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Old 01-08-2024, 04:32 PM   #10
Syd Thrift
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I don't think the game stores no-hitters as a category per se; it will add them to that big "accomplishments" list and from there I guess you could make it do a string search but, like, the issue I see there is that the DB already bloats up kind of badly after a lot of seasons. Every column they add is more bloat - especially when the data point in question is going to be 0 for 99% of all players - and if they did the truly bloatiest thing imaginable and stored Project Scoresheet style data for the entire league for all seasons, that'd not only be massive, it'd potentially take forever to do database queries of the kind you're trying to suss out (number of times a pitcher had a game started with 0 hits allowed over that start and where the number of outs they threw = the number of outs available in the game... although even that query wouldn't hit the edge case where a guy throws a no-no through 9, then gets relieved in the top of the 10th in a tie game, and then the new reliever immediately gives up a HR to the first batter).

I'd love to see the game store a lot of the situational statistics past the year you're currently in (it does store lefty/righty splits like that). That's asking a lot though. I'd love for it to in general be Baseball Reference but that's a site with a pretty decent sized database, perhaps a bit too large for a lot of people to want to have it sitting on their hard drive for a fictional league.
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