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Originally Posted by RMc
Because I'm a complete lunatic, I recently put together a spreadsheet of all indy teams and leagues since 1993. (I also have logos for all the teams, too, about 90%+ real or real-ish, with the rest I concocted myself.)
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I salute your effort. However, I must caution you that there are issues with the records of some clubs due to inconsistencies in sources. I discovered this when trying to compile the first and second half standings for leagues which used the split-season format. I've found several cases where the club's records for each half don't equal the overall record, as well as cases where the won-loss record of a club from its team pitching statistics don't match the record given in the standings. (Note that this issue also affects some affiliated minor leagues as well.)
Here's the list of leagues with issues in their standings that I've found to date.
2004: Atlantic, Arizona, Central, Pioneer, Mexican Leagues
2005: Atlantic, Central, Florida State Leagues
2006: Can-Am League
2008: Golden Baseball League
2009: Golden Baseball League
The GBL in particular is a mess for the two listed seasons. For 2009, for example, the Baseball-Reference standings don't balance for both the first and second halves; the records for Tucson and Yuma as given in the team pitching stats section don't equal the sum of those clubs records from each half. Much the same is true for 2008, though in that case the standings published in the relevant
Baseball America Almanac don't balance (BB-Ref doesn't give any standings for 2008, though the club records can be found in the team pitching statistics section).
I find it somewhat flabbergasting that the most basic level of data for a league—the final record of each member club—appears to not have been crosschecked against the club records as given in the team statistics before the data was published. (I use Excel to compile the minor league standings so i can confirm that the overall standings, as well as for each half, balance; I also check to see if the sum of the records from each half for each club equals its overall record. Once the standings are confirmed correct, it's a snap to then copy those numbers of out Excel and paste them into a Word or other text editing app.)