Baseball Scorekeeping

As you’ll find from the old topic on Celsius1414 (where I was doing my baseball writing before Trolley Dodger came online), I’ve been reading up on and teaching myself baseball scorekeeping since before last season. I figure from now on, scorekeeping-related posts will likely be showing up here rather than there.

Near the end of the regular season last year, I tried out a somewhat simplified version of the Plain Paper Scorekeeping method created by Alex Reisner and wound up using it throughout the playoffs.

I didn’t bother practicing during spring training, as it’s a pain with all the substitutions in a typical preseason game. So naturally I forgot about it until sitting down to watch my first Dodger game of the season. Just before first pitch, I did a hurried crash course that I pretty well had down by the end of the game, taking some of the less common occurrences into account.

Here’s some links gleaned from the older material in case you’re interested in reading more.