High school stats question

[nixxy311]

Our stats get exported to MaxPreps as soon as I say Game Over in GC - and it's apparently a huge pain to change.

 

[nixxy311]

Yeah that sucks. DD’s coach re-scores games on GC sometimes but that is because the person who runs it doesn’t know the difference between a hit and a FC..

DD's TB team had someone doing the books when DD first joined and I saw her giving everyone hits that were FCs. I emailed the coach and said I like to keep score and if she needed someone I'd do it. So after that I became official scorekeeper. I've been doing the books since DD was in 10U.
But we are in 16U - by now these parents should know how to score??

Last season I wasn't official for the varsity team so I kept mine own to get DDs stats. But there was one game that I looked at the stats they had posted after and noticed things seemed wrong. Turns out - I guess GC wasn't working during the game for them so they just tried to do it from memory? I sent him my entire play by play so they fixed the stats at least in GC. It was funny because the newspaper write up that night/early morning had mentions of hits that weren't reflected in their original scoring of it. I am not sure how the newspaper gets their data.

 

[_MIA_]

But we are in 16U - by now these parents should know how to score??

You would be amazed about how little some parents pick up about the game even after their kid has played roughly 500 TB games..

 

[canyonjoe]

This is just me personally, but I always used stats to verify if what I think is happening really is. When you play a lot of games you can sometimes miss someone who is getting walked a lot because it's not really memorable. On the other hand the kid who hits a few bombs seems like they are just killing it until you realize they aren't doing anything the rest of the time. While I really don't like players who K often I also don't think just not K'ing is that big of a stat. You might be just making contact with pitchers pitches but not doing anything with it (not saying your DD is doing that). Since here walks are also way down it's just something to look at.

 

[Nimrod]

DD was tied for 2nd in BAA - her OPS was lower because while she got on she didn't have a lot of XBH. Which was one thing the HC wanted her to work on. But the people above her were our better hitters so that all made sense. Her OBP was 4th but she actually didn't get walked as much as she usually does - I had talked in another post about how her avg PS/PA was the lowest on the team ~3. ...

What is BAA and PS/PA?

A coach will play who he/she believes gives the team the best chance of winning. Statistics reflect what players have done but don't necessarily predict how they will do in the future or how good they really are, especially when the samples are low. 'Hype' is not always a bad thing. Freddie Freeman hit .235 through the first 50 games last season. The Braves' manager believed the hype and kept Freeman high in the lineup. He was the best hitter in the NL over the next 100 games. A coach would be foolish to make the lineup entirely off statistics over a short high school season. That said, coaches make all sorts of bad lineup decisions. We all know that. I'd just advise that no matter how a coach does the lineup and batting order, there's a good chance that most parents would've done it another way and are convinced that certain players or overrated or underrated. So I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[Eric F]

What is BAA and PS/PA?

BAA is usually Batting Average Against (a pitching stat). Not sure how that applies here.
PS/PS is Pitches Seen per Plate Appearance. For this player, combined with low Ks, it seems that they attack early and put the ball in play almost every time. Some of the other numbers will paint the picture of how that's working out.

 

[GunnerShotgun]

For tournament we go by OBP with slight adjustments bade for DP/FL/EH. Have a higher OBP and you move up the next game. The lineup makes itself.

For school ball it's more difficult as you have the one game and the quality of pitching varies so much game to game.

We don't use gut feeling, eyeball test, or hype. You are what your OBP says you are.

 

[Lightning]

You would be amazed about how little some parents pick up about the game even after their kid has played roughly 500 TB games..

Or coaches.

 

[_MIA_]

Or coaches.

Very true

 

[Eric F]

For tournament we go by OBP with slight adjustments bade for DP/FL/EH. Have a higher OBP and you move up the next game. The lineup makes itself.

For school ball it's more difficult as you have the one game and the quality of pitching varies so much game to game.

We don't use gut feeling, eyeball test, or hype. You are what your OBP says you are.

Are you really shuffling your lineup on a game-by-game basis based on one stat?

By that approach, if the #3 batter smashes a line drive that the CF just manages to grab, and hits a sac fly to RF that plates the game-winning run, her OBP is .000 for that game. Next game she gets bumped down the lineup. Ridiculous.