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gmo · 10-26-2005, 01:59 PM

I am wary of the "feature request" idea. The three above things are great and what we want, but this should not turn the project into a Christmas tree where everyone can try to pile on all the ornaments they want. Like SandMan said in the other thread, CatoBase and its successor in this idea should simply be a recreation of baseball-reference.com and not some all-encompassing do-everything utility. There is actually a whole lot from B-F that could be added, but I just hope people indeed keep the ideas within that framework.

However, if the database as created for or by this CatoBase descendent could serve as a basis for other utilities (if that is possible, I am hardly a programmer) doing different things perhaps that could be useful. For instance, CatoBase gives a Team Leaderboards page where for each league the 3 best and 3 worst team seasons in various stats are shown. Maybe someone would think it cool to make something that separately makes txt or html file(s) that lists the top & bottom 25 or an ordered list of all seasons for the full league in specified stats. That might be really easy to do if the CatoBase database can be accessed to pull out the information.

10-26-2005, 01:59 PM	#2
gmo Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2002 Location: Longmont, CO Posts: 3,420	I am wary of the "feature request" idea. The three above things are great and what we want, but this should not turn the project into a Christmas tree where everyone can try to pile on all the ornaments they want. Like SandMan said in the other thread, CatoBase and its successor in this idea should simply be a recreation of baseball-reference.com and not some all-encompassing do-everything utility. There is actually a whole lot from B-F that could be added, but I just hope people indeed keep the ideas within that framework. However, if the database as created for or by this CatoBase descendent could serve as a basis for other utilities (if that is possible, I am hardly a programmer) doing different things perhaps that could be useful. For instance, CatoBase gives a Team Leaderboards page where for each league the 3 best and 3 worst team seasons in various stats are shown. Maybe someone would think it cool to make something that separately makes txt or html file(s) that lists the top & bottom 25 or an ordered list of all seasons for the full league in specified stats. That might be really easy to do if the CatoBase database can be accessed to pull out the information.