SABR is planning on revising their booklet on how to do baseball research and
putting it on-line. One of the sections in the guide will be a discussion of
statistical databases and websites. I was asked to work on this section, but my
experience dealing with baseball databases (convert Pete Palmer's 1994 Total
Baseball CD to my own format) is probably not going to be very helpful. So I was
looking for some advice and this seemed like a good place to start.

I guess my first question is whether anyone on this list would like to write (or
point me to a FAQ or existing guide) a tutorial on how to use Baseball
Databank's data?

Also, are there other statistical resources on the internet we should be
recommending (this should include both free and pay sites)? Ones that come to
mind right away are baseball-reference's play index and Pat Doyle's professional
baseball players DB, but I'm sure there are several others.

Any and all help/advice is appreciated.
Thanks for your patience.
Tom Ruane