Any more discussion or concerns? -- Sincerely, Sean Forman Baseball Stats! http://www.Baseball-Reference.com/...
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Paul Wendt
pgw02472
Sep 5, 2005 3:39 am
... And Sean Forman later asked, " Any more discussion or concerns? " No concerns here, regarding the governance structure. Thanks for asking again, Sean. ... ...
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SABRscouts@...
rockymtnsabr
Sep 5, 2005 5:36 pm
In a message dated 9/5/2005 4:14:25 A.M. MDT, baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com writes: ... I agree, I've been thinking in terms of examples like this one. ...
I am requesting nominees to serve on the board of directors for the baseball-databank. As previous and current maintainers of the bdb, Sean Lahman and myself...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Sep 18, 2005 9:54 pm
-- Sincerely, Sean Forman Baseball Stats! http://www.Baseball-Reference.com/...
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Chris Long
vertex_operator
Sep 20, 2005 11:40 pm
Does anyone know of a good, reliable spreadsheet containing information on minor league teams, parks, years, MLB organization, etc.? I was hoping for...
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tangotiger
Sep 21, 2005 2:22 pm
Try here: http://www.geocities.com/big_bunko/ As well, it would be nice if people do have access to minor league data, or compiles it, or has links, or ...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Sep 24, 2005 8:46 pm
http://cgi.ebay.com/WOW-Sporting-News-Baseball-Guides-1955-1990_W0QQitemZ5246236666QQcategoryZ73429QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem A complete collection...
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parked43
Sep 24, 2005 11:31 pm
Sorry if this has been answered but will the Lahman ID for the master be used in future release of BDB? Also, will the tables with auto-increments IDs just be...
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Michael Hurley
tmhjr1918
Sep 25, 2005 4:14 am
Mine go back to and are complte until 1929, although TSN didn't get into the business until about 1946. My collection includes, besides TSN, Reach, Spalding,...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Sep 25, 2005 1:19 pm
... Don, Once we finish the governance board this will be one of the first orders of business. Deciding where to go from where we are now. So I would hold...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Sep 25, 2005 1:19 pm
... I have a complete set back to 1967 and then I'm missing about 8 back to the 1943 TSN guide. in the edition from the offseason when the Dodgers and Giants...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Sep 25, 2005 1:31 pm
I'll work up a ballot today or tomorrow and we'll have an election for six or seven days. Perhaps by the end of the season. ;-) -- Sincerely, Sean Forman ...
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nacc_whatever
Sep 26, 2005 8:00 pm
I've been fascinated with the whole idea about a publically available database of baseball information when I happened upon the BDB. Looks like a worthwhile...
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tangotiger
Sep 27, 2005 3:41 pm
The files are available in text format, as well as having the create table in sql form. I don't think we should be publishing the dump files in MySQL,...
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nacc_whatever
Sep 28, 2005 2:08 am
I'm not advocating having dump files published for all the various platforms you mentioned. I was asking if the schema (the structure) was going to be...
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Derek Adair
D_Adair
Sep 28, 2005 2:48 am
... I believe it's very likely we'll be producing structure statements ready for import into Postgres with the direction we're heading. That said, if someone...
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tangotiger
Sep 28, 2005 2:29 pm
Nacc, Ok, that clears it up. In that case, to make something "agnostic";, you really need to have a standard that is agnostic. The best way to do this is to...
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nacc_whatever
Sep 28, 2005 11:45 pm
Tom, I think that's a good idea. I realise I was stretching with the idea of making the schema database "agnostic";. Derek correctly pointed out that making...
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Derek Adair
D_Adair
Oct 3, 2005 6:23 am
On the databank homepage, a number of tables seem to be missing from the most up-to-date release, in both the CSV and SQL archives. They do exist in the...
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Derek Adair
D_Adair
Oct 5, 2005 6:10 am
The DoB entry in the databank is incorrect for Mike Mattimore (ID 8983). It's currently set as August 1858, 1859. Obviously, this is incorrect. Retrosheet...
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baseball-databank@yah...
Oct 10, 2005 3:45 pm
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the baseball-databank group: Test Poll: Who do you vote for? o A o B o C o D o E o F o G o H o I o J To...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Oct 10, 2005 4:08 pm
Sorry for the long delay in posting the vote. I'm going to post the ballot tomorrow or Wednesday. It will be on the yahoo group website. The polling method...
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Derek Adair
D_Adair
Oct 10, 2005 4:30 pm
... In the interest of keeping things simple, I'd go for #1. I don't see any obvious drawbacks. Regards, Derek...
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Brent Johnson
rock2it1977
Oct 10, 2005 8:38 pm
Hi All I am Brent Johnson. I am currently a Master's student of Statistics at Kansas State U. Since sports and data analysis are a couple of my favorite...
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westbaystars
Oct 10, 2005 11:24 pm
... I like to follow the "Keep it Simple" rule, so #1 works for me. -- Michael Westbay Writer/System Administrator http://JapaneseBaseball.com Public Key:...
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Joel Dinda
joeldinda
Oct 10, 2005 11:41 pm
Another "Keep it simple" vote. joel...
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P Kreutzer
pkreutzer
Oct 11, 2005 12:11 pm
Agreed. We shouldn't have to worry about overvotes and undervotes. The very thought of which make my skin crawl. On 11 Oct 2005 09:06:16 -0000,...
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dsreyn
Oct 11, 2005 2:35 pm
I've been doing some work with fielding leaders (career and single season). For various reasons, I'm treating outfield as one position. The separate LF/CF/RF...
