Why Do Full-Season Stats Not Always Match the Game Logs/Splits?
We have two competing sources for our data: Full-season data comes from Pete Palmer, and the game-by-game data comes from Retrosheet.org. For some stats these are not always going to match up — this goes for every stat on the site, but especially the save rule, where Retrosheet has in some cases applied a different rule than Pete did. David Smith will be reviewing the 1950-68 seasons this summer and will make the appropriate changes to the game-by-game stats, which will eliminate some of the discrepancies, but there will likely always be some differences between the datasets simply because of the nature of each one. Hopefully this post has cleared up some of your confusion regarding our retroactive application of the save rule for seasons in which the stat was not originally tracked. But if you still have questions or comments, feel free to email us at bugs@sports-reference.com.
