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Old 06-22-2016, 03:11 PM   #522
Spritze
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Originally Posted by swampdragon View Post
If the stats don't exist, say so.
BBref has fielding stats for the vast majority of player seasons but they only track the position a player appeared at most. So if a player was in 150 games and 100 at 1B are known the program looks at other seasons to see if he had another position he appeared at most. If that was 3B then he will get 50 games at 3B with stats based on his other appearances there.
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