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Originally Posted by Ankit
I hope to have it done in a month or so, hopefully sooner. What I have changed this time around is this:
Instead of normalizing individual player seasons, I normalize players based on their stats for their entire careers vs. the league average, each season weighted by their Plate Appearances or Innings Pitched in that season. Once I have their ratios, I can now go back apply it for each season relative to today's league averages to get a Normalized DB. For example:
For his career 1901-1919, Player Y hits 1.4 times the league's batting average (.200) for the same time period. His .280 batting average normalized for today, where the league hits .265 would be: .371. I will do this 1.4 times for each individual season to get his hits total each year. I will do this for each of the stats in my batting file.
Hope this has helped.
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Yep, that helps though I'm not sure that there was anything wrong with your previous methodology even though I don't know how you did it the first time. How did you do it?
You wouldn't happen to have a version of the old normalized db with stats for 2003 and 2004 would you?
And while I'm on the subject, why do you normalize the stats of current players. Shouldn't theirs stay the same if you're normalizing the db to today's standards?