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arod23 · 01-04-2006, 10:49 AM

As many of you have noted, the 2005 update to the Lahman DB (www.baseball1.com) has not been posted yet. Typically, it is posted in early November. The reason is that there are discussions taking place about changing the format.

Attention Markus:
If there are changes to the format, then the ability to do historical sims in the new version will obviously be impacted. In fact, the current version of OOTP won't work either. Even if one field is changed/moved in Lahman, importing will not work or at best contain major errors.

Fixing things like reordering, eliminating columns to correspond to OOTP import format is not that difficult and Garlon and I will volunteer to make an OOTP-compatible Lahman DB if neccessary. However, despite the 100s (are there 100s?) of custom DBs created by the community, my guess is that more users still import directly from Lahman (certainly those new to OOTP use it first). That means that the new version will not work "out of the box" for historical simmers without using a "mod DB".

Markus, I know you spoke with Sean Lahman when developing OOTP, so I think a new discussion is warranted.

01-04-2006, 10:49 AM	#1
arod23 Major Leagues Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 378	2005 Lahman, may be a new format As many of you have noted, the 2005 update to the Lahman DB (www.baseball1.com) has not been posted yet. Typically, it is posted in early November. The reason is that there are discussions taking place about changing the format. Attention Markus: If there are changes to the format, then the ability to do historical sims in the new version will obviously be impacted. In fact, the current version of OOTP won't work either. Even if one field is changed/moved in Lahman, importing will not work or at best contain major errors. Fixing things like reordering, eliminating columns to correspond to OOTP import format is not that difficult and Garlon and I will volunteer to make an OOTP-compatible Lahman DB if neccessary. However, despite the 100s (are there 100s?) of custom DBs created by the community, my guess is that more users still import directly from Lahman (certainly those new to OOTP use it first). That means that the new version will not work "out of the box" for historical simmers without using a "mod DB". Markus, I know you spoke with Sean Lahman when developing OOTP, so I think a new discussion is warranted.