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.
Think of the Replay binder book as a place where the Big Picture of your replay can reside. This information could include:
- Team vs. team results (each team’s W-L against other teams)
- Positions played (who played which positions and how many games at a particular position)
- Pitching rotation on a day-by-day basis
- Month by month results (W-L, home, away, total)
- Transactions (dates, special notes on when deals occurred in real life)
- Injuries and ejections (who was injured, when, how long, circumstances)
- Real life (actual statistical information relevant to your replay, like standings, stats from whatever replay you are conducting)
How you organize your sections is entirely up to you and what you view as most interesting or important to your replay. There’s no one way or right way to organize the sections. The important point is to have some kind of home that organizes what information is most valuable to you.
Does that mean you keep everything in the binder book?
Nope. It’s likely you will only keep information that remains relatively constant, but important enough to keep by your side when you want to consult the information in the binder book.
For example, I keep my daily standings and day-by-day scores on separate documents, simply because I pick these up and write on them constantly. Keeping this ever-changing information in the binder book, to me, is a little cumbersome.
Once a “month” is completed, however, the day-by-day scores are stored in the binder book, which avoids misplacing or losing the scores (which are also backed up in my box score notebook).
Next: The team v. team section of your Replay binder book
Yep, I’d be lost without my binder book. I’m like you, I keep the standings separately, but keep most of my season stuff in the binder and also some stuff from other replays that I may want to know, like my list of no-hitters. Also, I keep my past replay stuff in folders close at hand, in case i want to know a certain pitcher’s “career” record (for me), or something similar.
Again, thanks for the excellent articles.