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Re: [baseball-databank] Re: 2007 records missing...

> 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 like you're saying, however, that there are no plans
> to make the batting table rules consistent...which means I should be
> telling our web search/sort builder to prepare other methods for
> fixing the irregularities. Do I have that correct?
>
>

There are no current plans, that's correct. How/when this will be
rectified is undetermined.

Tom


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Wed Oct 8, 2008 1:57 pm

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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...
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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 ...
Tangotiger
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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....
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Oct 9, 2008
12:27 pm
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