I think this has been brought up in the past but I can't find it for the life of me. The Hall of Fame website, Baseballlibrary.com and a few other places say...
Hi Bill - Clarke's numbers, and more notably Cap Anson's, were adjusted by the editors of the McMillan Baseball Encyclopedia based on some really sloppy...
I have released the source code to one of my Markov programs, which you can find here: http://www.tangotiger.net/markov.html Anyone who wants to understand run...
Hello, I have uploaded the 2006 stats. Consider this a first pass. I think they are correct and they have been vetted on baseball-reference for a few weeks ...
Kevin, did the last field in each row import properly when you directly imported the CSV files into Access? (If so, what version of Access are your running?)...
You might want to check into this but it appears to me that Dioner Navarro's stints for 2006 are backwards. ... think they ... few weeks ... SABR bio and ... ...
Keith: It does look like GIDP, the very last field of the batting and battingpost tables, and also the last field in the pitchingpost table, did not populate....
Forgive the possibly stupid question, but where can I download the 2006 stats? I have looked in the "files" and "database" sections of this group to no avail....
I just realized that I didn't provide any links here. Sorry about that. The databases are located at http://www.baseball-databank.org/ There is a mysql...
I've been able to import the larger tables such as the fielding or batting tables with more than 65536 rows into Excel by using the code at this site: ...
There's a problem with the 2004 postseason pitching data in the latest release. Home runs allowed are incorrect - it's just a repeat of the earned runs entry....
Ed Sprague is a "return to team" case in 2000. He started the season with the Padres and was traded to the Red Sox on 6/30. He was then released by the Red...
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Yes, Sprague is a return to team. http://world.std.com/~pgw/19c/return.to.team.html Does anyone know the returns to team for 2005 or 2006? I will add them to...
No, the Red Sox traded Mirabelli to the Padres in the off-season (12/7/2005) for Mark Loretta, so he only had one stint with the Red Sox in 2006. Doug ... Red...
Novice questions here I should know the answer to. What is the difference between the BDB stats and those from Baseball Archive? Are they from the same...
You need to learn the Baseball Almanac policy. Ask editor Sean Holtz. He sometimes revises biographical data. Playing data, I don't know. Paul Wendt...
Baseball ALMANAC is a whole 'nother issue. Baseball ARCHIVE (www.baseball1.com) is I believe still run by Sean Lahman (too many Seans?). There MAY be some...
It's possible I messed something up during my import of the CSV files into my Access database, but I believe there are two records in the Salary table in which...
morish01 is probably Shinji Mori of Tampa Bay. He was likely signed for $500,000 out of Japan, but did not appear in the majors this year. So, I'm guessing...
These are minor leaguers who were given major league contracts or were reported as having salaries. They can be deleted from the table or ignored. Sometimes...