If you don't keep score, I'd recommend you look into it.
I'm going to try doing the Project Scoresheet this year and when I have some free time, I'll make a C++ program to record all the data.
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I wasn't trying to offend, just don't see the reasoning in it..
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Originally Posted by Parker McDonald
1. You could save it
2. It's fun
3. You could notice trends in the game that an announce might not mention
Save it for what though? I'm not trying to be rude, I see people do it all the time I just don't see the purpose of it? Do you go back and reference it? Doesn't baseball reference record all that data?
I was surprised that people like Joe Buck and other such television broadcasters keep score while they're calling the game. Again, I only do the play by play casually for the forums for leisure purposes, couldn't do that as a full-time job
I wasn't trying to offend, just don't see the reasoning in it..
The reasoning is because I find it enjoyable. It's nice to have a record of what is going on, but primarily it's just something I've come to associate with being at a baseball game and still enjoy doing.
I wasn't trying to offend, just don't see the reasoning in it..
Save it for what though? I'm not trying to be rude, I see people do it all the time I just don't see the purpose of it? Do you go back and reference it? Doesn't baseball reference record all that data?
Do you not save anything? Do you save tickets to a hockey game? Sometimes I go back to reference it. And no, you can't find everything that's on a scorecard on Baseball-Reference. There's much more situational things on a scorecard like who's on base during an AB, the pitch count--which not everyone keeps track of, but I do--, and much more. I just started to save my scorecards and I have only two seasons even though I've been doing them for about ten years and I've probably looked at them about five times. Saving scorecards is like saving pictures.
I was surprised that people like Joe Buck and other such television broadcasters keep score while they're calling the game. Again, I only do the play by play casually for the forums for leisure purposes, couldn't do that as a full-time job
I do play-by-play for a living; keeping score was the first thing I had to learn about covering baseball. It's especially vital in college and the minors, where they don't have stat monitors that you can readily reference. Everybody has their own little idiosyncrasies on the scorebook, too, so one could theoretically take that system on the road rather than having to adjust to someone else's system.
When a broadcaster says, "So-and-so is 0 for 3 tonight, flied out to right, grounded out to short, and struck out looking," he's referencing his scorebook, and will almost always be able to tell you the count when each out was recorded. The guys who are really good can get the pitch counts for each guy on the mound, but I can't keep a train of thought running in the background like that for five or six innings.
