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 linear representation in the Chadwick narratives.
Top of the 2nd Alex Rios 0- 0 (---0): S Aaron Hill 0- 0 (--x0): K Eliezer Alfonzo 0- 0 (--x1): WP.1-2 Eliezer Alfonzo 0- 0 (-x-1): 8 Reed Johnson 0- 0 (-x-2): D8.2-H John McDonald 1- 0 (-x-2): 8
The linear representation of the baserunners would make the scoring box shorter, and would allow everything to be done with rectangles.
The result so far is scoresheet 27 (PDF file). I used NeoOffice to create it. The key is to export the file as DPF. Otherwise, the lines are printed much too thick.
The little box in the top right is for out number or run scored.
Instead of the Project Scoresheet columns for play numbers of subs, I’ll try a separate set of fields to list them in order.
I’d like to try a version that’s all cyan, but it’s a tedious process to change all the borders.