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Hey guys...I don't know if anyone else noticed this since it's not a
huge deal 99% of the time, but for some reason in the 2007 season
(most recent in the database version I have) the convention to include
all pitching seasons and fielding seasons in the batting table whether
or not a batting record for that player/season existed seems to have
stopped and there are missing names. The guy building our search
feature relies on the batting table as the general player record
creator (each player has one record per teamID/stint in the batting
table, which is why he chose to do that), so we were kind of wondering
if any fixes were planned to fill in those missing records or not.

Thanks in advance,

SABR Matt




Tue Oct 7, 2008 8:51 am

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Hey guys...I don't know if anyone else noticed this since it's not a huge deal 99% of the time, but for some reason in the 2007 season (most recent in the...
hackersdienow
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Oct 7, 2008
7:34 pm

We've longed discussed the idea of an APPEARANCES table, so that it captures exactly what it's supposed to capture, rather than taking over the BATTING table...
Tangotiger
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Oct 7, 2008
8:28 pm

That's the way I would approach it as well if I were the guy doing the building of the DB...I highly recommend Lahman/Forman work toward that goal. It sounds...
hackersdienow
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Oct 8, 2008
1:32 pm

... There are no current plans, that's correct. How/when this will be rectified is undetermined. Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball ...
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Oct 8, 2008
1:59 pm

OK...thanks Tom. I'm going to ask our web coder to McGuyver an appearances table...that's the correct way to normalize the database anyway....
hackersdienow
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Oct 9, 2008
12:27 pm
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