umpire's lineup card

[Andy]

Here is my two cents - Find something that works for you! (Where have I heard that before?)

When I started, I used a card with the lineup written in a straight line just like it is entered in the scorebook. As each player rotated back to serve, I would place a tick mark next to her number. This allowed me to identify the server at a glance and know that the three numbers under or following the server were front row and the two numbers above the server were back row.

For the last few years, I have not used a lineup card. The trick that I learned that has helped me the most is to identfy the setter and her "opposite" player. I then try to remember two other opposite players. I have discovered that most alignment calls that I make as R2 involve the setter.

Something that you said in your orignal message really got me to thinking, but I'll start another thread.