2018 Scoresheets

Here it is, the long-awaited update to the 2013 Scoresheet!


Download from One Drive here

Okay, perhaps you haven't been waiting that long...

Updated Features include re-sized columns throughout, giving more room for players' names. I've also added notation for Game Score in the Pitchers faced section - there are two spaces for both versions of Game Score, if you're into that sort of thing.

Post with previous versions of Scoresheets is here.

Coming soon...some more "how-to" posts on Team RISP and Individual LOB.

As always, if you like my scoresheets and use them because you like them so much, please spread the word. I appreciate any and all useful feedback you can muster up.

2013 Scoresheets

As the offseason slips deeper into the past, and with pitchers and catchers reporting very, very soon, it’s time to dust off the clipboard and get ramped up for a new baseball season.  Soon and very soon, we are going to see some baseball.  And I’m ready to score!!

Each year I focus on ‘sharpening the saw’ in regards to a specific aspect of my scorekeeping skills…last season, I decided to track and observe LOB (left on base) and Team RISP (Runners In Scoring Position) and that went very well.  I added a column at the end of the combined stats tabs and used it to tally this information (as well as Total Bases) as the game progressed.  It went roughly at first, but it didn’t take long to get the hang of it.

Here’s the final version of this season’s scoresheet…the only design changes were the addition of the LOB/TB columns, and the accompanying 2oRBI, RISP2o, and TmRISP boxes below those columns. 

2013 Scoresheet

This download is FREE and it always will be…you can still download last season’s prototype posted HERE and my previous versions are posted HERE, all on my Google Drive.

 If you download the sheet and like to use it, please spread the word and let me know.  If you have any ideas for improvement and/or questions about its use, don’t hesitate to speak up…either way, leave a comment below!

This year, I’m implementing a new method of counting pitches that allows me to not only track the types (ball, swinging strike, foul, called strike, etc) but also the order of the pitches.  I’ve tried a few different methods and I think I’ve got a solid solution in place.  I will introduce this methodology in my new series, “For Those of You Scoring at Home.”  I realize I promised to start this last year, but I had some challenges in how I wanted to present the information, how to go about plotting examples, and things of this nature.  Fortunately, I’m ready now and this is the year I’ll get started.

“For Those of You Scoring at Home” will debut soon with a 2-part post that will detail my methods of counting pitches, using my customized scoresheets.  Part one will cover the method I’ve been using for the past several years.  Part two will cover the new method I’ll be using this season to count the pitches and maintain the order of those pitches for each plate appearance.

Conversation with a Security Officer posing as a Baseball Fan

This is somewhat out-of-character from my typical entries here, and I am still obscenely busy at work, which is adding a hitch to my blogging gitalong, but I couldn't resist taking a break from my daily fire extinguisher work to share this moment of light hilarity with my friends and readers.

Disclaimer: This is in no way, shape, or form a general knock against Security Officers in general...where I work, there are several of these guys are gals who are extraordinary people and serve as some of the best workplace conversation and camaraderie you can imagine.  This is a specific knock against one fellow, who shall remain nameless.  The photo below is a reasonable Google Image representation of this particular chap...not an actual photo of him (photos in the warehouse are verboten).  Please show inordinate amounts of love and respect to your local Security Officer, even if they turn out to be this guy.

Fortunately, Kirk the Security Officer is not a regular in the warehouse in which I work on a daily basis. He's a "floater," rotating to different posts for breaks or when a "regular" is out for the day.  I've seen Kirk in here for years, talked to him several times, and I've found that he is one of the biggest baseball idiots I've ever encountered.  Some of our chats have been better than the one we had today, and some of them haven't been as good.  I typically don't engage in baseball talk with 'typical' baseball fans, as my point of view is my own and my frame of reference is also different...some folks (including "regular" Security Officers here) that isn't the case, I know what their frame of reference is, and I keep our light discussion on that level. Kirk is an exception, he's so clueless I sometimes lead him into discussions where I'm sure he will 'stun' me with his baffling baseball intelligence, today was a good day for this.

That being said, I need relief from current events of my job right away, and I'm presenting this chat with Kirk (not his real name) in its entirety, writing as it just occurred a few minutes ago, as intact as I can muster. Prepare to be blown away, profoundly.

Kirk (as I pass through checkpoint with my Cubs lanyard): Hey, hey there he is...the Cubby guy!  How are your Cubs doing now?
Me: Pretty much near the bottom, as expected!

Kirk: Ha ha! That's where they always are!
Me: C'mon, not really...the past few years, for sure, but that's just not the case.

Kirk: Bullshit! (uttered emphatically) They have been a sucko team for a long time!
Me: Really? Where do you come up with this?

Kirk: Well, they haven't won a World Series in almost a hundred years!
Me: Actually, it's been over a hundred years...

Kirk: There you go!
Me: ...But, that doesn't mean they've sucked for as long, does it?

Kirk: Of course it does!
Me: The Texas Rangers didn't win a World Series last year, or the year before, but that certainly doesn't mean they are a "sucko team," right?

Kirk: The Cardinals are much better!>
Me: Ah, OK...so you are a Cardinals fan?

Kirk: No (shakes head emphatically)
Me: So who is your favorite team?

Kirk: I like the Cardinals.
Me: You just said you weren't a Cardinals fan!

Kirk: That's right, but I like the Cardinals. And the Braves.
Me: Ah ha! The BRAAHVOES!! So, when was the last time they won a World Series?

Kirk: (pausing) Just a few years ago!
Me: No, it was 1995, Kirk...17 years ago.

Kirk: No, they won in 2005!
Me: Dude, that was the White Sox...the Braves were in the World Series in 1999 but lost to the Yankees, I believe that was the last time they made it that far.

Kirk: Well, they have that going for them.
Me: So, does that mean they suck also?

Kirk: (squirming) Yeah, well...I see those offseason moves for the Cubs are really paying off!
Me: I think those were done not to win ballgames, but to secure players who would have trade value at the deadline.

Kirk: Ha ha, don't give me that.  You Cubs fans are all the same! You know what their problem is? They don't draft good players.
Me: Well, if you look at it from a high level, they have the same luck or dumb luck as any other team...the Braves included.

Kirk: Baseball teams who draft outfielders, that's the key to success.
Me: What was that?

Kirk: Teams don't draft enough outfielders...if they draft and trade for outfielders, they are always better.
Me: Really?

I'm not making this up.

Kirk: Most organizations have it all wrong. What they need to do is draft outfielders one year, then draft infielders the next year.  Then in two years, they have a great lineup.

Me: Oh, come on, Kirk.  You're telling me that the Nationals drafted an outfielder last year, and by drafting a pitcher in the first round the year before, they made a mistake?

Kirk: Who was that?
Me: Stephen Strasburg.

Kirk: He's great.
Me: Yeah, but what do you think?

Kirk: Did they draft infielders this year?
Me: If they did, they won't be playing for a few years...come on, I'm curious...I need to know how this works, in your mind.  I could pass the tip on to the Cubs and they can win a World Series!

Kirk: Man, that'll never happen. They will always suck.
Me: Well, you never know.  So who's going to win the World Series this year?

Kirk: The Nationals.
Me: What if they didn't draft any infielders this year? Do they need to trade for infielders at the deadline?

Kirk: (pauses, shakes his head) Oh boy, the Cubs suck.
Me: OK, Kirk...you're the man!

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