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Install chadwick with Homebrew
Tools for manipulating baseball data. Version 0.10.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Tools for manipulating baseball data
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Commands and aliases
- cwbox
- cwcomment
- cwdaily
- cwevent
- cwgame
- cwsub
history
Project history and usage
Chadwick is a suite of command-line tools for extracting and transforming baseball play-by-play and boxscore data in the DiamondWare format used by Retrosheet. Its significance is concentrated in the baseball data community rather than general-purpose CLI culture.
Project history
The official documentation says Chadwick is written and maintained by Dr. T. L. Turocy at the Chadwick Baseball Bureau and is copyrighted 2002-2023. The project provides tools such as cwevent, cwgame, cwbox, cwdaily, cwsub, and cwcomment, with several utilities replacing or extending earlier DiamondWare programs.
Adoption history
Chadwick's adoption follows the Retrosheet and baseball research ecosystem: the documentation is meant to be read alongside Retrosheet materials, and acknowledgments cite support or guidance from Sports Reference, the Society for American Baseball Research, XMLTeam, and Retrosheet. The supplied input records Homebrew packaging, while the official README notes that Chadwick may also be available in package managers and provides Windows binaries through GitHub releases.
How it is used
Users run Chadwick tools to turn Retrosheet play-by-play event files and box scores into delimited output, field lists, game-level summaries, substitution data, comments, and daily statistical totals. It is a data-cleaning and extraction toolchain for people who want reproducible command-line access to historical baseball game data.
Why package nerds care
For package maintainers and data-tool collectors, Chadwick is a useful example of a domain-specific C command-line suite that packages well: stable executables, no credentials or service dependency, ReadTheDocs documentation, source releases, and value to a narrow but serious research community.
Timeline
- 2002: Official documentation dates the Chadwick copyright period from 2002.
- 2023: Official documentation records maintenance and copyright through 2023.
- Release metadata: The README identifies 0.10.0 as the documented release and directs users to GitHub releases.
Related projects
- Chadwick is tightly related to Retrosheet and the DiamondWare utilities BEVENT, BGAME, and BOX, which its tools replace or extend. It also sits near Sports Reference and SABR workflows because those communities depend on structured historical baseball data.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
cwbox | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
cwcomment | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
cwdaily | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
cwevent | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
cwgame | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
cwsub | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version0.10.0
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:chadwick |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.10.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://chadwick.readthedocs.io |
| Repository | https://github.com/chadwickbureau/chadwick |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source trail
Generated from repository data
This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- pkg.so package database
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