if you are a serious travel softball team and considering the move from paper score book to electronic.. I highly recommend iScore.
it has more stats, is cheaper if you have multiple folks interested in viewing live streams, and gives you more flexibility and ownership of your data. ...
In response to original question (VA Chris) …
* agree with the statements, best seen live. but given the description and the rule citations. 2B. would be my notation.
* if one of your objectives is to standardize your scoring - consistently across player to player, game to game, and if a...
no teaching???? Is getting "real teaching" a priority for you and your DD?
If so, that would be my suggestion, find a new coach/team that provides age appropriate skills development / teaching .. see what they say.. I suspect they will fall more or less in line with conventional wisdom...
in Iscore.. Misc > Assign Error.. you can also type in a note if you want to describe in more detail
(a lessor know feature of iScore ..it also lets you place the location of the foul bowl if you "swipe" the foul button)
I am not an expert, so i am interested in understanding exactly those kind of differences
(I am not a pitcher or a catcher dad either, so no material skin in the WP/PB game)
here are Definitions of WILD PITCH I see in the "scoring rules.". ...
The big difference is ...?
thank you for...
Here is a great example of a post that is Scoring related.. posted under Softball Rules Questions..
(not sure they would have looked further to post under another heading, but it is clearly Scoring and Stats related not umpire related. )
If you are trying to keep you book consistent with conventional standards for "official scoring"..
I want to point out couple Misunderstandings in prior posts ( quoted below).
PASSED BALLS are NOT ERRORS.
You record K WP or K PB (depending on if scorer determines the pitch was wild or...
back to the topic of Scoring Rules for Fast Pitch...
Many years ago, I ran across the the Jeri Findlay NFCA publication (referenced earlier) --- and it has stood the test of time for me as the best "fast pitch specific" scoring explanation i have ever run across...