Long-time listener, first-time caller. Early in August I did some analyses using the 1998 downloadable CSV files from The Baseball Archive (baseball1.com)....
... Rob, Thanks for mentioning these. I think all of these have been caught in the new release here. http://www.baseball-databank.org/ I just checked Stanton...
By the way, what has been decided about IDs for minor league players in the complete version of the bbdb? ... Ah, its minor league status has been debated for...
I had a couple of questions that went unanswered a week or so ago and was wondering why the database went that way. I'm just asking, NOT complaining! I still...
... This is with an eye towards further expansion. When data like minor leagues and foreign leagues is added, there will likely be a number of new ID's issued...
Ah, I understand now. Here's another question. My executive table, upmpire table and coaches table will be done by the end of September.If I upload the tables,...
I'll confess I owe Sean some data he's hoped to put in the latest release (nothing new - simply fixes to my old submitted data). I hope to get that in to him...
One of our more pressing problems is Microsoft Access v97 and v2000. The v2000 template I posted works like a charm. Converting that to v97 did not seem to...
Derek; Thanks for the response. I had looked at that site and saw the latest posting was the end of July and thought (a very dangerous activity in my old age)...
... Derek isn't the reason that I haven't posted anything yet. It's purely on my end. I'm continuing to try and get some work done. I believe I'll have...
... The newest versions should always appear there (he says with one iteration under his belt). I'm expecting to leave the old versions up as well. -- ...
A few of you have mentioned some bad ways to learn MS Access: - look up everything you want to know, piecemeal, in the index to "Help" - read "Help" straight...
In the old Lahman database, you'd get a pretty comprehensive list of positions, offensive (PH,DH,PR) and defensive. Now? Correctly, we don't need to duplicate...
PH AB's and Hits were in the Old MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedias. PH and PR do seem to be tracked by STATS, Inc. STATS, Inc. also tracks PR appearances. Not...
... I agree, practically, we might as well keep everything together. I just mean technically, these are two different types of things (one can record fielding...
... The Sporting News guides and the Red Books (AL) and Green Books (NL) have full records for players as pinch hitters or as designated hitters for the year...
... See the "practically complete" half of my "Total Baseball editions" http://world.std.com/~pgw/tb.editions.html -- P/\/ \/\/t Paul Wendt, Watertown MA, USA...
Sean, A quick question on the xref columns between the lahman and retro ids. Were these taken from your own file that you once sent me, sometime in March or...
Don't know what the referred website is supposed to link to, but it doesn't work - only displays a blank page. If this is a legitimate baseball site, you need...
