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Spritze · 07-02-2006, 10:29 AM

Historical Simmers: I sent this upload to baseball sim central today and it should be up in a few days. Anywhere else I should upload it to?

These Lahman-style/Lahman-compatable CSV files contain the actual minor
league Batting, Fielding and Pitching records of all major league players
who played in 1951 or debuted between 1948 and 1973.

The team and leagues are the actual minor league teams and leagues. There
is a “Team affiliation” CSV file that includes the Lahman style abbrev for
the major league organization these teams were under. “IND” means the
team was independent.

The file also includes 545 Japanese, Negro League and lifetime minor
leaguers and their actual records as close as I could find. There is a dearth of
fielding records for Japanese/Negro league players so in many cases the
fielding records are merely averages based on the records I could find for
those players/years.

I have used these files with 6.5 and 2006. In both cases as these programs
assume you are importing major league records I use MLE’s I generate
based on these minor league records for importation. I have played about 25
sim career leagues using these records and find that it adds greatly to the
depth of the game. Players start at the ages they really did and generally
progress very similarly to real life.

07-02-2006, 10:29 AM	#1 (permalink)
Spritze All Star Reserve Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Redmond Posts: 635	Historical Minor League Lahman semi-available Historical Simmers: I sent this upload to baseball sim central today and it should be up in a few days. Anywhere else I should upload it to? These Lahman-style/Lahman-compatable CSV files contain the actual minor league Batting, Fielding and Pitching records of all major league players who played in 1951 or debuted between 1948 and 1973. The team and leagues are the actual minor league teams and leagues. There is a “Team affiliation” CSV file that includes the Lahman style abbrev for the major league organization these teams were under. “IND” means the team was independent. The file also includes 545 Japanese, Negro League and lifetime minor leaguers and their actual records as close as I could find. There is a dearth of fielding records for Japanese/Negro league players so in many cases the fielding records are merely averages based on the records I could find for those players/years. I have used these files with 6.5 and 2006. In both cases as these programs assume you are importing major league records I use MLE’s I generate based on these minor league records for importation. I have played about 25 sim career leagues using these records and find that it adds greatly to the depth of the game. Players start at the ages they really did and generally progress very similarly to real life.