What is Chadwick?

Chadwick is an Open Source software project devoted providing quality tools for collecting and analyzing baseball statistical data from the play-by-play level.

Chadwick is intended as a full-featured scorebook application. In addition, Chadwick's file format is fully compatible with the play-by-play data files available from Retrosheet. For a quick start, you can simply load one of the league ZIP files provided by Retrosheet.

The Chadwick engine, which is licenced under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), is suitable for use not only in scorebook applications, but also in baseball games and simulations for statistics generation and tracking.

Who is Chadwick?

Henry Chadwick, called the "Father of the Boxscore", was a prolific journalist and important figure in the formative years of baseball in the late nineteenth century. Among his many contributions to the game was the first codified system of annotating the events in a base ball game. This system influences us still today; the choice of the symbol K for strikeout, for example, is credited to Chadwick. Chadwick also first printed an expanded box score in 1859, which was the model for its later development as a standard summary of a game. Baseball statistics have come a long way since those days, but Chadwick's seminal role made him a natural choice to be the namesake of this project.