Correction: Right-hand side of the screen. Clearly, I need more coffee.

good to see you again, hope all is well on your side of the county
GL

"FYI: You can also find the temperature (as well as wind conditions) at www.covers.com. Just click through to MLB, then pick the game match up, and then scroll down. You will see the weather conditions about two-thirds of the way down the screen on the left-hand side."


I think you mean on the right hand side, or at least that is where I am seeing it (not trying to be a wise-ass, just not sure if there's some setting somewhere that would change where it shows up).


This is a good place to check, since the temperature which eventually goes into the database comes from the box score at covers.

Covers says that they get the temperature from accuweather.com

Unfortunately (unless someone knows differently - I looked around the accuweather site and also called and asked), accuweather.com doesn't have any option to get the weather for MLB games other than if you know the zip code, or city for each MLB team's stadium.

I know these can be documented, I was just hoping that they might have something similar to weather.com where you can look at the weather specifically for upcoming MLB games, and click on the detailed forecast link).


Anyway, that's probably more info than anyone wanted, but just sharing what I've learned while looking into this.

Bart

And now I see that you corrected it already.

D'OH!

Apparently I need some caffeine as well.

this cant be right?

http://tinyurl.com/3s4baaq

SU: 659-144 (3.2 rpg) average line: -135 / +125 on / against: +$46,675 / -$48,141 ROI: +43.2% / -59.9%

RL: 535-253 (1.8 rpg) average line: +143 / -155 on / against: +$51,384 / -$57,924 ROI: +63.9% / -46.8%

what am i doing wrong?

instead of runs=4 it should be p:runs=4

Just to make this somewhat more convoluted, I just discovered that there is a value for temperature named

Indoors


As opposed to having an actual number value, games played in a retractable dome (or non-retractable in the case of Tropicana field), I'm guessing when the dome is in place, fall into this category.

Here's a list of home games and years where I see anything listed for Indoors.

MIN 2008
TAM 2004-present
WAS 2004
ARI 2004, 2005, 2007
MIL 2004, 2005, 2008-present
TOR 2004-present, but none in 2009
HOU 2009


So, these games are not included in the prior numbers.

The good news is that they have been slightly above breakeven,


71-86 +420

with the more recent seasons doing better than the first few

2010 08-05 +535
2009 10-09 +310
2008 10-11 +070
2007 15-12 +725
2006 06-13 -435
2005 13-20 -395
2004 09-16 -390


Anyway, in case it comes up, thought it was worth mentioning.

You can find the game time temperature easier with these zip codes

BALLPARK ZIP FOR TEMP

ARZ	85004

ATL	30315

BAL 	21201

BOS	02115

CIN	45202

CLE	44115

COL	80205

CUB	60613

CWS	60616

DET	48201

FLA	33056

HOU	77002

KC	64141

LAA	92806

LAD	90012

MIL	53214

MIN	55403

NYM	11368

NYY	10451

OAK	94621

PHI	19148

PIT	15212

SDG	92101

SEA	98134

SFO	94107

STL	63102

TB	33705

TEX	76011

TOR	M5V1J1

WAS	20003

Is this the Fav (-) or Dog (+) line you refer to?
How about exact 180, not qualified?

1. line of less than 180

I have the following plays for today (4/3) with the gametime temperature forecast from weather.com:

Seattle - 58 degrees at OAK
Pittsburgh - 52 degrees at CHC
Cleveland - 45 degrees at home
Washington - 51 degrees at home
Milwaukee - 56/57 degrees at CIN
Arizona - 56 degrees at COL

No play of the following b/c of temp:
San Francisco - 63 degrees at LAD
New York Mets - 84 degrees at FLA
Baltimore - indoors at the Trop



http://www.weather.com/outlook/events/mlb/resultdetails?query=EVENTS_DATE_AND_CATEGORY&attrib=be

I checked weather.com in Ballpark's ZIP code HOURLY Temp forecast (time listed are local time)
had the following plays, and 'possible' plays (fav line at -180)

Above poster listed OAK as play but I checked 1pm local time OAK should be 60F that will require final check on temp when close to game time.
Same to CIN, checked 60F at game time temp.

APR Dogs Plays
NL
ATL/WAS (ATL-155, Y-DIV, N-S/O, 54F)
AL
CWS/CLE (CWS-140, Y-DIV, N-S/O, 47F)

APR Dogs 'Possible' Plays b/c Fav line is right at -180
NL
PIT/CUB (CUB-180, Y-DIV, N-S/O, 56F)
ARZ/COL (COL-180, Y-DIV, N-S/O, 48F)

I had the impression that line less than 180 meant the dog had to be under 180.

Usually the Fav line is listed, and then books will have slightly different line on dogs, example DIME Lines, thus make it hard to decide dog's (+) line. So I think Azmat means Fav line has to be less than -180 ... JMHO

And I think the search / query formula should be based on Fav 180

ANOTHER Q : Is DOOM INDOOR stadium a play or not, as outdoor temp won't affect indoor temp? Some with top open / close.

If you look at the link provided and scroll through last years plays:

04-17-2010 away Royals Meche - R Twins Blackburn - R

This was one of the qualifiers. KC were +170 that day and Twins were actually -182 which means if the plays were based on fav -180 or lower this would not appear as a play in my opinion.

Again I might be mistaking cause this is not my system.

Lines are coming down ...

I think the 180 refers to the dog line. With that said, I see Cubs at -175 right now so I played the Pirates today.

FYI:


The betting public is correct when moving the money line in PITTSBURGH games 0% of the time since 1997. (0-880, 12.5 units)

0-880 won't lose 12.5 units that small. Must be error. And usually there are (-) or (+) in front, but no such symbol left of this 12.5

Milwaukee may be a scratch today as the current temp (according to weather.com is 59 degrees.

WCPO weather is showing 54 degrees, and the local FOX19 is showing 58 degrees.

All three above are forecasting the temperature to be 61 at 1:00 pm local time.

I find that Pirate stat of 0-880 hard to believe. Is it meant as a joke?