[Spritze]

Originally Posted by Ravi

A question for Spritze, is it worth reporting minor league players that are misidentified by BBref (due to name mispellings,variations or other errors) and thus replicated by OOTP causing them to have multiple entries in the database? Or is that something you wouldn't want to change going forward?

For example, the following 3 are all the same player

Arthur Tink Riviere (rivieti01,rivier001art) - Tink Riviere Minor Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com
A.Reviere, 1924 Houston Buffaloes (revier001a--) - A. Reviere Minor Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com
Ballplayer Reviere, 1925 Dallas Steers(revier001---) - Reviere Minor Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com

See: Tink Riviere to be added to the Buffaloes, The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1924 (The Houston Post. (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 53, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1924, Sequence: 10 | The Portal to Texas History)

What this means is that if you start in 1924 you would have rookie pitcher "A Reviere" on the Houston Buffaloes and after a year veteran Tink Riviere will populate the White Sox and rookie Ballplayer Reviere populates the Dallas Steers...

As you can imagine and just for the 1920s years I am looking at there are many other examples like this.

I change these when they are pointed out. I created a SQL query to update the database to help keep these straight when found. We also have quite a few MLB players Lahman and BBref disagree on.

I doubt this will ever be error free unless we do it ourselves in OOTP. SABR, BBref and Lahman all seem not to care. We do.