The CSV Download Center is ... a Mess

[RAY@HQ]

The one i downloaded (Betts 100%) was titled June 17th, so i suspect it had updated. It was pretty early--the date in the title is always my tipoff! Maybe the Betts PT was revised later.

This should all be fixed tomorrow morning. I'll be checking...

[anb]

The one i downloaded (Betts 100%) was titled June 17th, so i suspect it had updated. It was pretty early--the date in the title is always my tipoff! Maybe the Betts PT was revised later.

[RAY@HQ]

Update: he didn't update in the next hour. I'm checking into it further, I think there's a timing issue in our overnight refresh schedule.

[RAY@HQ]

CSVs refresh one daily, in the morning. I'm not sure of the exact timing, but I'd expect it to be updated in the next hour.

[anb]

Hi--quick clarification....the CSV file I downloaded still reflects Mookie Betts's at bats at 100% playing time projection. On his page, Mookie's playing time and projection have been updated. Are the CSV files on a day lag, is this a unique situation, or something else? Thanks, as always!

[RAY@HQ]

Ah, glad you noticed those! I posted in a couple of threads, but should have bumped this one too. Very glad to have this one back, for sure.

[BrewerFan]

Ray - all the CSV database updates look GREAT. Thank you and the entire BBHQ staff for your responsiveness. Very much appreciated!

[birddogs_d]

Yes, Please bring back the YTD stats in a combined table with projections.

[RAY@HQ]

Yes, that's exactly what happened... Suarez got YY's bombing from Korea. I've logged already, should be fixed soon.

[Dodger"Blues"]

On the subject of the YTD Stats .csv file. Can someone look into Robert Suarez's YTD stats. They require correction. The math tells me Suarez's YTD stats include Yoshinobu Yamamoto's stat line from 03/21. A quick look at Suarez's player page (game log) confirms just that. Something looked off-kilter over the past weekend, but didn't really dig into it until this morning.

Thank you for your time.

[Dodger"Blues"]

Re the YTD & Projected Stats. You can add my voice to "yes I would like to see a combined YTD & Projected Stats .csv file," as we used to have on the old site - much more convenient. And as also mentioned, no AB column in the YTD file. Currently, I have to go to a separate web site to get those numbers, which is a total pain in the ***.

[RAY@HQ]

Agreed on all of this. I'm traveling this week, but next week I'll get into the process of standardizing to the "final" format, as well as investigating the return of a Proj+YTD file.

[BrewerFan]

Another exampe - the hitter stats file doesn't even have AB's as a category. Definitely needs a detailed look.

[BrewerFan]

I appreciate the response, Ray. Again, that file is like 75% of how I access info on BBHQ. Giving an option of a merged database would be a big help for those of us who download and merge databases.

Otherwise, the big suggestion is to have the stats and projections files be as uniform as possible for those of who us who want to use both. That means both in rows (it would be great to have same player list across both files for matching purposes, although I know it would feel like clutter to include on the projections list players out for the year,, and vice versa)

It also means making the column ordering as uniform as possible between the two databses for those of us who merge the two and need to line them up as much as is feasible given the same handful of distinct stats categories.

Thanks!

[RAY@HQ]

This doesn't have to be final.... I'm aware that we no longer have the "Proj + YTD" data in one combined file. If there's a consensus that bringing that back would be valuable, we should be able to bring it back. That obviously wasn't a priority in the pre-season, but it was an open question at the time whether that combined file would be missed.

And yes, column order is easy to change, in fact I can do that myself.... it's just been a question of time to take a good look at it, plus I was trying to be very conscious of not changing the column layouts in the peak of draft season.

So... yes, there's absolutely an opportunity to make these files look like we want them to look for the long term. Feel free to drop suggestions here...