how would you lose 5 games with .550-.690 OBP? and a .340- 676 BA?
Where is John McEnroe?
Hitting Slump or just bad luck?
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Where is John McEnroe?
Those are beer league softball stats.
Seeing fans go crazy because one of their hitters hit a lazy fly out at 16u drives me crazy. Heard a parent just raving about how a girl (maybe his DD, I don't know) "crushed" a ball that went maybe 30-40 feet into the outfield. Center fielder was camped under it the whole time.
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09 birth year is 14u anyway. Disservice to play any games at 12u. League year started 1 August.
Game Changer is great. With access to all sort of metrics and stats. IF IT IS SCORED CORRECTLY!!!! As others have said, the well-intentioned Mom or the Stat padding dad, running GC will royally screw it up.
I've watch games with 3b having 5 throwing errors to 1b, where she never threw a catchable ball. Think 10' high and rising..... And all 5 errors were recorded E3. Or the sac bunt, with a 4 base throwing error magically scored HR. Or the grounder thru 2b legs, past RF, and relay throws dropped 2x being scored a HR.
And don't get anyone started on WP versus passed balls with GC ran by either Pitcher or catcher parent. WOW!
If your DD is putting balls in play and hitting the ball hard, the stats will sort themselves out, The liners will start to hit grass versus gloves, the flares will start dropping and all will be right in the world.
QAB(Quality At Bats) is a better stat to track than BA. But as mentioned previously, you have to have someone with a softball/baseball brain doing GC for accurate results and good luck with that. With my HS team, we never spoke of BA the day after each game, we only discussed who had QABs.
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the problem with QAB is it is very dependent on accurate GC entry. a hard hit ball on first pitch is weighed higher than a little flare that drops in on pitch #2.
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As others have mentioned, GC is only as good as the person doing the entries. On DD's TB team, there were two pretty experienced people working a paper scorebook and GC side-by-side. It was a good product overall, but they still occasionally got things wrong. If your DD is dead last on a "C" team with a .300 BA and .400 OBP, it's likely that fielding errors and perhaps even Fielder's Choices aren't part of the scoring method. These are all things you can keep track of yourself during the season. However, first ensure that you know how the numbers are calculated and what they mean.
My personal favorite is called OPS, which means On-base-Percentage + Slugging. It captures both how often a player reaches base plus how effectively they're hitting a ball (hard hit for a double vs a dink single).
For outs, it's important to keep track of what kind of out it was. If it was a hard hit ground ball or line drive that went right to someone, just keep swinging. If there are lots of high fly balls or weak grounders, some fixes may be necessary.
My personal favorite is called OPS, which means On-base-Percentage + Slugging. It captures both how often a player reaches base plus how effectively they're hitting a ball (hard hit for a double vs a dink single).
For outs, it's important to keep track of what kind of out it was. If it was a hard hit ground ball or line drive that went right to someone, just keep swinging. If there are lots of high fly balls or weak grounders, some fixes may be necessary.
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