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By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:36:17 +0000

http://www.brokeshields.com/download.php?file=2010_06_08.zip

How do you put current game data into table format that can be used in Excel?

By: David Pinto

David Pinto — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:30:12 +0000

Yes, that would be great. If you want you can zip them and mail them to pinto@baseballmusings.com.

Thanks!

By: Darrell

Darrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:20:01 +0000

I could get you the 2009 csv files for each table to import if that will work for you?

By: David Pinto

David Pinto — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:17:58 +0000

Darrell,

I have through 2008 loaded on my machine. Is there a way of just loading 2009 data into the existing MySQL database?

By: Stephen Varga

Stephen Varga — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:44:58 +0000

Thanks a lot for this, really awesome! I am doing a thesis project that uses this data and I’m really excited not to have to recompile all this again with the 2009 data. Is playoff data included in your database?

By: Derek Carty

Derek Carty — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:48:56 +0000

Found it, Darrell. Never mind, and thanks again for putting this together.

http://chadwick.sourceforge.net/chapter1.html#cwevent-expanded-event-descriptor

By: Derek Carty

Derek Carty — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:47:12 +0000

Thanks, Darrell.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:37:39 +0000

Good to know. I dropped the baseball database and created the retrosheet database.

So here is the syntax I’m using for the import:
mysql -uroot -pmahler -hlocalhost retrosheet < retrosheet.sql

The sql is saved on my C: drive and in the bin folder where mysql.exe is stored.

Still getting a syntax error. Can you see the error in my command line? If not, I wonder if it's my install.
Thanks!

By: Darrell

Darrell — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:18:08 +0000

Rich,
The top 20 lines of the retrosheet file has a USE ‘retrosheet’ line. You need to change that to ‘baseball’ or remove it all together and put baseball in your connection string. The file is huge so this might not be the best way. 4 GB in notepad doesn’t fly. It is a pain in VI also.

mysql -uusername -ppassword -hlocalhost baseball < retrosheet.sql

The other way of doing it is to import the entire database as retrosheet database. When it is done turn off the mysql database and copy the database directory from retrosheet to baseball. Start mysql, and connect to it with your favorite editor. If the database baseball is there drop database retrosheet. Seems like few steps, but I do it this way when playing around with it.

Darrell