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Originally Posted by AlpineSK
Historical play was pretty much a "play at your own risk" with the Lehman databases.
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Frustrating thing is the equivalent DB is available for hockey. It could be used to atleast get offensive and penalty minute ratings sorted. I've used straight statistically derived formulas to re-rate players already, and they work like a charm. I rebalance stats to account for different scoring levels over time. Every iteration gets me closer and closer to hitting the historical accuracy that is darn close. I've started looking at penalty minutes now.
I get frustrated seeing someone like Mark Tardif sent to the minors in 1979 because the researcher just didn't bother to rate the player. Or having Bobby Orr get barely 40 penalty minutes per year because someones "opinion" places his aggression at 10, when putting it at 20 gets you closer to real life performance.
Give me a tool I can use to enter these ratings myself and bang half my issues with the game are gone.