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Old 04-14-2019, 09:27 PM   #156
Spritze
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Originally Posted by FancySkunk View Post
I'm actively working on a large scale report of these duplicate ID errors, as well as some other improper ID errors (length issues at the moment). It's a fairly big issue throughout the roster database, unfortunately. Even after I get through with all the issues Excel flagged for me (1651 flagged players in all), I'll still need to check a few things like apostrophes and periods in IDs), and even then I'm not going to be able to catch any IDs that are wrong but currently unique and following proper form.
if it would be helpful I can send you the historical minor league bbref ID's. that list is straight from bbref and has no duplicate entries. it has additionally been updated over the last 4 years with fixes to spelling errors and other player name issues found by users. in short it is very clean.
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