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Originally Posted by spitfire
I don't have the time, interest or inclination to embark on that kind of project.
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Neither do I, which is why one season of data will have to suffice for the time being.
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Originally Posted by spitfire
Just wondering if one can draw conclusions from one season's worth of transaction data as to it being representative of recent seasons.
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What it would show is how thirty different major league organizations handled their minors within one season. I would expect that the overall results from those thirty different organizations would average out any peculiarities from any individual organization.
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Originally Posted by spitfire
That's a No doubt it's better than no data at all, and for that reason alone would be interesting if you ever did something more with the 2009 data.
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I got interested in the subject when the question of how OOTP teams manage their minor league systems as compared to real life. If I recall correctly I grabbed the transaction data while the 2010 season was in progress. A forum member (sadly I forget who) took the data and did a little programmed cleaning up on it. From there I was going to do the final cleanup on it. The idea was to have a final set of data so that you could pick one day from the season of one major league organization and see all the moves that happened that day. So, for example, if an ML club optioned a player back to the minors, what then happened in the rest of the minor league system? Was there a cascading effect of other players being sent down to make room? That sort of thing could be checked, along with the general frequency at which players were shuffled around the system.
I still have the Excel files for the 2009 season. If someone wanted to volunteer to help get the info into that final useful form—which shouldn't be too hard to do—then by all means please do so.
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Originally Posted by Biggio509
How would the use of minor league reserve rosters affect the transactions in the minors? Do teams keep guys in reserve often beyond rookie/SA?
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My understanding is that they don't for the most part, and keep only enough players to fill out the active rosters (which makes sense since the ML club is paying the salaries of all its minor league players). But I can't state authoritatively that's the case.
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Originally Posted by Biggio509
I have wondered if the way I play the minors of promoting guys when injuries occur is realistic or if teams keep some guys above the active limit but in the reserve limit in case of injury.
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That's exactly the kind of question the 2009 transactions data was intended to help answer.