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Originally Posted by stantheman
Indeed!! Such a frustrating one, but you'd think that it wouldn't be that hard to rectify? I am a bit of a stats geek, so it drives me bananas as well.
You used to be able to use the import/export to amend this by adding the missing team id's to the stat lines, but the stat lines with no team id's don't appear in the exported files anymore.
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So I have done some further research on this and the issue lies with players who played for franchises who are now inactive (so mainly the late 1800's). Any player who played for a team such as the Cleveland Spiders/Cleveland Blues etc.. will not have a team ID assigned to them for some reason and therefore their stats will not be included in leaderboards/team records.
Had a look at the database when using historical rosters and they don't include any of these inactive franchises (team id's anyway, the names are correct), instead substituting in an active team in their place.
For example, the Cleveland Indian season win leader is listed as Jim McCormick with 45 in 1880 (this was in fact for the now defunct Cleveland Blues who are in no way related to today's Cleveland Indians) and their all-time win leader is listed as Cy Young, who in fact played for the Cleveland Spiders in the 1890's (again no relation of the present day Indian's).
Would love this to be investigated further...