AUTHOR: Ryan Armbrust
DATE: 2:11:00 AM
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<div style="clear:both;"></div>I've been using <a href="http://www.baseball-encyclopedia.com/">Lee Sinins' Complete Baseball Encyclopedia</a> (formerly the Sabermetric Baseball Encyclopedia) for the past year or so. It's an invaluable program for anyone doing any kind of research on baseball stats.

I ordered the newest edition, and I've had a ton of problems with it. The worst thing that can happen to a database of stats is that it's inaccurate, and that seems to be the case. I don't know whether I've received a bad CD, or if there's something else going on.

For example, here's a screenshot of what the result is when I do a pretty basic query, asking it to tell me the top 10 home run totals from 2006:

<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/r84x/hrlistflawed.png" />

That's not even close to being right...

And here's another example of an error:

<img src="http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c351/r84x/thomaswrong.png" />

It's duplicating/splitting season data (as you can see for 2006), and it's not right, either. Thomas hit 39, not 26 HR, and his AVG was .270, not .229...

I wrote an email to Lee Sinins on the 12th, when I got the CD and noticed the errors, but I didn't get a response. That's probably normal, my email might have been eaten by his spam filter, or he just might be really busy.

I sent him another email on Wednesday the 29th, and I haven't heard back from him yet, but I'm going to give him some time.

What I'm asking, though, is this: Has anyone else had problems with the CBE?

This is a pretty serious problem, and it would be good to know if it's an isolated incident or if there's an error with the database...

I hope I can get this resolved soon, the CBE is a fantastic tool.<div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div>
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