the current year, from one or more documents from EACH of the three Groups outlined below: Group I You need a proof of age: Birth Certificate