... I don't disagree that the purpose of this group should be to the high end developer. << That isn't true and I missed it if anyone said it. ... That's...
2986
Paul Wendt
pgw02472
Jan 27, 2006 9:53 pm
... I'm an end user but am familiar with developing small databases. One DB I use holds data from a baseball simulation game that I play. I use numeric keys...
2987
Paul Wendt
pgw02472
Jan 27, 2006 10:10 pm
... anyone know the status of these ventures? Recently, I've completed minor league hitting, pitching and fielding stats for AAA and AA for the 1961 season...
2988
KJOK
kjokbaseball
Jan 27, 2006 10:13 pm
"Lastname, firstname, DOB . . . will each appear only once in the database (none being a key), in the Master table or one that replaces the current Master in...
2989
KJOK
kjokbaseball
Jan 27, 2006 10:20 pm
"They have all worked for years and I guess all but Bob R recognize that they probably can't finish in this lifetime." I'm going to apologize up front for...
2990
Michael Westbay
westbaystars
Jan 27, 2006 11:32 pm
As Tangotiger stated, "it's not if, but when." Many concerns were brought up regarding the move to numeric keys, but the most important one to me would be the...
2991
Anthony Giacalone
anthonygiaca...
Jan 28, 2006 2:35 am
... Yeah. That's the key, Kevin. I have ability to do almost any minor league season from 1961 to the present. However, I don't want to redo what someone...
2992
Sean Forman
sforman71
Jan 28, 2006 4:53 pm
This would be absolutely no problem. I actually have a program that matches names to potential br and lahman id's available on my website. I don't have DOB...
2993
tjruane
Jan 29, 2006 2:09 pm
... Why would you expect this to appear only once? Even among major league baseball players this is not unique. For an example, see Brady (first name and...
2994
Anthony Giacalone
anthonygiaca...
Jan 29, 2006 3:21 pm
... No. However, you can solve this pretty easily by cross-checking with the Baseball Registers....
2995
tjruane
Jan 29, 2006 4:24 pm
... That only helps with the small minority of players who appeared in the Baseball Register after appearing in the minor leagues. The vast majority of name...
2996
KJOK
kjokbaseball
Jan 29, 2006 10:25 pm
Tom: Yes, you're correct, but my point was that there is will usually be SOME unique combination of data that would identify one Brady from another even if we...
2997
Sean Forman
sforman71
Jan 29, 2006 10:33 pm
... 1. Do we have the administrative front end (web site) in place to ... I have set up a postgresql database for the board members with usernames and ...
2998
Sean Forman
sforman71
Jan 29, 2006 10:35 pm
Charles, Thank you for the suggestion. Those keys are based on STATS incorporated's data feed. I would be uncomfortable using another companies id system for...
2999
Sean Forman
sforman71
Jan 29, 2006 10:42 pm
... When this happens to the program I've linked to it tells you that it matched multiple times. Then it takes some handwork to work out those cases,...
3000
tjruane
Jan 30, 2006 4:25 pm
... In the new edition of SABR's Biographical data there are two Bradys, about whom no other information is known. One played for Chicago in 1875 and the...
3001
Paul Wendt
pgw02472
Feb 4, 2006 5:06 am
baseball-databank article number 3000 is another informative one by Tom Ruane. ... In the new edition of SABR's Biographical data there are two Bradys, about...
3002
Paul Wendt
pgw02472
Feb 4, 2006 5:21 am
... I have ability to do almost any minor league season from 1961 to the present. However, I don't want to redo what someone has already done. I'd rather...
3003
Sean Forman
sforman71
Feb 8, 2006 2:53 am
I would like to rescind my proposal. I now see that it was a bit too cavalier and hasty and that the board should take a bit more time to discuss procedures...
3004
Sean Lahman
anson2995
Feb 8, 2006 7:25 pm
Passing on these errors that were reported to me by Michael Rusignola... -- ... Giles was ... below for ... Garcia: he...
3005
Sean Forman
sforman71
Feb 9, 2006 3:48 am
I don't think he is right about these. I think SABR has the other numbers. I'll have to doublecheck. ESPN is not infallible. (if that is in fact one of his...
3006
Sean Lahman
anson2995
Feb 9, 2006 6:02 pm
... SABR has 1/21, the Padres media guide says 1/20. The problem of course is that some of these sources get their info from our database, so it's hard to...
3007
P Kreutzer
pkreutzer
Feb 9, 2006 6:26 pm
The dates Rusignola reports are the same as those in the MLB bio info included in their stats dump. On 9 Feb 2006 17:50:54 -0000,...
3008
Sean Lahman
anson2995
Feb 9, 2006 7:36 pm
Mike Uhlenkamp of the Padres confirms that Giles was born on January 20. Regards, Sean Lahman...
3009
tangotiger
Feb 18, 2006 2:24 pm
The Marcel the Monkey Forecasting System, or the Marcels for short, is a simple forecasting system... so simple, a monkey could do it. For those interested in...
3010
jdpeterman
Feb 22, 2006 7:14 pm
Please forgive this question if it's not the correct type appropriate for discussion. I'm new here and not quite up to speed on the type of queries one can...
3011
KJOK
kjokbaseball
Feb 22, 2006 7:46 pm
The only place I know to get such data is at Retrosheet: www.retrosheet.org I believe within the next month they'll have this data all the way back to 1958 for...
3012
Ben Matasar
benmatasar
Feb 26, 2006 10:14 pm
Guys, I'm goofing around a bit with the baseball-databank data and one of the things I did was convert the data from MySQL to SQLite, so that I could use it on...
3013
Keith Hemmelman
khemmelman
Feb 28, 2006 3:28 am
I've updated my Hall of Fame spreadsheet. I added a worksheet to include the just completed 2006 Negro Leagues and Pre-Negro Leagues Special Election results....
3014
Holmes, Dan
hof_boone
Feb 28, 2006 2:55 pm
The actual results will not be released. ... for election, but I >>>>>>>>couldn't find the actual vote results. If anyone has seen those, I would appreciate...
