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Originally Posted by Gambo
The data within the databases generates the ratings. So if you use the .odb or the .csv with the same data then the ratings will be similar. The main difference between the .odb and .csv is simply the speed for importing data.
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Im still not understanding something then.
If:
1 - I use the .ODB, its the same as using the plain vanilla Lahman DB, with missing data for SB/CS/K's and players like Dimaggio missing years, except its optimized for speed, and it has fictional pitch ratings for players, to ensure good pitchers get good pitch ratings
2 - I delete the .ODB and replace the default .CSV files with a Garlon or Gambo database, the missing data for SB/CS/K's and missing years will be in there (at least with the Garlon DB..Not very familiar with the Gambo DB), but since the .CSV files dont contain any sort of pitch ratings (real or fictional), the game makes up the ratings, which could be all over the place (Ive had Waddell import with a highest pitch rating of 4 on a 1-10 scale a few times in this case)
So if you want to ensure that the new pitching model is going to work for a league, without having to look at all of the pitch ratings for all pitchers, you must use the .ODB file. Using a 3rd party DB might or might not work, but you would have to look at everyone to see if the pitch ratings are high enough (no way Waddell should have a max pitch rating of 4 on a 1-10 scale). Am I right?
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Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you.
Last edited by Nukester; 07-16-2009 at 12:02 AM.
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