No problem Nukester. If we can understand how it's done, we can create our databases appropritely.
My guess is that the odb is a "pre-compiled" set for every year (real life and neutralized). It is so much larger in size than any other file. So the reason you "think" it produces "consistent" ratings is because it produces "identical" ratings every time. The csv files won't do that since it runs thru the generation algorithms (which have some randomness to it). Thus you will get "similar" ratings (in all areas not just the pitches), but you do indeed get some variability. I don't think anyone would necessarily say the odb is the "most accuate" ratings but just a "pre-compiled" or representative set.
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BTW, Bristolduke my database has no duplicate names and I am "slowly"working on a similar project for pictues based updating each year for team changes using my databases name structure. I am about 1/4 through this but I dont expect to be able to finish it any time soon.
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I used you db as the original master, but found a couple of errors. Also, I was looking at first names only and realized you changed the last name as well (particularly in Jrs). I was concerned that if Jr was the last name in the text the game might think that his last name was Jr (I saw this somewhere else, not sure it was true with X), so I was taking the safe route by changing only first name (e.g Ken(Jr) Griffey). I also wanted it to work on the web, so all are lowercase and underscore (vice space).
So do you know the answer the 8 scenario question?