For those of you who have been following High Heat Stats on Twitter, you’ll already get how this game works. For those who haven’t, here’s the deal.
I am challenging our Twitter followers to come up with a player who I cannot get to appear at the top of a Play Index search. The first person who can come up with such a player wins a 1-year subscription (or subscription extension) to Baseball-Reference.com’s Play Index.
If you’re not familiar with the Play Index, you should definitely follow @HighHeatStats, as I’ll answer every challenge with a link to a search result so you can see how we find lots of different things.
Here are the rules:
1) Submitted players must have appeared in MLB in at least 3 different seasons OR 250 total plate appearances(over 1 or more seasons) OR 100 innings pitched (over 1 or more seasons).
2) The challenge will be the first eligible player name tweeted @HighHeatStats after this post, or after I successfully respond to the previous challenge. Your tweet should also include the word “challenge”, or “PI”, or something so I know you are participating.
3) To win, you must be a follower of @HighHeatStats
4) I will limit my challenge responses to players who had the most or the fewest of something (or was the most recent or distant in a certain timeframe) out of a group of at least 10 players. I will not resort to stuff like “so-and-so was the only player with 26 doubles, 3 triples, 72 walks, and 86 strikeouts in the 1986 season”, which is really lame.
5) I will acknowledge the current challenge. Any other player names submitted after that will be ignored until I solve the current challenge. I make no promises about how much time I’ll take to respond, but if I can’t get an answer within 30 minutes of actual working time, I’ll declare a winner.
For readers of this blog, you need to be on Twitter to participate. Comments on this post will be ignored, with respect to the actual contest itself.
Let’s go…first person to tweet a name is our first contestant! Let’s give away this prize.
