Importing player one at a time

molarmite · 08-07-2007, 08:58 PM

How do you do that?

Russ · 08-07-2007, 09:44 PM

I'm pretty sure you can only do this within the draft pool. There is a button that says 'import historical player' or something like that. Input their historic ID, which if I remember correctly is the first 5 letters of their last name, the first two of their first name, and then 01 with the path set to Lahman or whatever database you use.

Ex: ruthba01, ripkeca01, aaronhe01, mayswi01

1998 Yankees · 08-08-2007, 08:54 AM

The last two digits are for sorting out duplicates; for example, there are four Bob (or Bobby) Adams in the Lahman database, adamsbo01, adamsbo02, adamsbo03, adamsbo04. They correspond to the four Bob Adams found by searching Baseball Reference:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ue+or+Team.y=9

By the way, you may notice that B-R seems to follow this player name/numbering scheme. That's how I noticed Hank Aaron is actually "aaronha01" in the database; he's listed that way in the address for his B-R page:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aaronha01.shtml

A little tip that I read here recently . . .

08-07-2007, 08:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
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08-08-2007, 08:54 AM	#3 (permalink)
1998 Yankees Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yankee Stadium Posts: 5,885	The last two digits are for sorting out duplicates; for example, there are four Bob (or Bobby) Adams in the Lahman database, adamsbo01, adamsbo02, adamsbo03, adamsbo04. They correspond to the four Bob Adams found by searching Baseball Reference: http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ue+or+Team.y=9 By the way, you may notice that B-R seems to follow this player name/numbering scheme. That's how I noticed Hank Aaron is actually "aaronha01" in the database; he's listed that way in the address for his B-R page: http://www.baseball-reference.com/a/aaronha01.shtml A little tip that I read here recently . . . __________________ The 1998 Yankees are considered to be among the The Best Major League Baseball Teams Ever From 1902-2005 by Baseball Almanac. They were 68-20 at home that year (including playoffs and World Series) in the original Yankee Stadium (1923-2008), "Where Players Became Legends."

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