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Your league roster is posted on your league's web page. If you have lost your league's web address you can go to list of league links for a list of links to all our leagues.
When creating your lineup you might want to try using the lineup card feature on your league's web page - we think/hope that you will find using that feature is the easiest way to create and send in a lineup. Also, lineup changes sent in using the web based lineup form are free - lineups sent in any other way (by regular e-mail, fax or postal mail) are $5. And once again, when sending lineups from the web, after hitting the send button you should see a message that says 'lineup successfully sent to the Scoresheet Office'. If you do not see that message then your lineup was most likely NOT successfully sent.
Instructions for filling out the lineup card, along with a sample lineup, were included with the draft/rules packet. If you did not get that printed draft/rules packet and would like one sent to you, please let us know. A sample lineup card and instructions are also on our web site. Links to that info can be found at: list of baseball links along with links to the complete rules packet.
Don't forget to include your league name and team number on any lineup cards you turn in. If you need more blanks during the season just let us know and we will send you some. If you are out of blanks and want to make a lineup change, use any paper you want, but please make sure you use the same column order as our lineup cards. Also, it is fine with us if you make copies of these blank lineup cards (just ignore our copyright as long as you are using these forms for Scoresheet teams.) And please include Scoresheet player numbers on your lineups and trade reports!
Scoresheet games are played on Mondays, using the previous week's major league stats (Mon-Sun.) Lineup card changes for that week's Scoresheet games must be made before you see how your players do in the majors that week, meaning the cards must be postmarked (or faxed or e-mailed) before any of that week's major league games begin on Monday. For example, Scoresheet Baseball games played on our computer on Monday, May 14th use major league stats from Monday, May 7th thru Sunday, May 13th. Thus the lineup you want used for Scoresheet games played by the computer on monday night May 14th would have to be submitted (postmarked, faxed or e-mailed) by/before 4 PM Monday, May 7th. And please, make any lineup changes BEFORE any major league games begin on Monday. You need to fill out and send in your lineup BEFORE any games are played in the majors on Monday. Even if you are sending your lineup by fax or e-mail it has to be sent by 4 PM Pacific time to be used for that week's games. If you send in a lineup card after 4 PM Monday it will be used for the following week's games. **Note: The major league games played Sunday April 1st WILL count as part of the stats used for the week 1 games (so for the first week we ask owners to turn in their initial lineups by/before Saturday, March 31st, or at the latest by Sunday morning the 1st.)
TRADES: The way to report trades is to include a note, listing the players traded, and the team you traded with, with your lineup card, OR you can send a trade report from your league's web page. When you make a trade you will probably want to turn in a new lineup with the old players off of it, and the new players on. Please do not report trades over the phone - a note with your lineup is much preferred. We do need to hear from BOTH of the owners involved in the trade before we can put it into effect. Please, for everyone's sake, report any trades you are involved in the SAME WEEK you make the trade. Trades made after your draft is completed should just be included with your week 1 lineup card, or sent from the web.
As stated in the draft packet, you can use players all season at the positions they are listed at in the draft packet, with their listed fielding range. We will qualify players at new positions during the season once they have played 10 games at that position in the majors. We even occasionally qualify a guy at a new position before he has played 10 games there if it is clearly going to be his new main position. This means we may also qualify a player at a new position in time for the very first week's games if he starts the first week there, and that is clearly going to be his main position. For instance, if Bill Hall really opens the season as the everyday Brewers center fielder, then you could play him in the outfield on your first lineup card without an out-of-position penalty.
FREE AGENTS: To avoid forcing you to make lineup changes every week, which take a lot of time and does incur lineup change fees, Scoresheet does NOT have weekly free agent pickups. Instead we have 2 mid-season drafts with each team receiving 4 players. The first of these is in early May, the second in July. Details will follow in upcoming weekly newsletters.
