Friday, April 11, 2014
Defense Of Scoring Decision by Havelock Hewes
Critical feedback from a scoring decision I made Sunday was worthy of an explanation. Zach Nilva hit a soft liner to short centerfield. My reading of the play was that the centerfielder, Eric Schulman, got a good jump on the ball and was running to catch it. He extended his glove, while running, and the ball bounced off his glove. This was a play that could have been scored either way. I applied our scoring rubric of "average difficulty and average skills." I believe most outfielders would not have gotten to the ball and because Eric was running and extending his arm to catch the ball it was not an easy play.
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you continue to go against the grain
eric ran and had a play on it...he made an error...by his own omission
he did not have to leave his feet or dive to get there-he ran and not at full speed got to the ball and misplayed it
it was an error from what i saw and there were around 10 people who also saw and thought it was an error
if you can't tell an error from a hit you should not be scoring
and if 10 people say its an error including the player who made the error, guess what?? it's a f'ing error
and the standard has always been an above average player like phil kotik...but again you completely eschew the facts to cover your ass
i recommend that the play be changed to an error in the book and i also recommend that if 10 people tell that you were wrong on the scoring, then change the scoring.
otherwise you will not be scoring the games
jeffrey appell
( i don't make anonymous posts)
anonymous said ....
uncertainty is the grain of salt by which havelock undoubtedly goes against in a manner that is most unpredictable, and unbeknownst to all of us he actually does it unconsciously. So unfortunately it's very uncontrollable.
Being unruly and unappreciative towards it won't make it go away, it is actually unproductive, if not counter -productive.
I don't make anonymous posts either
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