I think this was bounced the first time ... I would steer clear of copying an existing id system, be it retrosheet, STATS or Elias. Using their system would...
From the standpoint of an Oracle programmer/dba there is a difference between a 0 and a NULL. A zero is a value. It's value is ZERO. A null by definition is...
Hi, Working mostly with MySQL type baseball-databank files, I haven't been able to figure why sometimes SF's are zero and sometimes NULL in the pre-1954...
I've created a separate Yahoo group, so as to not interfere with Retrolist or Baseball-Databank. This purpose of this new group is to yada yada yada a SQL...
I didn't quite make it by opening day, but there is a new set of files I uploaded this morning. The fielding table has a number of important new additions. ...
This article reminded me quite a bit of how 'open' (vs. closed) is viewed in sabermetric circles: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=science-2-point-0...
I am a PHP developer and I think it would be really cool to use Propel (http://propel.phpdb.org/trac/) with the statistics provided by BDB either for personal...
I haven't received a response, and it appears that this message is not in the archives, so I am resending. *** In order to get the BDB Board rolling, we...
Has anyone developed webservices that web masters could use vs. downloading and managing their own database? If not I would like to volunteer to do this. It...
I found something interesting while rooting around in Google recently. The MLB has, in a publicly accessible portion of their site, all their reports and notes...
Is there still a plan to change to numeric table IDs such as creating an ID for team+lge+year for the batting, pitching, fielding tables instead of separate...
Last year I picked up my copies on eBay, and I'm sure I'll be able to do the same this year. However, it seems like it should be possible to purchase these...
I see that defensive GS information is missing for all players in 2007. Can we expect to see this corrected in a new version? (I'm working with the mysql...
Sports Reference (operators of Baseball-Reference.com) in Philadelphia is looking to hire paid interns for computer programming positions this summer. Details...
I have uploaded (am uploading) the 2005 files. There is a mysql file and a csv file as well. I would welcome an access file if and when someone is able to...
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I wasn't able to find the answer on the site or FAQ, but what is the different between the Baseball-Databank database...
I think I've mentioned this for a couple of years, but the 1891 AA Philadelphia team has a Team ID of PH4, but I believe it really should be PHQ. The...
Just an FYI... BDB is using "LAA" as the Angels team ID, starting in 2005. Retrosheet has continued to use "ANA". For the years 1961-1964, both however use...
Two of the lines in FieldingOF do not have corresponding lines in Fielding "lehanmi01",1884,1,1,0,0 "geisem01",1882,1,0,3,2 "lehanmi01",1884,1,1,0,0 Mike...
Conversation on this mailing list has gotten pretty spotty, and I was wondering if there is any plan for an updated BD database? I've got hitters and pitchers...
A few years ago, somebody discovered 2 "missing" 1941 walks for Ted Williams that had erroneously been uncredited. So Williams had 147 walks for the season,...
Dear Baseball Data Bank, My name is Rick. I live in Chicago (actually Northlake) with my family. I've just written 2 baseball books- one on 19th Century...
Hi guys, I apologize for the stat-based question. If this is not the appropriate place, if you could point me in the right direction I would greatly apprecate...
Mark Kiger is not in the MASTER (the version that I have anyway). He played in the 2006 post-season, but not regular season. Tom ... The 2007 Fans' Scouting...
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