Updates to SABR Minor League Encyclopedia (March 10)

The SABR Minor League Encyclopedia was updated on March 10.

Ted Turocy, technical coordinator for the Encyclopedia, shares what's been added:

* We've built out 19th century rosters for players with last names starting in "Y" and "Z", based on Reed Howard's lists, and through Cliff Blau's efforts.

* Ed and I (well, Ed gets most of the credit here) have been able to develop a process to synchronize changes from his database to the main one. We tested this out last week with players with last name "A," so we've added a bunch of updates for those players.

* I'm now in receipt of all Paul Porter's statistics spreadsheets. I have added additional statistical columns based on these to the 1903 AA and EL, by way of testing things out.

* Between Paul's spreadsheets, data entry I had already done a few years ago, and data entry by a few volunteers, we will have expanded statistical coverage of most of the AAA and AA leagues in 1981, as well as whatever other leagues from the 1970s I manage to get done today.

* Further work on identifying managers from Jerry Jackson's data with players in the database. We've been able to match up about 40% of the managers so far. The rest will go much more slowly, because Jerry's data lacks birth and death dates for most of these guys -- so we either need to look for player-managers (of which we are finding a lot), or use other resources to match up former players with their managerial careers.