Baseball History Collection

The Dave Koch Sports Baseball History Collection includes the following sets:

BBHistory-Master
Over 17,000 retired players based on a representative peak slice of each players career. All players are listed as free agents.

BBHistory-Franchise-Teams
Same as the Master set but includes rosters for each team based on the Dave Koch Sports Franchise All-Stars set. All remaining players are listed as free agents.

BBHistory-Decade-Teams
Same as the Master set but with the best players from each of 12 decades placed onto an all-star team for that decade. All remaining players are listed as free agents.

BBHistory-5000PA-2000IP-500GP
Over 1600 players from the Master Set who exceeded 5000 plate appearances, 2000 innings pitched, or 500 games pitched. All players are listed as free agents.

BBHistory-500PA-200IP-50GP
Over 8000 players from the Master Set who exceeded 500 plate appearances, 200 innings pitched, or 50 games pitched. All players are listed as free agents.

About Peak Career Slice
Players are created using the best 35-100% of their career. The longer the career the smaller the percentage used. Each season or portion of a season used is normalized for their home park for that season. Outlier seasons are adjusted to lesson their impact. All players are then assigned to a neutral home park and a year based on a weighted usage of the seasons included in the career slice. In an effort to remove significant outlier years the year listed for each player does not always represent the best year of his career. Ratings and statistics are based on official Dave Koch Sports season files from 1880 to present.