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Originally Posted by Simp
Sorry, I lost myself as well. I read your post too quick. I missed the part where you said there were 10,000 position players. I don't have access to the DB now. It can be downloaded for free here: Download Database - baseball1.com
If you have MS Access you can download that version. If you have Excel you can downlaod the comma-delimited version. You can then import the tables to Excel and use "text to columns" to get the data in a spreadsheet format. At least I think that's how I did it. If any of this is foreign to you I can help out some. I will try longtime's query tomorrow, unless someone beats me to it. |
Thanks. I'm the sort who appreciates reading the results of the detailed research and number crunching of others, but not the sort with the patience to put in the time myself in the name of precision. My goal here was to make a general point, and jtur summed it up well when he wrote that MLB:
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has yielded a very high number of players dominated by a very small number of people who genuinely distinguished themselves in the game with longevity of career, with a very steep curve at the end of the chart.
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That steep curve, that's what's interesting to me, learning that around 90% of all the position players who have made the roster of a big league club, have not stuck around long enough to hit 75 homeruns.