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Baseball reference generates player ID's by the first 5 letters of the last name and first two letters of the first name of the player and with a number at then end. This number at the end depends on how many people with the previous 7 letter string have appeared before them. An example. Bryce Harper has an id of" harpebr03". This is because he wasn't the first player whose name generated harpebr. The scraper write now assumes that "bryce harper" would generate the string harpebr01", which is not the case and thus breaks the code.