UMDB Classic

[Brock Beauchamp]

Man, I wish I would have reached out when I found this place last year. I could have preserved that site.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Write to them and see if they're willing to give it up. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

Still nothing. Still says May 31.

[whippoorwill]

This is really ridiculous 

[metirish]

On 7/2/2026 at 9:58 AM, Benjamin Grimm said:

Write to them and see if they're willing to give it up. 

I emailed them after this post back then and no reply 

[Benjamin Grimm]

I sent a message in April to the admin's personal email address, and never got a reply. 

I definitely gave the site to the wrong people. Unfortunate, but the shadow site that I've kept alive will remain indefinitely. Eliminating box scores, transactions, and minor league stats, and no longer keeping track of the movements of former Mets players who are still active, means that it's taking up very little of my time.

But I really would have liked to have been able to pass the torch and let someone else take over. I suppose I can still do that, but the UMDB name appears to be unrecoverable. 

[Cowtipper]

Sue them for breach of contract. Something about goodwill or good faith or something. I think that's a thing. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nah. But I would definitely consider making the code and the data available to another interested party. 

[Edgy MD]

Call the relaunched classic "The All-Time Mets Database" and laugh at those fools all the the way to the bank.

[Frayed Knot]

And tell them you'll take yours down whenever they get around to putting theirs up.

[Cowtipper]

Respectfully, if you can keep a version of yours up in some form, even in sparsely updated, I think that would be for the best. It's still one of the best Mets resources out there. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

The May 31 message has been replaced by this:

 

 

[whippoorwill]

🙄

[Brock Beauchamp]

I'm gonna have a boatload of time during the lockout, I will put more thought into whether I have the capacity to do something with this.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The new guys have the ownership of Ultimate Mets Database, and that's okay. But they're apparently planning to discard most, if not all, of the content I provided to them. If you decide that you want to take on the actual UMDB data and present it under a new name, we can certainly discuss whenever it's convenient for you. 

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Do it!

[whippoorwill]

Yes please; that was an incredible site

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

From the ashes of the UMDB, you're getting an early look at a reconstructed all-time numerical roster. It needs a lot of small repairs including all the data from 2026 when I stopped updating it.

One cool feature is the Numerical roster button, which if it works right can show you the Mets roster on any given day ever.

https://www.mbtn.net/?page_id=3212

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm glad you were able to get that page up. I'm sorry I pulled the rug out from under you last year!

Did you ever meet with the new guy at the UMDB? I remember introducing you.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

we just exchanged an intro email and nothing after