When a runner tries to advance after the ball gets away from the catcher, and it’s not ruled a Wild Pitch, two things can happen. If the runner advances safely, the catcher is charged with a Passed Ball. If the runner is thrown out it’s simply an out. You might think the second case is [...]

I learned that the guys who enter the live MLB data are stringers and that they use an app called “Total Baseball.” Found this on the excellent Fungoes Blog. The proprietor there, Pip, does the duty at B*sch. There’s a link there to a good article at THT that describes what these guys do.

I actually scored this one live. The whole damn thing. Got it all on one sheet, though! box score

Thought I might try to input all the Perfectos games into Chadwick. Some notes on the process.

I’ve been reading up on earned run rules and came across a strange situation. Can a substitute pitcher face one batter who hits a home run, and have no errors committed, without that pitcher being charged with an earned run? Surprisingly to me, the answer is ‘yes.’ Here’s the sequence of an entire inning: Pitcher [...]

Tried a 1982 TBP game using Chadwick only. Procedure: copy *.ROS files from nl & al Retrosheet folders; copy one TEAM1982 file (both contain both leagues); zip those; open with Chadwick. Looks like event files are created automatically. No need to use a *.chw file. To edit a .EV* file, open from Compressed Folder, edit, [...]

Downloaded Chadwick 0.4.0 for Windoze & also the 0.5.0 utilities. Everything runs nice. Now, how to organize teams from different years. Everything’s based off the season year. I picked 2008. You need a TEAM2008 file. For Group A this looks like: BAL71,A,Baltimore,1971 Orioles NYN73,N,New York,1973 Mets OAK72,A,Oakland,1972 Athletics ATL69,N,Atlanta,1969 Braves CIN64,N,Cincinnati,1964 Reds MIN69,A,Minnesota,1969 Twins I [...]

Was unable to get Chadwick running on the new laptop. The 0.5.0 version is brand new, but seems to lack some files. Tried to go back to 0.4.0. Seems to work, but the runners are not shown in the console. Strange.

The latest version of the scoresheet. (174-kB PDF). Used Photoshop to change the color and adjust the contrast, that’s why the PDF is so big. This version has worked out well. The sub/note lines are still a big shaky. Need a better system. Also thinking of shading the run/out cell to help orientation.

For a while I toyed with the idea of using Metapost to create a custom scoresheet, after seeing this guy’s page. Metapost was hard to find documentation for, and seemed tough to figure out. Then I really took to the Situational Scorekeeping card. But it’s not very compact, and requires two pages. I like the [...]

At the Cardinals-Pirates game last Saturday, Nyjer Morgan led off in the top of the eighth. He bunted right in front of the plate, hesitated a moment, and was called out. I figured he must have run into the ball in fair territory. That doesn’t make sense, as he’s a left-handed batter. Baseball Reference scored [...]

Made a few cosmetic changes to cwbox that shrink it a bit. Removed first initials & commas. Replaced double dashes w/ colons. Copying the executable alone didn’t work for some reason. Must make install. Libraries maybe? Original renamed cwbox_orig.

Had another bash at Chadwick, now that the Retrosheet event files are back on-line. Rebuilt the 0.4.0 version & it works again. Edited /usr/local/bin/chadwick to run pythonw instead of python. Chadwick loads & displays the 1973 NL & AL event files just fine, even though I zipped them up myself. Wiped the *.EV[NA] files and [...]

Thought I’d take a look at the latest development version of Chadwick. Chadwick in is an SVN repository, so downloaded an SVN 1.44 installer. Had to build configure from the *.in files. % svn co https://chadwick.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/chadwick/trunk % chadwick_20070921 % aclocal % automake % autoconf % sh ./configure % make % sudo make install % pythonw [...]

Here are a couple of score sheets using the Situational Scorekeeping method. I modified Reisner’s design a bit. A 1973 TPB game with TPB notation. (PDF) The 7th game of the 1952 World Series with Project Scoresheet notation. (downloaded from iTunes)

I really like this Situational Scorekeeping method devised by Alex Reisner. It combines the best of the traditional & Project Scoresheet methods. The PDFs provided are very professionally formatted, and there’s great documentation. Pros: Plenty of room to write. Shows the men on base when the batter’s hitting. Easy to keep track of batters faced. [...]

Finally downloaded Chadwick, an open-source scorebook of a sort. Had little hope that it would build, but got it running, including the GUI. (The only hitch was an error message that meant I had to upgrade the Developer Tools from gcc3 to gcc4.)  The first problems involved colors. Had to change the valid entry background [...]