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Originally Posted by NCBeachBum
Well, I know I'm resurrecting a somewhat dead topic, and may well be telling you something that's common knowledge, but I'm fairly new to Catobase and still don't know what is or isn't common knowledge, so overlook me.
When I first started using Cato, I didn't know to keep the abbreviations the same, and had several defunct teams that had moved as a result. Then, as I was looking around in the program last week, I found a way to go back and make them acknowledge their history that might work for you, too.
I opened up the database in Catobase, and then selected Team Info from the Edit menu (this is 6.1.4, BTW). I then went to the first year that a team was in it's new city (i.e., I went to 1902 for the St. Louis Browns, who had been the Milwaukee Brewers in 1901, and to 1903 for the New York Highlanders, who had been the Milwaukee Brewers in 1902), and left clicked the PrevTeam column. This made a pull down appear in that space, from which I could select the team they had previously been. After doing them all, I hit Exit, re-exported my hotmail with the recalculate all years option ticked (not sure if that's necessary or not, but decided better safe than sorry), and voila, no more defunct teams, all history acknowledged.
Now I just change the abbreviation every time a team moves and have made doing this each year after I import stats, but before exporting HTML, a part of my yearly routine.
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