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 keep an ongoing “box” chart that records wins and losses for each team against the other team.
The team v. team chart serves two useful purposes.
First, it provides you a snapshot of how a particular team is performing against another team.
In the above example (an 1911 American League replay), the league-leading Philadelphia Athletics have recorded five or more wins over the Red Sox, the Highlanders (they weren’t the Yankees yet), the Senators and the White Sox. At the other end of the spectrum, the last place St. Louis Browns have lost five games to everyone but the A’s. Feel free to download the team vs. team Excel file here.
Second, if you have doubts about your standings, you can always add up the wins and losses to double-check the accuracy of your standings. Or vice-versa, you can check your team v. team records versus the won-lost records to see if they match up.
Next: Researching and adhering to player usage at positions played.
Team v. team is one thing I don’t actively don’t keep track of. I don’t suppose it would be that difficult to do so. The data is there. It just needs to be “massaged” and displayed.
thanks as always, Rod!!
I find this an indispensable part of any replay! It makes it fun to look back and see how the teams match up, and as you have pointed out, it can save LOTS of time and effort in spotting an error and fixing it. This happened to me just recently. All I had to do was check the other team to spot what I needed to fix.
Yeah,,,this is probably a good idea. Tom, when are you going to provide the Excel worksheet for downlaod that does this ha ha ?
Fair enough, Chuck. One of these days, I’ll clean it up and make it available. Maybe a project for this weekend. :)
The referenced wins are not seen as the table is empty. Please update so I can see how this works.