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Originally posted by LDUB
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Originally posted by LilLeaguer
Perhaps it would be best to call it a roster sheet. Since this is a district tournament, each team has a pre-approved roster. Typically, each player is listed on the roster, with a notation if she cannot play (do to injury or absence, e.g.). Additionally, the players that are ineligible to pitch (due to pitching in prior days) are marked as well. The starting players are listed first, and the reserves at the bottom of the sheet. The original positions are also noted, but I only care about the batting order and the pitcher. The TD approves the roster sheets before the game begins and delivers them to the UiC before game time. I can ask her any questions I have at that time.
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What if this is not a torunament? Then you would have a normal lineup card.
Now that I understand how the system works, I see that it is not your job even more.
The TD has the lineup before you do. The TD gives you the lineup, not the maanager. I assume the TD give a copy of the lineup to the scorer too.
So now the scorer has all the info needed to keep track of minimum play and pitching limits. Why do you need to be involved? Is the scorer so bad at doing his job that you need to help him with it?
Minimum play has nothing to do with the game at all. Therefore the umpire has no reason to keep track of it.
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During regular season Little League, the umpire is clearly and unequivocally NOT responsible for tracking MPR. MPR is a regulation, not a playing rule, and it is not protestable. MPR violations are a matter for the board of directors to handle.
During Little League tournament play, things change. Tournament rules provide for player re-entry, but ONLY after the player they are replacing has played 3 consecutive defensive outs and batted at least once, which happens to be exactly the mandatory play requirement; therefore, the rule is described as "players can re-enter when their sub has met MPR."
Since the legality of all substitutions is a function of the umpire's lineup responsibilities, you can say with some accuracy the umpire must "be involved in" policing MPR in Little League tournament play. In my experience, this responsibility is typically discharged with considerable assistance from the official scorer.