Baseball Prospectus Press Release

Any plans to release a downloadable dump of the archives? There are some text mining geeks who could have a field day with this stuff (self included).

On a related note, any specifics on what license would apply to the archived content? One of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ licenses would be pretty swell. For instance, the CC BY-NC, Attribution-NonCommercial:

"This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms."

So how do we access it?

I'm glad this is happening... but any particular reason it is being done now as opposed to, say, the end of the year, or the end of the fiscal quarter or the end of the baseball season?

"For the first time, readers will be able to peruse the writings of some of Baseball Prospectus' most famous alumni including Keith Woolner (Cleveland Indians), Keith Law (ESPN), and Christina Kahrl (ESPN)."

Apparently Nate Silver isn't as famous as he thinks he is! :)

Thanks. This is a great idea.

Truth be told, we've been thinking about opening up the archives for some time. It's just that there have been a lot of higher priorities (like reengineering our stats and PECOTA!) in the way.

There are hundreds of people who have made Baseball Prospectus successful over the years. Unfortunately, we couldn't list them all in the press release. I'll do my best to give as many shout outs here (in no particular order) to those instrumental in our development. I apologize in advance if I miss somebody. Like I said, this could be a very long list.

Clay Davenport
Rany Jazayerli
Christina Kahrl
Joe Sheehan
Gary Huckabay
Nate Silver
Keith Woolner
Kathy Woolner
Dan Fox
Keith Law
James Click
Russell Carleton
Will Carroll
Cliff Corcoran
Jonah Keri
Dayne Perry
Eric Seidman
David Laurila
Chris Schofield
Derek Zumsteg
Maury Brown
Bryan Smith

...and everyone on our current staff from Kevin Goldstein, Steven Goldman, Jay Jaffe, Ben Lindbergh, Marc Normandin, John Perrotto, Dave Pease, and Colin Wyers to Rob McQuown, Larry Granillo, Dan Turkenkopf, Jason Parks, R.J Anderson, Mike Fast, Tommy Bennett, and Corey Dawkins. I haven't forgotten the fantasy guys either...Jason Collette, Craig Brown, Bill Baer, Michael Street, Michael Jong, and Mike Petriello.

Thank you all. We've really appreciated your support!

Wow. What a classy decision. And smart. The old stuff probably has limited commercial value, but retains its intellectual value.

This policy is the opposite of what many newspapers do with their web sites. Charging per article, and making the transaction cumbersome, has one main result -- people deciding that they can live without reading the newspaper's older material. Result: unless there is a immediate, material need for a particular known article (e.g., reprinting the birth announcements to prove that one was born in a particular place at a particular time), the publications' archives truly down up to the moniker "morgue."

And America's productivity takes another hit. Seriously this is fantastic; actually as a subscriber I presumably had access anyway but opening up the vault, as it were, is great news. I could easily spend hours at a time scrolling through past articles.

Can I assume this will be cross-posted to SABR?