tjruane-san wrote:

> 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.

There are a couple of data sets available from NPB (Nippon
Professional Baseball) here:

http://www.japanesebaseball.com/data/

The first one is mine. The above link will allow you to download the
various tables as you want in CSV format, or you can download the
latest (I just updated it today) MySQL dump here:

http://www.japanesebaseball.com/data/proyakyu.sql

The above are for past seasons. I also handle in-season data for
Japan and Korea, but I'm not permitted to make those available to the
public yet.

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Michael Westbay
System Administrator
JapaneseBaseball.com