We ran a ‘Keeping Score Season’ last February and all of the articles can be found via the link in the main menu above. Two of my main contributions were scorecards that you can download and use, an ‘Innings’ scorecard and a ‘Reference’ scorecard, alongside some completed examples. The scorecards can be used when keeping score while following traditional ‘fan’ systems, as explained in my Baseball Basics for Brits guide.
One of the reasons why I enjoyed putting the ‘Season’ together so much was that it combined my ‘fan’ perspective with the ‘official scorer’ perspective from Joe. Official scorers use the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) method of keeping score and it’s something that I didn’t know a great deal about until Joe enlightened me. I’m always keen to learn about new scoring methods and, while learning the IBAF system, I’ve created my own version of an A4-sized scorecard that can be used with this method. Continue reading