You do not need to send in a new lineup card every week. The game automatically takes care of injuries, you only need to send in a new lineup card if you want to change starters for reserves, change the batting order, pitching rotation, or change strategies. (Of course, if you make a trade you'll probably want to send in a new lineup card with the new players included.) If you do want to make a lineup change then those new lineups are free *as long as* they are sent in using your league's web page's lineup form. Please include $5.00 with any new lineup cards you send in during the season, or only $3.00 if you only change one side of the card, for any lineups you send in NOT using the web lineup form. And whether you send your lineups from the web, by regular e-mail, by fax or using postal mail, the point of a 4 PM (Pacific time) Monday postmark deadline is that you must turn in your lineup BEFORE you see how your players are doing that week in the majors. Any lineups sent to us after that week's MLB games have started on Monday will NOT take affect until the following week.
Once again, please, send in (postmark, fax or e-mail) your initial lineup card on, or before, Saturday, March 31st! If we do not get your lineup card by Monday, April 9th, (or if it was submitted after the week one deadline), we will have to use a standard lineup for you, which means we will simply list players in the order you drafted them, with no platooning. In short, your team will still participate in league games, but using one of our standard lineups will definitely lower your chances of winning games. Your team will certainly do better if you turn in your own week 1 lineup!
Please remember that even though you have drafted a 35 man roster you can only list 30 players on a lineup card. You DO retain the rights to the players you do not list on the lineup, they form kind of a taxi squad. Players on your 'taxi squad' will come in and play for you before we shuffle players out of position, or go to AAA players. If you have more than one player at the same position on your taxi squad they will appear in order of season to date major league playing time.
During a 7 game week we let your players bat and pitch a little more than they did that week in the majors. We also carry over unused pitcher stats from week to week. (This only applies if you had scheduled a pitcher to start, and he started twice in the majors and only once for you that week. In that instance a pitcher may get two Scoresheet starts in a future week even if he only had one major league start in that future week.) Carry overs do NOT happen if the reason a guy played less in Scoresheet that week is because you had him on the bench, or in the bullpen, and the opportunity to play did not come up. Predicting how a player will do is what this game is about. If you bench a guy and he goes out and hits 5 home runs that week for his major league team then you will miss out on those HRs! When you make out your lineup card you should use players based on what you believe they WILL do in upcoming weeks, NOT what they did in past weeks. A couple of weeks into the season we will devote most of a newsletter to the use of carry over stats and 'luck-balancing' in the Scoresheet game program - it will make much more sense after you see a few weeks of game results.
Once the season gets rolling we generally do all of our mailings (both postal and electronic) on Tuesday mornings. With results getting mailed on Tuesdays, even owners on the East Coast should get their weekly results by Friday each week. Unfortunately, we have found things do not always go smoothly the first week of the season. Most weeks we only get lineup changes from 1/4 to 1/5 of the owners, but the first week we have to enter in ALL of the lineups. So, the first week's e-mail results will probably not go out until Thursday afternoon, April 12th (instead of the usual Tuesday), and the week 1 reports will also probably not be on the web until Thursday evening. (Though we will certainly be working our rear ends off to do our best to get them out earlier!) What many other services do is not mail out results at all the first week, and then just mail out 2 week's worth of games the second week of the season. But we know that everyone is anxious to see their first results, so we work very hard to get them out as quickly as possible. By week 2 things should be on the normal schedule of sending reports out on Tuesdays.
As the season goes on we would welcome any suggestions, questions, or criticisms you care to send us. Though please - the 2 weeks just before the season starts and the first week or two of the season are a very busy time! Unless it is unavoidable we would greatly appreciate it if you held off on calling for the next few weeks. I know you are all anxious to see your first results - so are we!! But please realize we are working long hours, as hard and fast as we can. During the season the best time to call is Monday thru Saturday, from 9:00 A.M. till 5:30 P.M., Pacific time. We keep very flexible hours, if you miss us please leave a message and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Once again, we are not set up to make lineup changes or to give weekly results over the phone (sorry!)
Have a great season! - The Scoresheet Gang
P.S. We do have a few available (orphaned) teams in our continuing leagues. Once their drafts are done, those teams can be had for only $39. Go to list of available baseball teams to see team rosters.
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