There are a number of entries in the Pitching table that have invalid 0 entries in the BFP field, where it's fairly clear that the actual value is unknown and...
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Wells Oliver
xmutex
Jul 18, 2009 2:13 am
Is there a process to submit information for players in the BDB database? Noticed a couple missing colleges, and a couple w/ erroneous college listings. -- ...
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tangotiger
Jul 19, 2009 4:38 pm
Your best bet is simply to post, and someone will try to do something with it. Tom ... Tim Raines, Hall of Fame 2008 http://www.raines30.com/ ... ...
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Micke Hovmöller
mhovm1
Aug 12, 2009 8:14 am
What is the g_old column in the batting table? I googled a bit but couldn't find the answer, and the documentation only say "G_old old Games Played...
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Sean Forman
sforman71
Aug 12, 2009 1:44 pm
Micke, G_old was the old value before I created the appearances table. I think the issue for the players below is that they were injured before the game ...
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tjruane
Aug 26, 2009 7:58 pm
SABR is planning on revising their booklet on how to do baseball research and putting it on-line. One of the sections in the guide will be a discussion of...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Aug 26, 2009 8:15 pm
... There are a few out there. Here's one: http://statspeak.net/2008/11/building-a-sabermetricians-workbench-part-i.html And you can quote Adler's book as...
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Jeff Zimmerman
wydiyd
Aug 26, 2009 8:45 pm
Here is a great online tutorial on building an SQL database with databank http://statspeak.net/2008/11/building-a-sabermetricians-workbench-part-i.html ...
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Michael Westbay
westbaystars
Aug 27, 2009 12:20 am
... There are a couple of data sets available from NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) here: http://www.japanesebaseball.com/data/ The first one is mine. The...
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tjruane
Aug 28, 2009 12:17 am
Thanks for all the help. If the group doesn't mind, I might post a preliminary draft to the File section in a few weeks for review. Thanks again. Tom Ruane...
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tjruane
Aug 31, 2009 2:37 pm
This could very well be a stupid question, but how similar is the data on baseball-databank and baseball1.com? I thought that at one point these were the same...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Aug 31, 2009 3:27 pm
Of the tables that intersects, I would have to say the data is identical. I provided Lahman (and this group) with an Access script that loads all the...
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sgtmac5660@...
sgtmac5660...
Sep 1, 2009 2:48 pm
Tangotiger; I found your "primpos.mdb" in the files section. I would like to use your queries with the Lahman 5.6 database. My interest is career prime...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Sep 1, 2009 3:40 pm
That would seem to be correct. Try it out, and see what you get. Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball http://www.InsideTheBook.com...
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anson2995
Sep 1, 2009 6:19 pm
... Tom is correct. The underlying data is identical. The output formats are what's different. Sean Forman and I formed the baseball databank to help...
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sgtmac5660@...
sgtmac5660...
Sep 2, 2009 12:52 pm
Tom; Worked like a charm. Just what I needed. Mac...
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Matthew Gargano
tkestars
Sep 2, 2009 12:56 pm
pardon my ignorance, but what is the primpos.mdb database?...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Sep 2, 2009 2:05 pm
It's in the Files section. I don't remember if I put a Readme file with it. It's an Access query that figures out the primary position of every player....
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sgtmac5660@...
sgtmac5660...
Sep 3, 2009 11:17 am
Matthew; If you feel that Tom's primpos.mdb is something you might be interested in using, just be aware you need to make some changes to use it with later...
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sgtmac5660@...
sgtmac5660...
Sep 3, 2009 12:41 pm
For anyone interested I have uploaded a text file (MLB Outfielder Positions.txt) to the files section. It contains around 480 major league outfielders and...
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Matthew Gargano
tkestars
Sep 3, 2009 12:44 pm
Thanks. I actually wrote a few functions as part of a php library to handle the data. One is a method of determining primary position and another is a list of...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Sep 3, 2009 1:47 pm
PrimPos.mdb is dynamic. It'll automatically recalculate the positions any data the data set changes. Tom ... The Book--Playing The Percentages In Baseball ...
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Matthew Gargano
tkestars
Sep 3, 2009 4:55 pm
That's awesome Tom, I didn't know that, sorry for making an assumption. Is there anything that automatically updates data within the current season?...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Sep 3, 2009 5:10 pm
... Best bet is to join the RetroSQL group. There's a couple of (external) ongoing things that are highlighted there. Tom...
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Joel Dinda
joeldinda
Sep 8, 2009 2:46 am
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:57:54 -0000, tjruane wrote: [snip] ... [snip] Tom: The Baseball Cube *is* willing to sell data. Never tried it, but it looks like they...
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Tangotiger
tom@...
Sep 8, 2009 1:33 pm
... I have a fairly exhaustive list here: http://tangotiger.net/wiki/index.php?title=Websites#Data Tom...
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Bryan Walko
bryanwalko
Sep 8, 2009 3:06 pm
If this includes just raw data, there is some Japanese data here: http://japanesebaseball.com/data/index.jsp And I created a pretty decent database of the...
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kjokbaseball
Sep 9, 2009 3:47 am
... I know you said no nitpicking allowed, but I should point out that these guys have duplicate records: davisch01 bondsbo01 winfida01 beltrca01 davisto02 ...
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tjruane
Sep 12, 2009 2:06 am
As I mentioned earlier, SABR is planning on updating its 2000 booklet, "How to Baseball Research" and making it available on-line. An early version of the...
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Matthew Gargano
tkestars
Sep 12, 2009 3:08 pm
I joined and searched retrosql and did not see anything for current year stats. Is there some kind of guide or readme on how things work on the group?...
