I want to run an idea past everyone and see if there is any interest in it.
1. Would you find it helpful/useful/interesting to have an online database or spreadsheet that had the pitchers’ APBA grades and ratings for every season that the company issued? Would you use such a site?
2. Additionally, if a wiki-style spreadsheet or database were set up so that anyone could edit the spreadsheet and add pitchers and their grades, would that be something you would take part in helping with?
I’ve had a couple inquires and requests about web pages with pitchers’ grades and to my knowledge, there isn’t one in existence. I know my friend Chuck from the IAL has expressed interest in the project.
But before I go ahead with any major project, I want to gauge the interest in the resulting product.
Yes, I would use the data. I have a major APBA project coming up next week (updating the card computer), so I couldn’t help out very much, but I do have a program that reads a PLAYERS.DAT file. I’m pretty sure you do as well.
I have developed a bit of MySQL skill in the past month, if that might help.
Totally in agreement. (Steve and I are old buddies, for what it’s worth.) I’d love to have it, especially if it was filtered through him . . . :)
Great!
I’m going to be looking into it and with your mysql skills, will definitely contacting you Steve :))
Well, you know my thoughts on this one and I’ll lend a hand to the project
in any way that I can. It’s a great idea and if I can feed you any grades from a specific set just let me know. It would not only be interesting to
see how a pitcher was graded historically it would also be interesting to
see how APBA may have changed their grading from the original set
to the (R) and (RR) sets.
I’m curious to find out what blog system you are utilizing? I’m having some minor security issues with my latest blog and I’d like to find something more safeguarded. Do you have any suggestions?