Screwball News And Updates

November 21st

Screwball has raised pre-seed funding from Underscore VC and Character Capital to continue to build and expand the smartest sports search engine. See detailed coverage in this Sportico article.

September 24th

Streaks: Screwball is now the most powerful streak search engine for statistics, handling searches like "Which [player,team,etc] had the most straight [seasons,games,at bats,plate appearances] with a something"

Here are some example streak searches:

• Seasons
• Which team has the most straight seasons with a winning record?
• Games
• Which team has the most straight games with a grand slam?
• Which batter has the longest active hitting streak?
• At Bats
• Which pitcher has gone the most straight at-bats without giving up a hit?
• Plate Appearances
• Which batter has the most straight PAs with a hit?

Additionally, streak searches are fast on Screwball, delivering you results anywhere from 10-20x faster than competing sites.

August 14th

Spans, Spans, Spans: Screwball is now the most powerful span search engine for statistics, handling searches like "Which [player,team,etc] had the most [hits,strikeouts,etc] in any span of [number] [seasons,games,at bats,plate appearances]."

Here are some example searches based on the type of span:

• Seasons
• Which team has the best winning percentage over any 5 season stretch?
• Which team has the worst winning percentage over any 2 season span?
• Games
• Which batter has the most strikeouts in any 3 game span?
• Which batter has the most doubles the first 50 games with their team?
• At Bats
• Which batter has the most homers in any span of 10 consecutive at bats?
• Plate Appearances
• Which batter has drawn the most walks in any 20 consecutive PAs?

June 11th

Search History is now enabled for all logged-in users on every search. This means both your query, and a snapshot of the exact results you recieved, are saved permanently in your search history, which you can review and access anytime in the future.

To see your full search history, just click on search history from your user menu, which will list all your searches along with their timestamps. You can then click on any search to see a snapshot of the results you saw when you originally did the search. Just click "View Live Results" to re-run the search on the most up-to-date data.

If a search you do has been saved, you will know because you'll see the "snapshot" icon appear on the search results. You can click this icon to show the search history of that specific query over time.

If you'd like to remove any of your searches, you can delete them on your search history or disable the search history altogether on your search settings page.

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June 1st

Logged-in users now have the power to customize their search results. For anybody with a registered account, you can now go to your custom search settings page and start customizing how your search results appear.

Currently you can adjust these two settings, but more detailed customizations are coming. Screwball's goal is to get you the answer you want as quickly and conveniently as possible, which often means you'll end up on another site.

With that in mind, Screwball can auto-generate boxscore links to Baseball Reference and FanGraphs for any Game or Plate Appearance search results, so you can easily drill more deeply into the results. This feature is only available to logged-in users, and is on by default. It can be disabled in search settings: