What happens if a team has been created with an ID which has been already used by a team previously deleted ?
Of course new element should contain date when current team started to exist (when current owner received club). Only this information has sense. Without this information it is hard (or sometimes even impossible) to make proper statistic (including all matches of current owner and excluding matches of previous owners), because current owner has the same teamid as previous owners. Practically it is still the same club. You could try to analyze changes of club's name in schedule during season, but You can not recognize two different situations:
1. new owner received club after last match in season and before first match in next season
2. the same owner changed club's name between seasons.
And another incredible situation was impossible to discovery - when new owner used the same club's name as previous ;-)
Last edited by B.B.King at 11/10/2010 11:14:51 AM