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Originally Posted by lukasberger
Yeah, I have no clue, I wasn't involved in those decisions. I agree with you personally.
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Neither was I, obviously.
I have to wonder if perhaps the research involved, at least at the league level, relied too much on Baseball-Reference's minor league pages* (which gets its data from SABR) and not enough on printed reference sources such as the
Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball or
The Sporting News.
*Funny thing about that. I've come across several instances of the league standings not balancing, as well as the number of games a club played as given by the standings not matching the number of games it played according to its team batting and pitching statistics. Whether this is a result of data entry errors on the BB-Ref web site or a failure to do basic cross-checking by SABR I cannot say.