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Originally Posted by Elysian Fields
Thanks for the response. I appreciate it. I have just been copying and pasting the lahman names and typing in year and team numbers. Love the list especially because baseball-reference and lahman don't match up on a few players.
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That's correct. lahman ids and bbrefs MLB ids aren't always the same. The utility only uses lahman ids when it creates the import format and the player urls. Which is also why some of those urls bring up the wrong player on bbref's site.
I did it that way to prove a point as some users think you can get a player's id from bbref and use it to import historical players and you CANNOT do that with 100% accuracy.