for the playing career of John McGraw. The current record shows his last season as 1906. However, on June 18, 1907, he pinch-ran for Roger Bresnahan in the...
I recently discovered that Joe Cronin's height is not given in the Master table, and this got me wondering about how many players are missing either height or...
Evidently, Ben Baumer <bbaumer@...> is a database professional employed by the NY Mets. ... I use the BDB everyday, as well as more complex databases...
The Red Sox played 162 games in 2004, but the games started in the fielding table for the 2004 Red Sox add to 161 (Cabrera - 57, Reese - 56, Garciaparra - 37,...
See http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/baseball-databank/message/2386 and http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/baseball-databank/message/2397 for a list of...
While spot-checking some things, I noticed a discrepancy in the 1975 Red Sox ALCS batting statistics. According to BDB (and Retrosheet), Cecil Cooper had 4...
Sporting News, NY Times, Washington Post, etc. all show Cooper with a sacrifice in the following day boxscore, so I would say that the official scorer gave him...
I'd be quite interested in participating in this process. I'm a mathematician and statistician who works for the Padres, and I use PostgreSQL and Linux daily. ...
Note: This message is being cross-posted to retrolist and baseball-databank. ... I'm going to be doing the Fans' Scouting Report for a third year, but this...
I'm almost positive the 02, 03, and 04 schedules are in the files section of the baseball-databank group (or maybe Retrolist). I think as well, if you go to...
... Exactly. I realize that I might be in the minority as far as having a use for some of this stuff, but...well I can't really think of a way to finish that...
There seems to be a problem with some of the fields for 2004 in the PitchingPost table. The problem fields are 16 (earned runs), 17 (home runs), and 27 (runs...
I think I know what may have happened. Prior to 2003, the Pitchingpost table had only limited HR and R data. When I added the 2003 Post-season pitching data to...
I received multiple responses to my earlier request. I now have what I need. Many thanks for those that came through. Tom ... http://www.tangotiger.net ... ...
Hello all, The Master file is missing about 395 retroIDs. I found about 180 of them in a file posted by Michael M. last April. I'm still missing 208. Does...
If anyone is interested, a revised 2004 postseason pitching data set is available at http://alum.wpi.edu/~dreynolds/baseball/baseball.html in the "Database...
I was able to match them up today. 390 of the missing retroIDs are from 2003 & 2004. I used the newly posted RetroData to get these IDs. Four of the missing...
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He is credited with the same first and last day played, but played 8 games. -- Sincerely, Sean Forman Baseball Stats! http://www.Baseball-Reference.com/...
I've just moved the databank over to a new server and I'm working on setting up an update system for the BDB to distribute the keys to the db, as it were. I'm...
I believe his last game played should be Sept. 16th (hard to tell for sure as Sporting News is hard to read in 1892...) It appears Delahanty was injured for...
... <discussion of DB and triggers elided> I'm coming late to this party, and so my thoughts may have already been suggested and rejected for good reason, but...
Ted, how about changing your focus, maybe 90 degrees? ... A DBMS is many things, and you don't have to discard one because you don't like parts of it. For...
Oh, I also forgot about referential integrity. You don't want to see LAN in one table and LAD in another, when referring to the Dodgers. You don't want to...
... I think you misapprehended the point I was trying to make. I'll try again. The philosophical concept is that the data is independent of the tools used to...
... degrees That's a perspective not a focus, but Ted asked for it. ... I suspect that if the DBMS-embodied data is official, there will be times when the...
... [glossary: cvs, concurrent versioning system (version control) csv, comma-separated values (plain text data files)] Ted, I think I understand your...
... This isn't quite what I had in mind. I would say that the maintenance and storage of the data would be done in the DBMS. The data would then be available...
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