I don't mean to be a complainer, but in case this has inadvertently
slipped through the cracks - some of the postseason data is incomplete
for recent seasons. Specifically, BattingPost and PitchingPost both
have a bunch of null entries for 2005, 2006, and 2007 (differing
fields depending on the specific year).

Doug

--- In baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com, "Tangotiger" <tom@...> wrote:
>
> > There's actually an updated database posted at
> > http://www.baseball-databank.org/ I noticed it the other day.
I'm not
> > sure
> > if it's the final release for this year or not.
> >
>
> That is a Beta release. It has a couple of minor slight errors that
will
> be corrected by the time the main release is announced. (From what I
> remember, there's an invalid "final game date" in one Master field,
one of
> the text files has an invalid end of file record, and Roland Hemond
is not
> a player. )
>
> As for missing awards, the file was posted just prior to some of the
major
> award announcements, so that explains that.
>
> As for the "BATTING" table. The original intent of the BATTING
table from
> years ago was to match the Official rules (all games goes in the Batting
> record, even if they didn't come to bat). Since our release is a
> Developer/Admin release (not end user), we are not constrained by these
> business rules. Eventually, we will have a ROSTER or APPEARANCE table,
> which will properly catalogue all the games played. From this Admin
> table, you'll be able to generate the data as you see fit, including an
> "Official rules" version.
>
> Tom
>