Keeping the Scorebook

floridafan - I'm with you. Keeping the book was a way to keep me watching the game and gave me an excuse to sit away from others most of the time.

As far as your first question, I would score it DP F3-3U.
The second I usually wrote in .

My thinking was that i wanted to do the book so someone could pick it up after the game and understand what happened during a specific inning.

Also, in order to make scoring fair, anything questionable (error or hit, etc) I usually got a consensus from other people I believed were knowledgable.

Thanks Ram Fan! The U for unassted plays makes alot of sense. I always before had done things like 3-3. I like your way much better.

Floridafan,
I have come to the conclusion there is no right or wrong way to keep books as long as you can go back and reconstruct the game from the scorebook and pluck those very important stats from your scorebook. Instructions vary on how to enter information. As far as the balk and the passed ball just indicate that “unusual” action that advanced the runner between the two bases the action took place. For instance if the runner advanced from 2nd base to 3rd because of a wild pitch you would indicate on your scorecard a “WP” between 2nd and 3rd . Passed ball=PB ---- Wild pitch=WP etc. As far as the runner being doubled up at first I would indicate LO-3 UA-3 DP (line out to 1st base and an unassisted first baseman double play). I wouldn’t use 3-3 because that indicates an assist and in this case there is no assist. ASU Ram fan and I are saying the same thing just in a different language. Here is an example of our differences. F=Indicates a fly ball so F-3 indicates a fly ball to 1st base. ---or--- In this case I distinguish between a “flyout” and a “lineout” and go with the LO-3. ASU Ram fan uses U-3 as an unassisted first base and I use UA-3. Good questions but no real “etched in stone” answers.
Fungo

Fungo - in my experience, people in W TN usually speak a different language.

I love keeping score

On your first question, I do one thing different from most in that I just use lines to show if it was pop-up or line drive....

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3-DP1

would represent line drive to first base in the score box for the hitter (a rainbow line over 3 would mean it was a pop-up)

In the score box for the runner, it would say

3-DP2

I started differianting between when the out occurred because while I kept the book, my husband who couldn't attend many games scored them into the stats program and he needed to know the right order and I couldn't always remember....and sometimes it is not obvious.

As for your second question, I do the same as Fungo writing Balk, WP or PB above the line drawn between the bases shwoing the advance.

Other notes include E-6T for a throwing error by short or perhaps E-3C if first did not catch a throw.

I would draw a circle around the event to show that it effected more than one runner/advance(that is, both runners on 1st and 2nd advanced so the one of the two entries is circled to show it happened on the same play. A two-base error would get the same treatment)

We'll have to figure out how to do notations here.....in score keeping, a picture is worth a thousand words....and a whole ballgame comes to life on the paper

Does anyone have a favorite publisher of scorebooks. Many books that are readily available hve very limited space for any notation at all.

The way I would score it would be to put LO3 in the hitters box and then 3U in the runners box with a bracket [ connecting the two boxes.

I think this set of posts is showing that there is no right or wrong way. For me the key is can I pick up someone else's book later and recreate the game in my head.

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Regarding your second question, I will track the runners around the bases, showing how each advance occured by writing next to the line showing the advance - so on a balk, wild pitch, passed ball etc, the appropriate initial appears next to the line.