Player Transactions
Posted by Justin Kubatko on May 19, 2008
This weekend I added transactions to the player pages. For example, if you go to the bottom of Paul Coffey's player page you will see a list of the transactions that Coffey was involved in. These transactions were parsed from the notes that appear at the bottom of the player panels in Total Hockey and The NHL Official Guide and Record Book. These transactions are not in full database form yet, so at this point it would not be easy to add them to the league and team pages. This is something I am going to work on, though, so please be patient. Parsing data is an inexact science, so if you see anything odd in the transactions on the player pages then please send me some feedback.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Fantastic job on parsing. I agree, it is a very tough job.
I noticed that on Gretzky's page that you have that he officially announced his retirement. You have something similar for Mario:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/l/lemiema01.html
But he actually announced his retirement twice. The first one allowed him to be inducted in the HOF years before his second retirement.
For Lafleur, this kind of notation is missing altogether.
Are you looking to receive this kind of information (at least for HOFers)?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Feel free to send me items that are missing and I will forward them to Dan Diamond. I would prefer to receive complete information (e.g., "Mario Lemieux officially announced his retirement on January 24, 2006") as opposed to partial information (e..g, "hey idiot, Mario Lemieux's retirement date is missing"). Thanks.