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John Carter and his Scoresheet trophies

Here I am (taken Jan. 6th, 2002) with 10 of my Scoresheet trophies. The 11th is on its way! (As of 2006, I have 14 championships in 16 years - with never more than two teams at a time - and one of them is always a rebuilding project.)

Scoresheetwiz is a combination of my personal baseball blog and a handy guide to playing Scoresheet.

 

Most of my baseball observations are sent in my real name "John Carter" or by my Scoresheet team name "slicksilksox" to the Yahoo group forum for Scoresheet players: know as scoresheet-talk. You can respond to my comments here or there by becoming a member of that forum. My lengthier more in-depth articles will appear here in Scoresheetwiz. If you see a comment by hotstatrat in Baseball Prospectus, that’s me, too. I often comment in Bill James on-line as well.

 

Scoresheet Record

 

My first perpetual league began in 1991. That league (A.L. Robinson in Scoresheet Canada) is still going strong. I won my division in that league every single year for its first 15 years finally falling to second place in 2006 where they have lingered ever since. There, I won 10 championships and maintained a W-L percentage of .634 (103-59) over a 14 year period. I had the best W-L record in Canada twice, once the best record in all of North America. That was in 2001.


I ventured into the National League (Jenkins) in 1994, one year after expansion. I took over one of the last place expansion teams. In my first year there I finished in 2nd place 1 game behind first. They stalled there for another two years until they gushed forward with back-to-back championships. Due to the time demands of expertise in both leagues, I dropped this team after that 5th season.


Later, I decided that I missed challenge of team building, so I took a 97-game-losing team in the AL Brett and brought them up past .500 in their first year. The next year they were in a hot battle for the division right up to the end of the season. The next two years they won their division. Finally, in their 6th year, they won their championship – in a four game sweep. In 2007, they fell back into 2nd place with a wild card berth then return to first in 2008 with the league’s best overall record.


Annual Leagues? I don`t play them. It misses the important dimension of viewing players with their long term value. I tried it my first year (1990) and finished in 2nd place one game out of first.


Old Timers? That first winter I tried an old-timers league and won the championship. I prefer not to play them, because I believe you need a little down time in the year. We should enjoy the winter solstice celebrations and get our mind off our teams for a month or two before the heavy winter analysis begins.


Bias?

 

I have no professional affiliation with Scoresheet Sports or any Major League team. Although, I grew up in a Connecticut suburb of New York, the most avid baseball fans I knew were in Detroit where my grandparents lived. So, I became part of the Detroit Tigers tribe. That would be from 1963 until the Juan Gonzalez trade after the 1999 season. That was the point I knew my team had completely lost their principles. I had also recently discovered the Fetzer-Campbell regime had decimated the farm system just before they sold the franchise to Tom Monahan – which explained why they had such a drought of young talent after their last championship – a year after the team was sold. Since then, the Illitch-Dombrowski regime has revived the franchise and my loyalty has been restored – to a degree. My first allegiance is to the players I acquire for my Scoresheet teams, but I try to stay objective about them, too. The Mets were my NL team as a kid, although, I had fun post college getting wrapped up in the ’77-’78 Yankees. I have lived in Toronto, now, for a quarter century and have duel citizenship. As my wife is from Montréal, les Expos had a place in my heart until they moved away. However, since I dropped my team in NL Jenkins, I haven’t kept close attention to the players in the National League. Of course, bias is to be avoided, I can’t help but come across more articles regarding the Blue Jays as a local newspaper is a part of my daily reading diet.

 

Update Schedule

 

Come explore with me the art of team building, list making, book reviews, miscellaneous baseball inspired fun, and the occasional social reflection gleaned from baseball observations. Heck, I have even veered into my other passion: music ratings. For years the Scoresheetwiz updates were published near the beginning of each month. This year the schedule has been random. I just announce the updates on scoresheet-talk and mcscoresheet.

 

-John Carter

 

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