Draft Tool Updated and Cleaned Up
Posted by Sean Forman on May 27, 2009
Amateur Draft: 1999 St. Louis Cardinals Picks in the June Draft - Baseball-Reference.com
We spent a lot of time and money going through all 60,000 lines in our draft database, cleaning up errors and making the school and city names consistent from year to year. This was a large undertaking and I'm sure there are still dozens if not hundreds of errors or corrections that will still need to be made, but I'm confident we have the best normalized DB out there. A big thanks to Jay Virshbo for getting this work done. Please report any errors you find.
I also matched up all pre-2009 debuts to their draft record, so those are now updated as well. Next steps are to match this to our minor league db and then we can get these updated daily with the new 2009 debuts.