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September 02, 2008
Better Living Through More Bureaucracy
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Doug Melvin now wants a panel of official scorers at each game. Soon we'll hear the call for replays on more questionable events, the call for six umpires in a game, drug testers in every dugout, etc. There will be more people officiating the game than playing it.

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April 09, 2007
Gameday Problems
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Rob McMillin writes:

David -- I don't normally flog my blog or anything thereon, but I've heard so many gripes about the new MLB Gameday (slow, big memory consumer, gets slower as the game progresses, takes up too much screen real estate) that I decided to do something about it. As a daily feature on 6-4-2, I'm going to start providing retro Gameday links to all the day's games. This should mostly be working; there are probably a couple teams for which this won't work because of the sloppy way that MLBAM chose to build their site (there are multiple conflicting team IDs used in various segments), and I'll fix those as I find them. All the two-team city teams are working correctly, and most of the rest of them are okay, too.

The first such post is here:

http://6-4-2.blogspot.com/2007/04/dodgers-home-opener-gift-retro-gameday.html

I thought your readers might appreciate knowing.

Thaks, Rob!

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April 05, 2006
Swing Scoring
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The other day I mentioned Marshall Votta's scoring project. He's received some interest, so he's built a site dedicated to the project, Swing Score. He's still interested in getting all the teams covered, so stop by if you'd like to help. Here's an explanation of the system.

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August 08, 2005
Distributed Scoring System -- Support Tables
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Here's the first document in the series. I attempted to specify the support tables; the tables that describe leagues, teams, players and the information that goes with them. Feel free to leave improvements in the comments. Be picky.

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More Distributed Scoring
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About a month ago I introduced the idea of developing a system to score games using a web based distrbuted scoring system. It was very well received. I'm going to work on specifications for this over the next week. I'll post as I develop parts of the specs.

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