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Originally Posted by Spritze
The number of errors found during the compilation of the minor league stats were legion.
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Player stats? I wouldn't doubt it. SABR itself says that the sum of the player stats probably will never perfectly balance with the sum of the team stats in most seasons; some discrepancies will always be present.
It irks me, however, when the
league standings are wrong, because that's the most basic level of league data. That should always be correct.
The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball may be the gold standard of printed references for the minor leagues, but it's got mistakes.
The Sporting News Guide got the 2005 standings wrong for the Florida State League (I was able to find the correct results by using the individual team game-by-game results published on the MILB.com web site.)
I think the folks who compile such things should be told that all standings/club records data must be entered into Excel FIRST to be checked for balancing, and THEN copied into their page layout/web design app. Don't rely on straight transcription; human fingers are often fallible.
