I posted an update of a lot of profile information on the master file for this version of the Lahman database. It includes changes to birth dates, death dates,...
I am much appreciative of this project and all the work that has gone into it. Q: I noticed the salary table is not very complete. Even missing years for...
Hi, all: For all rows for the 2011 season, Stint column is always 1 in Fielding table. If Stint=1, then it's not possible to identify the correct team order...
All HOFers get a record in Master whether or not they played in majors. EG Earl Weaver is weaveea99m. The second column for Gillick, the player ID, should be...
In case anyone else was wondering, no 2011 player had two stints with same team, so no need to subdivide Fielding row into 2 rows for two different stints with...
Hi, all: These HofId from the HallOfFame table are not in the Master table. baergca01 2011 bagweje01 2011 boonebr01 2011 brownke01 2011 francjo01 2011 ...
Right, it looks like maybe ALL the IDs have been set to the baseball-reference ID?! Is that a choice, or a mistake? Â THANKS, Kevin ... Right, it looks like...
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The same sort of issue appears to have happened with many (all?) players with initials as their first name: A.J. Burnett is burnea.01 for 2011 records, C.C....
Right, they've all been changed to the baseball-reference ID convention for periods in a name. But not sure if this was intentional, or if it's an error. ...
Yep... I got 6 more (after fixing Youkilis and J.D. Drew). Â 8 in total. burnea.01 dicker.01 pierza.01 romerj.01 romerj.01 sabatc.01 Â -Chris Yep... I got 6...
think these are the complete list... donnejo01 1873 WS5 NA donnejo01 1874 PH2 NA burnea.01 2011 NYA AL dicker.01 2011 NYN NL drewj.01 2011 BOS AL furcara02...
A few years back, BP received an official complaint from the ADL over the default playerID for Kevin Youkilis, and the perception of a religious slur contained...
I'm going to post the updated version of the database to my website within the next few hours. It'll be available from my website http://seanlahman.com --...
Thank YOU Sean for all your good work. -----Original Message----- From: anson2995 Sent: Feb 6, 2012 2:08 PM To: baseball-databank@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Once Sean has released the new database, could some kind soul create a mysqldump and post the script either here or to Sean's site? Much appreciated!!...
Thanks Sean. I'd like a role in this business, but I'm not a database jock. If you have any ideas for useful work that needs doing, please let me know. Peter ...