2024 Baseball History Collection

Updated June 2024! The 2024 edition includes recently retired players plus updated stats and ratings. All players are listed as free agents with an original team designation for easy sorting and team creation!

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

BBHistory2024-Master
18,400+ retired players based on a representative peak slice of each player's career. 

BBHistory2024-5000PA-2000IP-500GP
Over 1600 players from the Master Set who exceeded 5000 plate appearances, 2000 innings pitched, or 500 games pitched. 

BBHistory2024-500PA-200IP-50GP
Over 8000 players from the Master Set who exceeded 500 plate appearances, 200 innings pitched, or 50 games pitched. 

Debut Year Subsets
Includes 14 special subsets, one for each decade. Debut subsets contain all players who made their big league debut during that decade! A big fan of the 1970s? You can quickly create a league with only players who debuted during that decade!

Birth Country Subsets
Includes 12 subsets based on birth country. Included are Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Puerta Rico, United Kingdom, United States, and Venezuela.

About The Baseball History Collection - 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.