from Amazon
Friday, April 27, 2007
Project Scoresheet scoring system sucks?
Patriot discusses various scoring systems. He rightfully points out that there’s no one single ultimate scoring system. As anyone who’s looked at the play-by-play scoring system knows, the big gap is not knowing where a particular runner is at all times. He’s right when he says:
Project Scoresheet’s goal was to collect data for all major league games, and to disseminate it efficiently. The straight sequential, no backtracking approach would work very well for inputting games into a computer. So judged by the standard of doing what Project Scoresheet needed to do, the system is fine.
He’s also right when he says:
So while PS eliminates, almost perfectly, recording backtracking, it introduces a large amount of readback backtracking with respect to the identity of the baserunners, and it takes away a lot of the ability to quickly describe the situation at the moment that it occurs. I can easily accept that it is the fastest way to score, or the easiest to input into a computer, but as an everyday-use scoring method, it gets an F from me.
Recent comments
Older comments
Page 1 of 344 pages 1 2 3 > Last »Complete Archive – By Category
Complete Archive – By Date