Stats4Gnats posted:...
I’ve said over and over again that to me the most efficient method would be to make scorers paid and officials, and be assigned the same way umpires are. Then the entire mess is turned over to them. They keep the score, they count the pitches, and they turn in the data to the database. That’s what I’ve been doing for going on 15 years now, and it works well. The coaches don’t have to spend one second messing around with it and neither do the umpires or anyone else. But I daresay you won’t find more than 30,000 volunteers every season willing to do that for nothing. So in lieu of not paying SKs, who else can be counted on to do it with as few worries about bias as possible.
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... and, there's the real agenda.
Swamp, your patience and composure are beyond admirable.