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GaryStephen · 06-04-2006, 05:50 PM

I'm planning to begin work on a player database that will supplement the Lahman database.

By converting real-life AAA and AA stats to their major league equivalents, we can create real players that can be used in conjunction with major league players, thus giving you a larger pool of players to choose from. These players can serve the following purposes:

-- Use real players instead of fictional ones to fill in gaps in historical seasons
-- Give meaningful stat lines to "cup of coffee" players
-- Bring up future stars a year or two sooner, or watch them develop in the minors on their way up
-- staff minor league teams for a historical league
-- create larger-than-life MLB leagues

These supplemental players were used in a long-running APBA/Baseball For Windows league, and they worked pretty well.

What I'd like to do is build a database in the same format as the Lahman database, so they can be merged and imported all at once.

I'm currently collecting Sporting News Guides so I will have all the necessary stats. I plan to start with the 2005 season and work backwards. I feel this database can go as far back as 1946. I've got the TSN guide from that year, and the necessary stats are there. Before that you've got WWII, the segregation problem, and the available minor league stats are vague.

Just wondering if anyone is interested in the project, or had done something similar. I don't want to duplicate effort.

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GaryStephen Bat Boy Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0x in 0 posts	Auxiliary Historical Database project I'm planning to begin work on a player database that will supplement the Lahman database. By converting real-life AAA and AA stats to their major league equivalents, we can create real players that can be used in conjunction with major league players, thus giving you a larger pool of players to choose from. These players can serve the following purposes: -- Use real players instead of fictional ones to fill in gaps in historical seasons -- Give meaningful stat lines to "cup of coffee" players -- Bring up future stars a year or two sooner, or watch them develop in the minors on their way up -- staff minor league teams for a historical league -- create larger-than-life MLB leagues These supplemental players were used in a long-running APBA/Baseball For Windows league, and they worked pretty well. What I'd like to do is build a database in the same format as the Lahman database, so they can be merged and imported all at once. I'm currently collecting Sporting News Guides so I will have all the necessary stats. I plan to start with the 2005 season and work backwards. I feel this database can go as far back as 1946. I've got the TSN guide from that year, and the necessary stats are there. Before that you've got WWII, the segregation problem, and the available minor league stats are vague. Just wondering if anyone is interested in the project, or had done something similar. I don't want to duplicate effort.