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Good day, While I was merging the database with the current active rosters from mlb.com I came across the following discrepancies in birth dates: Name...
4 May 29, 2012
7:03 pm

Sean Forman
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Probably a dumb question but can anyone lead me to a good source for 2012 MLB data? I'd like to provide current stats and suspect there are many services that...
1 May 29, 2012
11:59 am

chrislambrou
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The latest consistency check has 5 found when 2 expected. Two of the 5 are cases apparently where the same player is accidentally in Master twice. It looks...
5 May 20, 2012
11:43 am

Clem Comly
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Hi there, I would like to merge (unite, join or however it's called) different databases. We have a baseball site to highlight stats of latino players and we...
1 May 3, 2012
7:52 pm

FrankPereiro
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What a great find this site/group has been! Quick question. Is there a newbie post or file? I love all the work everyone has done and I would like to view...
5 Apr 24, 2012
1:37 pm

Matthew Gargano
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Dear group members, Please excuse the cross posting. When examining more than one season's worth of data, do you think that there is a need to examine the data...
1 Apr 19, 2012
3:40 pm

N. S. Miceli, Ph.D.
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Just posted a beta version of the updated baseball database. It's just the CSV version. Please let me know if you find any issues with it. ...
17 Apr 17, 2012
1:37 pm

chrislambrou
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Hello, I'm currently getting my personal database ready for the 2012 season and I like to keep it with the same player, team, and franchID's as the databank...
8 Apr 10, 2012
8:06 pm

KJOK
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I'm not sure if this qualifies as an error, but I noticed that the "stint" column for managers is 0 if 1 manager lasted the entire season. 1 is only used to...
3 Apr 8, 2012
3:05 pm

Tangotiger
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Dear Members, Thank you to all who responded to my request for help for readers. As I get into the planning process for research, I'm sure that list members ...
1 Apr 6, 2012
7:48 pm

Nicholas Miceli
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Andy Phillips(phillan01), 2008, stint 1.  Lahman 5.9.1 has 31 ABs.  According to baseball-reference.com and Retrosheet, he only had 21 ABs.  MLB.com has him...
1 Mar 24, 2012
9:45 pm

Paul Golba
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I'm not sure what the source of the park factors for the database are, but I was under the assumption that it was the same as the multi-year park factors as...
1 Mar 24, 2012
9:45 pm

Paul Golba
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Hi, all: Uploaded the latest release of Lahman database (591) and found a lot of errors. [00] Stint column in Fielding table must have a different value for...
1 Mar 10, 2012
7:06 pm

Alberto Perdomo
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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 --...
4 Mar 10, 2012
5:59 pm

Alberto Perdomo
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Looks like playerID for J.D. Drew in batting and fielding was set to the Baseball-ref ID. drewj.01 instead of drewjd01....
8 Mar 8, 2012
9:33 pm

vansloot
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Hi. I wanted to share a Japanese baseball database with this group. It covers Nippon Professional Baseball from 1936 to 2011. I tried to incorporate some of...
2 Mar 6, 2012
8:17 pm

KJOK
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I noticed that at least some players that returned to playing after an absence didn't have their final game dates changes. One example is Ryan Vogelsong,...
1 Mar 5, 2012
3:48 pm

dflory
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There is no data for 2011 in the salaries table. Is there any plans to correct this issue?...
1 Feb 24, 2012
9:25 pm

wydiyd
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It looks like Michael Stutes is in the 'Master&#39; file, but not in Batting.csv, Pitching.csv, or Fielding.csv: For the CSV files, here's the line to add to...
4 Feb 21, 2012
3:27 pm

anson2995
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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...
3 Feb 13, 2012
4:45 am

mirv
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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!!...
4 Feb 7, 2012
9:31 pm

michael Webb
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Keven Youkilis playerID was wrong for 2011 (batting and fielding). Should be 'youkike01&#39; instead of 'youklke01&#39;. -Chris...
2 Jan 31, 2012
2:07 pm

Clay
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Hi, all: For 2011 season, in BattingPost and FieldingPost, St.Louis' rows have STL teamid instead of SLN. Regards, Alberto....
3 Jan 30, 2012
10:42 pm

mirv
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Hi, all: Noticing that for 2011 rows in the PitchingPost table, the HR value is missing and ERA looks to be in the place of BAOpp column. ...
1 Jan 27, 2012
10:58 am

Alberto Perdomo
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Hi, all: These HofId from the HallOfFame table are not in the Master table. baergca01 2011 bagweje01 2011 boonebr01 2011 brownke01 2011 francjo01 2011 ...
1 Jan 27, 2012
10:58 am

Alberto Perdomo
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The ManagerId below is in the Managers table but not in Master hydebr99m 2011 FLO NL...
1 Jan 27, 2012
10:57 am

Alberto Perdomo
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Could someone who has a DB run the site's consistency checks against the Beta version and post the results to the listserv? Thanks. Clem Comly...
1 Jan 23, 2012
4:04 pm

Clem Comly
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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...
1 Jan 23, 2012
2:50 pm

Clem Comly
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good job! I was trying to do this as well, but the files I had were replete with errors, and misspellings. Thanks for yet another toy for us!...
2 Jan 22, 2012
7:32 pm

chrislambrou
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I'm writing to this group because I've written several times to Sean Lahman to request, as a normal courtesy, permission to use the data contained in his...
3 Jan 11, 2012
9:17 am

FrankPereiro
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