... As I said, you create a what we know. For every year, you carry certain information, like this: FRANCHISE_CHANGE 1,change in name (Y/N) 2,change in league...
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Mike Emeigh
mwemeigh
Jul 3, 2007 3:06 am
Tangotiger wrote: (snip) ... Is it really up to any one individual (or small subset of individuals) who "sees value" to invent something to be put into the...
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tangotiger
Jul 3, 2007 4:39 am
... Nothing has to go in the BDB database. This would be akin to KJOK's Parks database. You can link that in if you like, or ignore it. Tom ... The...
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Vinay Kumar
sdvinay
Jul 3, 2007 6:31 am
... I think we've agreed that it's not well-defined. If we lose the idea that there's a single "Fan ID" (or whatever we call it) per team-season, it doesn't...
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Dereck L. Dietz
dldietz2001
Jul 4, 2007 5:54 pm
I downloaded the baseball-database zip file and in one of the tables have come up against column names which I can't figure a description out for and was...
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KJOK
kjokbaseball
Jul 4, 2007 7:19 pm
BBA - Base on Balls Allowed (or Against?) HA - Hits Allowed (or Against?) RHA - Home Runs Allowed (or Against?) RA - Runs Allowed (or Against?) SOA -...
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tangotiger
Jul 6, 2007 2:56 am
I've emailed John Zajc, executive director of SABR, and Carolyn Pappas, to establish the exact status of Doug's salary data. They confirm that Carolyn donated...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Jul 6, 2007 4:11 pm
Rod, I'm satisfied that Zach and I have already contributed greatly to the solution of integrating Doug's work to the BDB to make it available to the general...
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Rod Nelson
rockymtnsabr
Jul 6, 2007 4:50 pm
Tom, That is precisely the plan. Thanks for your work. Call me anytime. Rod Nelson Research Services Manager www.sabr.org 800-969-SABR (7227) ... From:...
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Zach
fantasysport...
Jul 6, 2007 9:34 pm
I have not actually looked at what Tom has put up yet... and if he included the one thing I added (I added it for myself.. but anyone will be welcome to it) ...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Jul 7, 2007 12:09 pm
Zach, I only added your Retro IDs. For the present-day conversion, it would be better to simply have a table of the annual inflation rates, and then creating a...
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tangotiger
Jul 13, 2007 12:03 pm
Two years ago on the Retrolist group, I posted this a while ago (see also David Vincent's response): ...
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F. X. Flinn
FXFlinn
Jul 13, 2007 12:18 pm
No, he doesn't. The HR Log is incorporated into the SABR encyclopedia and we are deep in a project that will completely open it to all with deep querying ...
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Clem Comly
ccomly2003
Jul 13, 2007 12:58 pm
A better analogy is David Vincent is one of the 2 or 3 blacksmiths who made the armor. In addition to upgrading a visor here and improving a gauntlet there,...
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Mat Kovach
matkovach
Jul 13, 2007 1:25 pm
... HE does, but SABR does. Best I can tell must be a member of SABR to view the Home Run log. Let's use the proper terms so people don't get confused. The...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Jul 13, 2007 4:06 pm
... One thing I would like is the result of this output: select gameid, ishome, sum(HR) as HR from HRtable group by gameid, ishome Is this currently possible? ...
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Tom Stillman
giantsfan_94121
Jul 13, 2007 6:16 pm
... http://www.palmbeachpost.com/marlins/content/sports/epaper/2007/07/13/a1c_homeruns_0713.html ... I know this is off topic from the current thread but ...
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Mike Crain
ucraimx
Jul 13, 2007 9:55 pm
I think everyone would like all data to be freely available. While that is ideal, that sometimes may not be possible. Sometimes research is a thankless task,...
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tangotiger
Jul 13, 2007 10:36 pm
Retrosheet: 1957-2006, sans 1999 Until they get more years, that's all we've got... Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball ...
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Mat Kovach
matkovach
Jul 14, 2007 1:39 am
... I have no problem giving credit where it is deserved. I was simply stating that SABR's encyclopedia's data is not open and accessible ( you must be a SABR...
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Greg Spira
spira
Jul 14, 2007 8:28 am
MLB employs Elias as its official statistician and Elias answers questions from the clubs as part of its job in that role. Media outlets pay Elias annual or...
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tangotiger
Sep 22, 2007 8:44 pm
Mark Kiger is not in the MASTER (the version that I have anyway). He played in the 2006 post-season, but not regular season. Tom ... The 2007 Fans' Scouting...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Sep 25, 2007 2:51 am
Thanks. We'll fix that. sean ... -- -- Sincerely, Sean Forman Baseball Stats! http://www.Baseball-Reference.com/ SR Blog!...
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Clem Comly
ccomly2003
Nov 10, 2007 2:44 pm
HP HP Bosox Sullivan baseball-ref. 2 vs 7 daily's total Tigers Hoeft " 3 vs 6 daily's total Apparently transcription errors caused these...
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dsreyn
Nov 14, 2007 4:17 am
A few years ago, somebody discovered 2 "missing" 1941 walks for Ted Williams that had erroneously been uncredited. So Williams had 147 walks for the season,...
3484
btibert3
Nov 20, 2007 12:33 am
Hi guys, I apologize for the stat-based question. If this is not the appropriate place, if you could point me in the right direction I would greatly apprecate...
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Robert Ehrlich
bobehrlichpva
Nov 20, 2007 9:00 pm
Brock: There are a number of ways to skin your cat. One of the oldest and easiest to understand is the "chi-square contingency table". In your case you would...
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Richard Worth
wien1897tdw2002
Nov 21, 2007 6:11 pm
Dear Baseball Data Bank, My name is Rick. I live in Chicago (actually Northlake) with my family. I've just written 2 baseball books- one on 19th Century...
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tangotiger
Nov 22, 2007 7:27 pm
(Cross-posted to retrolist, baseball-databank.) John Jarvis has his excellent data, posted team-by-team, year-by-year, which I recommend: ...
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Philip Kromer
flipkromer
Nov 30, 2007 9:52 pm
Hello, [I've crossposted this to the retrosheet list -- sorry if you get both. Since this was an effort to match some of the data against BDB / Lahman...
