Tracking defensive innings played

[Judd4507]

Is it possible to track the number of innings players play at each position?

[FTMSupport]

If you email yourself the Player Card for a player, you will see innings appeared at each position on the report.

If you view the Play by Play on the Admin Website for any game, you will see a chart of the positions played in each inning as well.

[Lestatvidda]

Although this is a great workaround, it would still be a great feature to have defensive innings played display on team fielding stats, especially for coaches who are concerned about balalncing fielding time for each player.

[mcastleman]

I would submit that that is not a workaround but how it was designed. You are asking for a very specific representation of not just innings (I.e. field time) but also field time by position. While analyzing defensive stats by position for an individual player is helpful...very few teams are generally concerned with adjusting lineups "by position" for equity sake past 10u or 11u baseball.

As a coach...the easiest thing to do is simply have a roster on a clipboard with players and inning columns...just add it up every game in a spread sheet. Easier than any other approach.

The coach that needs this can go through the steps to do the export. I'm not criticizing it but he is simply in the minority of types of users in my opinion and he still gets what he needs.

[OhioTex]

I do not have official usage stats, but based on feedback on this forum,.. I am not convinced youth ball that rotates players by position is a minority. sounds like a number of folks use score and have youth teams that do rotate players defensively .. and could benefit from the computer associating stats by position.

I believe the request for more precise tracking of players by position is on FTM list for future consideration, but vaguely recall them saying not likely high of the list.

It may be an opportunity for a third party to add that level of analysis .. innings (or more precisely outs) played by position, Errors by position played, etc.

In the now term, the grid at the end of the play by play can help youth coaches see historic playing time and rotations.

[mcastleman]

I do not have official usage stats, but based on feedback on this forum,.. I am not convinced youth ball that rotates players by position is a minority. sounds like a number of folks use score and have youth teams that do rotate players defensively .. and could benefit from the computer associating stats by position.

I believe the request for more precise tracking of players by position is on FTM list for future consideration, but vaguely recall them saying not likely high of the list.

It may be an opportunity for a third party to add that level of analysis .. innings (or more precisely outs) played by position, Errors by position played, etc.

In the now term, the grid at the end of the play by play can help youth coaches see historic playing time and rotations.

Been awhile since this post but I thought I'd respond...

This is a "Scorekeeping" application...my point was that the request was extraneous to scorekeeping AND extraneous to game stat analysis. Clearly there are teams that want to track "player equity" time (I coached LL for many years and it was essential...as in every development youth sport). It's just my view that there is a waaaaaaaayyyy easier manner than to do so.

Editorial Opinion: If you are in a level of baseball that requires innings count and equity outcome then it is highly likely this is a rec and instructional league...just keep score of the game...don't worry about stats or numbers.

[elcray]

I do not have official usage stats, but based on feedback on this forum,.. I am not convinced youth ball that rotates players by position is a minority. sounds like a number of folks use score and have youth teams that do rotate players defensively .. and could benefit from the computer associating stats by position.

I believe the request for more precise tracking of players by position is on FTM list for future consideration, but vaguely recall them saying not likely high of the list.

It may be an opportunity for a third party to add that level of analysis .. innings (or more precisely outs) played by position, Errors by position played, etc.

In the now term, the grid at the end of the play by play can help youth coaches see historic playing time and rotations.

Been awhile since this post but I thought I'd respond...

This is a "Scorekeeping" application...my point was that the request was extraneous to scorekeeping AND extraneous to game stat analysis. Clearly there are teams that want to track "player equity" time (I coached LL for many years and it was essential...as in every development youth sport). It's just my view that there is a waaaaaaaayyyy easier manner than to do so.

Editorial Opinion: If you are in a level of baseball that requires innings count and equity outcome then it is highly likely this is a rec and instructional league...just keep score of the game...don't worry about stats or numbers.

I understand what you are saying about issues keeping track for the sake of equality. However, I track the number of innings each player plays in a position so I can equate errors per innings. Seeing that one kid has 10 errors and another kid has 2 doesn't mean anything if you don't know the span of play the errors were associated with. Additionally, I break down the errors per each position for each player. Especially at this age, this is important for us because most of the kids play many different positions.

I developed a process of downloading all of the data to a cloud based SQL Server via the API. I then use a web front end to slice and dice the data the better suits our needs. This includes pitched location data for both the pitchers and hitters perspective. It also includes the per inning/per position data for each player that the OP mentioned. The API is a cludgy process but is usable.

[gonats]

Two years late, but in case anyone's wondering, go into Team Stats, click on Fielding, then just make sure that AP1=innings at pitcher, AP2=innings at catcher, AP3=innings played at 1B ... etc. etc, are all checked.

We just cut out all of the inbetween stat categories so we see exactly who played how many innings per position.