Gameday 2007 links

by StLHugo on Apr 3, 2008 9:01 AM EDT

Since everyone seems to be wanting the 2007 version of gameday I wanted to give you to tools to "build your own" links for every game.

Today's game should be the following:

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/y2007/gd.html?2008_04_03_colmlb_slnmlb_1&brand=mlb

If you look at this link you will see 2 key elements, first is the date, second is the teams. To make a working link you must change those fields to match the game you want.

Team Names are an oddity as well. Notice we are not stl but are in fact sln (st louis national league). For cities with two teams you usually find the use of A and N (NYA and NYN I beleive are the Yanks and Mets).

If you find an odd name please post it.

Teams I know for sure are:
mil=Brewers
chn=Cubs
cin=Reds
pit=Pirates
hou=Astros

col=Rockies

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Team names

They use the retrosheet standard. Here's a little (broken due to converted whitespace) python code that was part of the script I used for making the spring training links—all the MLB teamcodes are in there.

If I had a public webserver with CGI, I'd set something up to auto-generate these links. Alas.

def team_code(name):
# Input: Team Name per ESPN standards
# Output: six character team code
if name == 'LA Angels':
return 'anamlb'
elif name == 'Baltimore':
return 'balmlb'
elif name == 'Boston':
return 'bosmlb'
elif name == 'Chicago Sox':
return 'chamlb'
elif name == 'Cleveland':
return 'clemlb'
elif name == 'Detroit':
return 'detmlb'
elif name == 'Kansas City':
return 'kcamlb'
elif name == 'Minnesota':
return 'minmlb'
elif name == 'NY Yankees':
return 'nyamlb'
elif name == 'Oakland':
return 'oakmlb'
elif name =='Seattle':
return 'seamlb'
elif name == 'Tampa Bay':
return 'tbamlb'
elif name == 'Texas':
return 'texmlb'
elif name == 'Toronto':
return 'tormlb'
elif name == 'Arizona':
return 'arimlb'
elif name == 'Atlanta':
return 'atlmlb'
elif name == 'Chicago Cubs':
return 'chnmlb'
elif name == 'Cincinnati':
return 'cinmlb'
elif name == 'Colorado':
return 'colmlb'
elif name == 'Florida':
return 'flomlb'
elif name == 'Houston':
return 'houmlb'
elif name == 'LA Dodgers':
return 'lanmlb'
elif name == 'Milwaukee':
return 'milmlb'
elif name == 'NY Mets':
return 'nynmlb'
elif name == 'Philadelphia':
return 'phimlb'
elif name == 'Pittsburgh':
return 'pitmlb'
elif name == 'San Diego':
return 'sdnmlb'
elif name == 'San Francisco':
return 'sfnmlb'
elif name == 'St. Louis':
return 'slnmlb'
elif name == 'Washington':
return 'wasmlb'
else:
return 'errmlb'