Below are links to our "preferred" lineup tool. These ares VERY helpful for the scorekeepers to be able to track your rotations and easily enter into scorebook and ipad.
Not required for Single A, but you may find it helpful for your positions as well, use it if it helps you.
You enter the player names in the lower right corner, it will pre-fill in the drop down boxes.
Please print and bring at least TWO copies to every game. One for the scorekeeper, and one for your dugout.
First of all, these are merely Excel spreadhseets. You may need to "enable macros" for this workbook in order for the "New" button to work... If you need to make changes to protected cells, just unprotect the template worksheet (no password). I'd turn protection back on when you're done just so you don't accidentally break something. (Adding rows or columns might screw up the drop-downs or other formulas.)
Fill in the "<Enter Player Info Here>" section with your roster, and their names will appear in the drop-down list (there's an arrow to the right of a cell when selected) for player positions each inning, and also for batting order. You can copy all of the cells in an inning and "paste special > values" into the next inning if you are only swapping a couple of positions. As you fill out an inning, the list only includes players that haven't been placed for that inning.
The Minors (A and AA) versions have 10 fielding positions. The Juniors version has a column for subs.
The "New" button will make a copy of the template and name it "Game n". You can rename the new tab if you wish (like "Apr 03 @ Dbacks" or whatever.
The idea is that you create a new worksheet for each game, so by the end of the season you have your whole season stored in the workbook. It's really helpful when reviewing play time.
If you like to use the same batting order every game, set it up in the template so it gets copied to each new game.
If you will be missing players or will be using pool players, just create a new game and make the changes to the roster for that game...
You can also just copy a game (worksheet) without using the button and tweak it for the next game.
Below the batting order, there's a summary of where each player played, and to the right of that, how many innings you have them on the bench, in the infield, outfield, pitching and catching. It's a good sanity check after you put your game together to make sure you don't have little Johnny sitting 3 innings and playing 4 in the outfield.