... And Sean Forman later asked, " Any more discussion or concerns? " No concerns here, regarding the governance structure. Thanks for asking again, Sean. ... ...
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...
Does anyone know of a good, reliable spreadsheet containing information on minor league teams, parks, years, MLB organization, etc.? I was hoping for...
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 ...
http://cgi.ebay.com/WOW-Sporting-News-Baseball-Guides-1955-1990_W0QQitemZ5246236666QQcategoryZ73429QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem A complete collection...
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...
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,...
... 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...
... 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...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
... I like to follow the "Keep it Simple" rule, so #1 works for me. -- Michael Westbay Writer/System Administrator http://JapaneseBaseball.com Public Key:...
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...