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zeros better than NULLs in pre-classification SF, SH columns?   Message List  
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Re: [baseball-databank] zeros better than NULLs in pre-classification SF, SH columns?

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Donald Parke <parketx@...> wrote:
> Sean, excuse me but SF's aren't counted as AB's - at least by today's
> standards.

But they used to be, so Sean is correct.

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Hi, Working mostly with MySQL type baseball-databank files, I haven't been able to figure why sometimes SF's are zero and sometimes NULL in the pre-1954... 		mmc_cann
Offline Send Email 		Apr 21, 2008
6:25 pm

I looked through these. The majority of the cases are times where the player's AB=0, so they had no SF's. The other 25 cases were cases where a player was...
Sean Forman
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6:31 pm

... The basic rule is that if something is unknown or a measure wasn't tracked at that time, then you should see NULL. If something simply didn't happen but...
Tangotiger
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Send Email 		Apr 21, 2008
6:35 pm

Hi, Working mostly with MySQL type baseball-databank files, I haven't been able to figure why sometimes SF's are zero and sometimes NULL in the pre-1954...
mmc_cann
Offline Send Email 		May 2, 2008
12:17 pm

They are zero because those players had zero AB's and therefore had to have zero SF. In cases where AB > 0 we don't know how many SF they had. sean ... -- ...
Sean Forman
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12:30 pm

Sean, excuse me but SF's aren't counted as AB's - at least by today's standards. Don Parke... ... From: Sean Forman To: baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Donald Parke
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3:20 pm

... But they used to be, so Sean is correct. TT -- drarbiter@... - AMDG Chadwick: Open Source Tools for Baseball Play-by-Play -- ...
Theodore Turocy
arb1ter
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3:21 pm

Sean, never mind - I didn't read all your mail correctly, Sorry, don... ... From: Sean Forman To: baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com Sent: 5/2/2008 7:30:16 AM ...
Donald Parke
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