Undo/Redo Assistant

[ETBill]

I'll start by saying this is probably a huge effort but it doesn't hurt to ask...


A common question on the forum involves correcting a score keeping error earlier in the game. The answer typically involves undoing everything back to the time of the error and re-entering it since simply editing one play wouldn't work well with the underlying scoring engine. Understood 100%, but...

Would there be a possibility of incorporating some sort of buffer to hold what's undone? That would make redoing things at the ballpark much easier. For example, let's say (just as an example ) I make a mistake and mark a batter picked off for the third out (I must've accidentally hit that instead of pickoff attempt). The real third out is a K, which I enter but since I wasn't paying close attention to the pickoff mistake I've just entered an out for the other team. A batter or so later I notice my mistake. I can undo and correct it, but that's a lot of data to re-enter from memory. If I had a pitch by pitch listing of what I undid it would be easier to redo things and keep things like pitch counts, etc., accurate.

I hope that request makes sense, and again I do realize it would be a significant undertaking!

Thanks!

[FTMSupport]

We do have undo/redo, but just as with any undo / redo system as soon as you alter the path of the redo, it has to drop everything. A simple example to show the problem would be 2 strikeouts, 3 homeruns, then a strikeout. You undo back to the first homerun and change it to a strikeout (which makes three outs in the inning). Now you hit Redo and two home runs and a 4th strikeout are then added back in. So the next logical thing is you then say ok, when it gets to the third out, end that inning and go to the next. But now when it goes to the next inning, it is starting with the wrong batter, and in the "event sequence", you have a few of that team's at bats left, then the other team's, then a bunch more of yours.

We have been doing everything we can to make editing the even stream easier and allowing more options for editing each year, but because of each event potentially be dependent on previous events, and/or having a ripple effect on future events, it is a very difficult problem to solve. It's like the movie Back to the Future, where any change in the past ruins the space/time continuum so you have to be very careful.

We will continue looking for more ways to improve the editing.

[ETBill]

Thanks.
Actually I did think of a workaround...just email the scorecard to myself, then do the undo, then use the book to reconstruct things. Not sure why I didn't think of that before.