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Spritze · 04-22-2018, 06:53 PM

The Spritze database contains 681 player seasons beginning in 1856 through 1870. I only included players who eventually played in the major leagues 1871 and on. To get stats that matched up with 1871 an mle conversion was run on the raw stats available for those players in those early years. If a player had no useable stats for those years they were just skipped. The real stats do exist for these 681 player seasons it was just that the game was so different back then they looked really weird to the human eye. Luckily computers don't care how things look, they just do the math.

Now that the computer knows how to run those mle conversions a great many more players from 1856 on who never played in the major leagues of the 1870's could be created.

04-22-2018, 06:53 PM	#7
Spritze OOTP Historical Czar Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Bothell Wa Posts: 7,254	The Spritze database contains 681 player seasons beginning in 1856 through 1870. I only included players who eventually played in the major leagues 1871 and on. To get stats that matched up with 1871 an mle conversion was run on the raw stats available for those players in those early years. If a player had no useable stats for those years they were just skipped. The real stats do exist for these 681 player seasons it was just that the game was so different back then they looked really weird to the human eye. Luckily computers don't care how things look, they just do the math. Now that the computer knows how to run those mle conversions a great many more players from 1856 on who never played in the major leagues of the 1870's could be created. __________________ It's madness, madness, I tell you! For the love of God, don't do it!