Options for the Automatic Player Linker – Baseball-Reference.com
Posted by Sean Forman on November 9, 2010
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I've added some customizations to the automatic player linker. Previously, there were no options and it would only search players active since 2006, both majors and minors, and would add a bold face to each link we found.
I've now tweaked this, so you can create your own bookmarklet that allows you to select any first year (for example 1871-2010) for the majors and back to 2006 for the minors.
I've also allowed you to turn off minors linking completely and turn off the bold face added to the links.
Enjoy and I'll certainly consider any additional feature requests.
Note that if you run a blog and use the linker already, it will continue to work as previously designed, so there is no requirement to update the code.
November 9th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Can you expain what this is? I assume it's some tool to turn any name into a link to that player's page. How do we get it?
November 9th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
And, in case it wasn't obvious, I'm asking because the idea is AWESOME.
November 9th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
BSK,
It is more for bloggers to add links to B-R pages from their writing. If they have a mention of Derek Jeter, the tool will automatically add a link for them. You can also use it on other sites as well. Select the text click the bookmarklet in your browser toolbar and we add the links.