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Right. Because the original lahman database will give original "ratings" based on the players first season in the majors, some ratings can be weird. For instance, Ty Cobb had a pretty crappy first season, so he will import will low initial ratings. His "talents" will still be nice, but he will take a bit longer to reach them because of the low initial "ratings".
Because of this, I almost always use a career based database for historical leagues. One of these will give a player an intial rating on par with their entire career instead of the intial first season.
Ankit has done alot of work with the database and has created 2 really good ones. One is a career based database and the other is like the original database, but eliminates alot of "cup of coffee" players that will become gods because they went 2-4 in their career, an debuts a player, not in the year they actually made their 1st career AB (like the original DB does) but debuts a player when they had their 1st signifigant number of AB's.
Definitely suggest looking into the Ankit DB's for historical leagues. A word of warning though.....even using these databases, its a good idea to give the players a once-over. With a roster set, usually the creater has done all of the work for you, but for a particular year.
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