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Originally Posted by The Wolf
No one will ever be able to build a reliable data set, because the data simply doesn't exist and cannot be replicated. The best anyone can ever do is educated guesswork, and that's just not good enough.
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There's just enough to be tempting, and other companies have sold Negro League disks, both All-Star and for particular seasons. I don't know how much gap filling they had to do, but I'd suspect quite a bit. What certainly doesn't exist is enough individual stats to provide ratings for full leagues for decades of Negro League baseball to be simmed OOTP style. It would of necessity be essentially a fictional league (although the names would be real) for the Kansas City Monarchs and a couple of other teams we do have information about to perform in. At least that's the impression I get from BB Reference and Seamheads, which are the best of the publicly available sources.