{
  "id": 248746,
  "title": "New players?",
  "url": "/competitions/mlb-player-digital-engagement-forecasting/discussion/248746",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-06-24T18:20:23.621545700Z",
  "votes": 9,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>There are new players on private test set not seen on train data?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1364238",
      "postDate": "06/24/2021 18:20:23",
      "content": "<p>There are new players on private test set not seen on train data?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "There are new players on private test set not seen on train data?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1364452",
      "postDate": "06/25/2021 03:00:22",
      "content": "<p>Maybe players recovering from and getting injured? I have provided the names and salaries for the top 26 players for each team here if that helps:<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/kaito510/mlb-player-salaries\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/kaito510/mlb-player-salaries</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Maybe players recovering from and getting injured? I have provided the names and salaries for the top 26 players for each team here if that helps:\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/kaito510/mlb-player-salaries",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1364457",
      "postDate": "06/25/2021 03:20:38",
      "content": "<p>IMO<br>\nPer the overview, data, etc - there are a list of players who will be in the test data.  That list is defined in the players.csv file as \"playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds\".   </p>\n<p>These players will be the only ones scored.  </p>\n<p>It should be possible that new names might show up with players moved up from the minor league system to fill in for injuries, etc.  But they will not be scored.  Your model should assume strangers might appear but any prediction you make for them should be ignored by kaggle in the scoring.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "IMO\nPer the overview, data, etc - there are a list of players who will be in the test data.  That list is defined in the players.csv file as \"playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds\".   \n\nThese players will be the only ones scored.  \n\nIt should be possible that new names might show up with players moved up from the minor league system to fill in for injuries, etc.  But they will not be scored.  Your model should assume strangers might appear but any prediction you make for them should be ignored by kaggle in the scoring.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1365600",
      "postDate": "06/25/2021 23:16:05",
      "content": "<p>I checked with an inner join on the train players and didnt failed so up to now there arent new players or as you say they are not scored</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I checked with an inner join on the train players and didnt failed so up to now there arent new players or as you say they are not scored",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1364452,
      "author_name": "kaito510",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/25/2021 03:00:22",
      "content": "<p>Maybe players recovering from and getting injured? I have provided the names and salaries for the top 26 players for each team here if that helps:<br>\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/kaito510/mlb-player-salaries\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/kaito510/mlb-player-salaries</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1364457,
      "author_name": "pcjimmmy",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "06/25/2021 03:20:38",
      "content": "<p>IMO<br>\nPer the overview, data, etc - there are a list of players who will be in the test data.  That list is defined in the players.csv file as \"playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds\".   </p>\n<p>These players will be the only ones scored.  </p>\n<p>It should be possible that new names might show up with players moved up from the minor league system to fill in for injuries, etc.  But they will not be scored.  Your model should assume strangers might appear but any prediction you make for them should be ignored by kaggle in the scoring.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1365600,
          "author_name": "enric1296",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "06/25/2021 23:16:05",
          "content": "<p>I checked with an inner join on the train players and didnt failed so up to now there arent new players or as you say they are not scored</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1364238": "There are new players on private test set not seen on train data?",
    "1364452": "Maybe players recovering from and getting injured? I have provided the names and salaries for the top 26 players for each team here if that helps:\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/kaito510/mlb-player-salaries",
    "1364457": "IMO\nPer the overview, data, etc - there are a list of players who will be in the test data.  That list is defined in the players.csv file as \"playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds\".   \n\nThese players will be the only ones scored.  \n\nIt should be possible that new names might show up with players moved up from the minor league system to fill in for injuries, etc.  But they will not be scored.  Your model should assume strangers might appear but any prediction you make for them should be ignored by kaggle in the scoring.",
    "1365600": "I checked with an inner join on the train players and didnt failed so up to now there arent new players or as you say they are not scored"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}