chadwick ☆

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Description:
Tools for manipulating baseball data

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 0.10.0@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: baseball sabermetrics data-analysis retrosheet cli

Install: brew install chadwick

About:
Chadwick is a suite of command-line tools designed for parsing, analyzing, and manipulating baseball play-by-play and box score data. It provides robust support for the standard Retrosheet event and season data formats, converting them into usable statistics. Its main value proposition is enabling researchers and analysts to efficiently process large historical baseball datasets for sabermetric analysis.

Key Features:

Parses Retrosheet event and box score files
Generates standard baseball statistics (e.g., batting, pitching)
Converts data between various formats (e.g., Retrosheet to CSV)
Includes tools for data validation and roster management

Use Cases:

Processing historical Retrosheet data for sabermetric research
Generating custom statistical reports from play-by-play logs
Validating and cleaning baseball data archives

Alternatives:

Baseball Databank – Provides SQL database dumps of historical data, whereas Chadwick focuses on command-line processing of raw Retrosheet files.
pybaseball – A Python library for fetching modern data via API, while Chadwick is a C++ suite for processing local historical files.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 8:01am		0	VERSION_BUMP	92e07c73