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I figured I'd describe this before I go to work on it.

I'm working on a "fixed" version of the Lahman database along the lines of Ankit's, but actually very different.

The idea is this:

For each player in major league history, I will combine each of his seasons with his career average. In other words, if a guy only has 1 AB in a particular season but he averages 500, he will get 251 for that season. If a player has a seasonal average of 25 homers in 500 AB, then for a season where he has 10 homeruns in 50 AB, he will have 18 homeruns in 275 AB.

The idea is to take the concept of a career average database, which makes every year of a player produce stats of his career average, and combine it with the fluctuations of each year. This way a guy who only got a few AB as a rookie but went on to have a nice, long career will get the benefit of the career, but guys will still have ratings and talents that are not equal, giving room for change over the course of a career.

A couple of things Ankit's does that this won't:

I will not have separate entries for hitters and pitchers for guys who did both. Ruth will have both skills. This is just a personal preference of mine.

Every player in mine will show up in his actual first year, rather than in his first substantial year. As great a job as Ankit has done (and it is great), this is one thing that has always been bothersome to me. Because I'll be using the career averages combined with real stats, this won't produce the problems it does with the regular Lahman DB.

I have a Thanksgiving break from classes, so I'll probably get working on it then.

Does anyone have interest in this? And if so, does anyone want to host it? I'll probably put it up on Baseball Sim Central after it's done and I've tested it. Then others can test it and let me know if it works okay.