{
  "id": 252251,
  "title": "Chicago White Sox Third Base Yoan Moncada 660162 not in players.csv",
  "url": "/competitions/mlb-player-digital-engagement-forecasting/discussion/252251",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-07-11T10:06:47.975022400Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>If considering using players.csv and its column playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds = True/False/Nan - <br>\nthis player does not exist in players.csv.  Although has Active Roster, in PlayerBoxScores and twitter <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ymoncada19\" target=\"_blank\">@ymoncada19</a> with 27578 followers. </p>\n<p>While there have been caveats mentioned about not all players and all dates, etc. kind of thought players.csv represented what players would appear in other json data but seems not true.<br>\nCould be others, just noticed this due to appearing in 2 DoubleHeader S,Y games.<br>\nNo targets either but not sure what this means for players with data like this for the future?</p>",
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      "id": "1383889",
      "postDate": "07/11/2021 10:06:47",
      "content": "<p>If considering using players.csv and its column playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds = True/False/Nan - <br>\nthis player does not exist in players.csv.  Although has Active Roster, in PlayerBoxScores and twitter <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ymoncada19\" target=\"_blank\">@ymoncada19</a> with 27578 followers. </p>\n<p>While there have been caveats mentioned about not all players and all dates, etc. kind of thought players.csv represented what players would appear in other json data but seems not true.<br>\nCould be others, just noticed this due to appearing in 2 DoubleHeader S,Y games.<br>\nNo targets either but not sure what this means for players with data like this for the future?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If considering using players.csv and its column playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds = True/False/Nan - \nthis player does not exist in players.csv.  Although has Active Roster, in PlayerBoxScores and twitter @ymoncada19 with 27578 followers. \n\nWhile there have been caveats mentioned about not all players and all dates, etc. kind of thought players.csv represented what players would appear in other json data but seems not true.\nCould be others, just noticed this due to appearing in 2 DoubleHeader S,Y games.\nNo targets either but not sure what this means for players with data like this for the future?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1384292",
      "postDate": "07/11/2021 16:41:24",
      "content": "<p>I do not believe that the long term goal of the hosts is to model individual players - I don't believe a predictive model like this will be used in the fashion you tend to indicate.</p>\n<p>Rather it would seem that MLB will use the best models to develop action plans to drive more engagement.  If for example, twitter followers is one of the important features they would likely influence all players to have active accounts.</p>\n<p>Models can predict the future or they can guide us to change the future.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I do not believe that the long term goal of the hosts is to model individual players - I don't believe a predictive model like this will be used in the fashion you tend to indicate.\n\nRather it would seem that MLB will use the best models to develop action plans to drive more engagement.  If for example, twitter followers is one of the important features they would likely influence all players to have active accounts.\n\nModels can predict the future or they can guide us to change the future.",
      "votes": null
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1384292,
      "author_name": "pcjimmmy",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/11/2021 16:41:24",
      "content": "<p>I do not believe that the long term goal of the hosts is to model individual players - I don't believe a predictive model like this will be used in the fashion you tend to indicate.</p>\n<p>Rather it would seem that MLB will use the best models to develop action plans to drive more engagement.  If for example, twitter followers is one of the important features they would likely influence all players to have active accounts.</p>\n<p>Models can predict the future or they can guide us to change the future.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
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    "1383889": "If considering using players.csv and its column playerForTestSetAndFuturePreds = True/False/Nan - \nthis player does not exist in players.csv.  Although has Active Roster, in PlayerBoxScores and twitter @ymoncada19 with 27578 followers. \n\nWhile there have been caveats mentioned about not all players and all dates, etc. kind of thought players.csv represented what players would appear in other json data but seems not true.\nCould be others, just noticed this due to appearing in 2 DoubleHeader S,Y games.\nNo targets either but not sure what this means for players with data like this for the future?",
    "1384292": "I do not believe that the long term goal of the hosts is to model individual players - I don't believe a predictive model like this will be used in the fashion you tend to indicate.\n\nRather it would seem that MLB will use the best models to develop action plans to drive more engagement.  If for example, twitter followers is one of the important features they would likely influence all players to have active accounts.\n\nModels can predict the future or they can guide us to change the future."
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