Use Scorecards?

endgame · 11-18-2009, 11:43 AM

After picking up a book on the history of scorekeeping in baseball ($1.00 at a discount store), I'm seriously considering starting to do this as I play out my games. One of the aspects the book says greatly changes a game experience is the familiarity you gain with the players. I think I can see it, looking at every aspect of the at-bat. It'll probably slow my gameplay time way down, but it may well be worth it.

Any of you solo players ever use a scorecard? In days of way gone by, I remember keeping score with the old Statis-Pro and it did give me that at a glance look at a player's day that the quick box score doesn't quite do.

Athletics17 · 11-18-2009, 11:56 AM

Maybe we could add that as a suggestion for 11. If you have the box score/log/scorecard?

highandoutside · 11-18-2009, 12:10 PM

I keep score and I love it. It slows down your simulation progression but you do really get to know your team. Each game takes on its own flavor and it is always a blast to look over past games. At the very least, I would keep score of the World Series so you can document those classic October moments.

Dave Hansen · 11-18-2009, 12:55 PM

I've played out all my games for many years with OOTP and kept a scorecard for each game. I have 15-20 stacks of notebook paper with 160+ games laying around in my closet and basement along with season ending summaries for each year of my league. My wife can't understand why I keep them. I say the same about all her shoes...so we just live with each others little quirks.

I can thank my dad for this enjoyment...we spent many hours together huddled around a radio in the late 50's early 60's listening to Bob Prince bring us the games of our beloved Pittsburgh Pirates. He taught me how to keep a scorecard and that added so much immersion to the radio broadcasts of the day. On the wall behind the radio was a large poster of Forbes Field that we used to help visualize the game as it was being broadcast.

I believe those experiences in the days of my youth have fueled my long term interest for many years with OOTP. My fictional players of today are as real as Maz, Groat, Face, Clemente were back in the day... and the nature of a text based simulation format helps me to re-live the days of radio in what I consider the golden age of baseball and to step back into time when life seemed so simple and unfettered.

Txs Marcus.

Malleus Dei · 11-18-2009, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Athletics17

Maybe we could add that as a suggestion for 11. If you have the box score/log/scorecard?

There's a bunch of them at The Baseball Scorecard - Downloads

Malleus Dei · 11-18-2009, 01:55 PM

Just for laughs, here's the scoresheet documentation we used back in the old Project Scoresheet days. http://www.alexreisner.com/baseball/...ation.v1.0.pdf

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highandoutside Major Leagues Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 394 Thanks: 34 Thanked 20x in 16 posts	I keep score and I love it. It slows down your simulation progression but you do really get to know your team. Each game takes on its own flavor and it is always a blast to look over past games. At the very least, I would keep score of the World Series so you can document those classic October moments.

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Dave Hansen Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 252 Thanks: 0 Thanked 15x in 8 posts	I've played out all my games for many years with OOTP and kept a scorecard for each game. I have 15-20 stacks of notebook paper with 160+ games laying around in my closet and basement along with season ending summaries for each year of my league. My wife can't understand why I keep them. I say the same about all her shoes...so we just live with each others little quirks. I can thank my dad for this enjoyment...we spent many hours together huddled around a radio in the late 50's early 60's listening to Bob Prince bring us the games of our beloved Pittsburgh Pirates. He taught me how to keep a scorecard and that added so much immersion to the radio broadcasts of the day. On the wall behind the radio was a large poster of Forbes Field that we used to help visualize the game as it was being broadcast. I believe those experiences in the days of my youth have fueled my long term interest for many years with OOTP. My fictional players of today are as real as Maz, Groat, Face, Clemente were back in the day... and the nature of a text based simulation format helps me to re-live the days of radio in what I consider the golden age of baseball and to step back into time when life seemed so simple and unfettered. Txs Marcus.