[batdad]

Originally Posted by Bigrod

I don't follow hockey at all, but I would have to wonder, how many players on the same team in any given year have the same exact name?
I've done thousands of pics for baseball, the MLB, All Minor lgs. and about 9,000 for 300 ncaa teams and I've yet to find 2 players on the same team with the same name, but that may be different with the foreign hockey teams.
If it's not many, then I would use player name_team name_year as the naming convention for photos. Just a thought.

Example 1: Greg Adams, Greg Adams ....and middle initial was used for one of them back in the day. Greg C Adams. Vancouver Canucks in 1988-89. Greg Adams became known as Gus. Greg C...as Greg C.

But for me the DOB is the way to go. Too many different naming conventions in different areas of the world....as the pain of identifier numbers changing DB to DB would be a nightmare. At least the DOB remains the same. Unless of course you are making a CHANGE START DATE Patch, and all kinds of crazy insane stuff like in EHM.