Alright, so I was messing around with some baseball stats the other day, specifically looking at the Cubs’ stolen bases. I got this idea to see if I could pull out their stolen base numbers from the current season. It’s a pretty simple thing, but I thought, why not document it? Maybe someone else will find it useful, or maybe I’ll forget how I did it later.
First, I went to the team’s official website. You know, the one where they have all the stats and player info. Once I got there, I clicked on the “Stats” section. Then I selected “2023” from the season drop-down menu and picked “Batting” from the type menu because that’s where stolen bases would be, right?
The website then showed me a long table with all the team’s batting stats, which was pretty overwhelming. So, I scrolled down to find the column with the “SB” header. It took a few seconds. And there it was! All the players’ stolen base numbers lined up. But I wanted to see the total, so I looked at the bottom of the column, and bam, there it is!
The team has racked up 30 stolen bases so far this season. It’s not a huge number, but hey, it’s something. I copied that number and pasted it into a spreadsheet I was using to track some of my own baseball bets. Just keeping tabs, you know?
My Simple Steps:
- Visited the team’s official website.
- Navigated to the “Stats” section.
- Selected “2023” for the season and “Batting” for the stats type.
- Scrolled to find the “SB” (Stolen Bases) column.
- Located the total team stolen bases at the bottom of the column.
- Copied and saved the number for my records.
That’s pretty much it. I just wanted to share this in case anyone else is into tracking this kind of stuff. It’s nothing groundbreaking, just a simple way to grab some stats from the web. It took me like, what, five minutes? Maybe ten if you count the time I spent looking at other stats, hah! Hope this helps someone out there!
