--- In baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com, "Tangotiger" <tom@...> wrote:
> In any case, Lahman can provide the final word if he's around.

Tom is correct. The underlying data is identical. The output formats are what's
different.

Sean Forman and I formed the baseball databank to help coordinate research and
avoid duplication of effort, as well as to avoid divergence and differences with
the underlying data.

The baseball databank primarily serves folks with some degree of dexterity for
working with relational databases. While this probably represents the majority
of researchers, it's a smaller percentage of the overall users of the data.
People without such skills are better able to use the data in MS Access or in
the flat file spreadsheets. These also are used by third-party interfaces
including baseball sims.

But the root source for everything I distribute is the databank's SQL version.

Regards,
Sean Lahman