Replayers wrestle with how to govern player usage during a replay. There is no precise or totally correct answer. Your choice depends solely on how much work you want to put into the replay and how much precision or realism you want to try and generate. Any once of the…
The information on APBA baseball cards and the APBA’s yellow lineup sheet only gives you a limited amount of information. Fortunately, with the explosion of SABRmetrics, there is more information now available than anyone can digest. For replayers, the info available is great for helping to create guidelines for player…
It took me a while to figure this out, but a section that will help you better enjoy your replay (and save some time when the Replay is finished) is to record the results of team vs. team competition. In other words, what’s one team done against another team? I…
Your replay binder book generally can serve as Ground Zero for key information related to your replay. Keeping key information in the binder book cuts down on the amount of paper you will have flying around. It provides you a “home” you can use to help keep your replay organized.…
Keeping your key information in one place is one way to better organize your replay. Start with an all-encompassing three-ring D binder book. There are lots of different sizes, but I use a one-and-a-half inch binder book. The D-ring specification may sound picky, but when you start going back and…
In the past few blogs, we have stress the importance of organizing and maintaining accuracy in recording game scores on a day-by-day basis and keeping one’s standings up to date and accurate. Fall short in either area and count on eventually having to pore through your records trying to accurately…
The most important statistic you can keep in your replay is the daily standings. Maintaining daily standings sound easy. It is surprising, however, how easily one can transpose a number or flip-flop a win or a loss. Once an error occurs, it will continue replicate itself in your daily standings…
Replays require a systematic approach to compiling information. Think about how much information you will be recording: Box scores for as many games are you are playing in your replay Daily standings for your replay Batting and pitching records for several hundred individual players Team batting and pitching records…
(click image for pdf version of box score) The selection of a box score format is a key decision in setting up your system for conducting a replay. The format you choose has to be understandable, easy to record and, most important, easily convertible to a systematic cumulative stat-keeping…
How you keep the box scores for the games in your replay is a very personal selection. The number of box score formats available is endless. Google box score formats and you get hundreds of examples of different formats that are available. Some questions worth considering before you settle on…