What were some of the 400 corrections?
Dates of many transactions were incorrect allowing for 26 men on roster. Most of them were DLs where it said for example: Date of DL was August 16th Effective August 9th. The effective feature does not work. That August 16th needed changed to August 9th since he did not play during that time anyway. Some suspensions were missing, some transactions were missing. May have been something else but cannot remember right now but I think you get the gist of it.

Also the balks, intentional walks, walks, strikeouts etc were off overall and I went in and tweaked the ERA rates to get all this stuff in better shape. (I am speaking of 1996-98 in the above sentence as 1999 is not off as bad but still will get some minor tweaking).

Right now I am working on the Mgr profiles to get player usage a bit better. Nothing real major here in 1999 on this category I am just anal about going thru since I am doing all this. However, I will mess with the settings for bunting, how closers are used, stealing etc to get these numbers by team a bit closer.

It takes a bit of time but I figure if I am going to spend a few months replaying a season I might as well get this stuff right. I am not sure how many more years forward I will need to do this but going to keep going till I am satisfied. I know the transactions are right from 2005 to present cause I did them. image

Please remember that DMB did not have the tools to check these transactions way back when. If they used the Commish bulletins from MLB, which I think they did, then that is one thng that hurt them. You would think MLB would be right on.....wrongo bucco. Sometimes they did put the effective date of the DL so that would have had to been researched, sometimes their dates were wrong, sometimes not all were reported etc etc. It was a mess. Very hard to believe. Thus, as fast as you all want the seasons released, they just would not have had the time to do all the tedious research manually and meet the deadline.

Trust me, I am not saying all that I am doing is perfect and right on. You will notice from time to time I will post here telling you I found a suspension. I am finding these in SN Register. They evidently updated their publications. Since what was not there say in 1996 I may find in the 1998 Register. But I am confident I have nailed 99.5% of them if not all of them.

Hope this explains it a bit.