Do me a favor. Take a look at the attachment and give me some feedback.
I’m motoring right along with my scoring program, and now am to the point where I’m looking at ways to provide information. The old fashioned scoresheets are fine, but to tell the truth, its difficult gleaning all but the most basic information from them, even when you can read them.
I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of “Project Scoresheet”, but its pretty much the way the people who gather MLB data score games. Over the last 3 years or so I’ve been using a hybrid of that and the old way, but there’s just no way to get the amount of data out of the old way using the computer, that I need to do all the things I like to see get done. So, I have the computer scoring the game using that new format. I realize it’s a bit strange, and I know its difficult at 1st to figure out what all the codes are telling you, but it doesn’t take too long to get used to it, and once you do, you wonder why everyone doesn’t use it.
What that attachment is, is really an inning by inning scoresheet of the 6th game of the WS. The way I broke it down, is I grouped all the home team batters, grouped them by inning, and then by the pitchers.
Inside the batter information is something called “Runners”. What that shows, is where the runners were when that at bat was over. The things on the right are the things that make this way so much easier to get a picture of what took place. And underneath is what happened on each pitch.
There are lots of things that can take place every at bat, but they really take place at only 3 different times, before the play took place, the actual play, and something that took place after the play. For instance. The 1st batter in the 1st inning was Ian Kinsler. He walked as is shown by the BB(804). The 804 is the fielder, in this case the pitcher.
The next batter was Elvis Andrus. When he put the ball in play, there was a runner on 1st. His play was S7(824)/L7S. Single that was fielded by the left fielder(824). It was a Line drive to short left field. That was what the hitter did. Then after the play, or as it was going on, runner 718, moved from 1st to 2nd 1-2, on the 4th pitch, P4. Then he also went from 2nd to 3rd, 2-3P4.
The 3rd batter, Hamilton, came up with runners on 1st and 3rd. He grounded a single to right, between 1st and 2nd, and got an RBI, S9(821)/G43/RBI. Runner 718 scored on the 1st pitch, 718R/3-HP1, and runner 715 went to 2nd. 715R/1-2P1.
Young struck out, with 904 being the pitcher and 813 the catcher. Beltre did the same thing, then Cruz grounded out 5-3 on a ball hit to 3rd, 5(815)3(817)/G5.
That’s basically all it is, all the way through. This way its easy to see exactly what took place.
So if you would, go through it and see if its such a foreign format that you couldn’t get anything out of it at all. To me, it would be a super easy way to let you have an accurate picture of what took place in the game.
Anyway, I’d appreciate any input anyone might have.
http://www.infosports.com/scor...ages/scoresheet1.pdf
Thanx
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