New Features
Improved player searching. Some players are harder to find than they should be because they are listed with an uncommon version of their name. Searching for “Mike Morse” for example, would return no results because he’s listed in our database as “Michael Morse”. With our improved search functionality, these problems are solved. “Mike Morse” can now return “Michael Morse“, “Andrew Oliver” will now return “Andy Oliver“, “AJ Ellis” can now bring up “A.J. Ellis” and “Hyun Jin” will now show the page for Hyun-Jin Ryu.
Since these alterations need to be added to the database on a per name basis please let us know if there’s players you still have issues with.
Also, we’ve added the ability for our parser to update names which should solve a lot of these issues. Generally when a player is in the minors the Gameday files we get our data from will refer to them by their birth name. Scooter Gennett, for example, is in our database as Ryan Gennett since that’s how he was introduced to the league. If the nickname comes into common usage they’ll switch it over but until now our database would not reflect that. Players will also change their name occasionally such as Mike Stanton becoming Giancarlo. We would have to update this manually before, now it should happen automatically. These changes will start during our next update tomorrow.