Great app - a few small thoughts
Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:31 pm
Hello, I just bought your app and used it to score a game today, and was overall thrilled with the experience. Thanks so much!
Since I see that you're so responsive to user suggestions here, I thought I'd chime in with just a couple of small thoughts I've had about small improvement possibilities.
1 - I love the way a batter's past at-bats show as a spray chart when he comes up later in the game, but: It seems to me that lines which indicate a ball hit into a fielder's choice, allowing the batter to reach, should be in red to show that an out was made, rather than in green, which makes it look like the batter has more hits than he does; this would seem more in keeping with the fact that a fielder's choice counts as an out in the batter's stats, which is correctly reflected in your app.
2 - Also about the past at-bats spray chart, but this one is more of a personal preference which I wonder if other people think is a good idea. Currently, each line has a number at the spot the ball went to that indicates which of the batter's at-bats it represents. Might it be more useful if that number was the number of the inning in which the play occurred instead? That would provide additional information about when in the game the batter has come up, and would still show the relative chronology of his hits. The only problem with this I could see would be in cases when the team bats around and a batter comes up twice in an inning, but that might be solved with an additional character: like 5a and 5b, or 5-1 and 5-2, to show a batter's two at-bats in the fifth inning.
3 - In the pitching stats, when a pitcher pitches a fractional number of innings, that currently shows up as .33 and .67 of an inning, which seems unwieldy to me. Most box scores I see notate that either with actual fractions - 1/3 and 2/3 - or with .1 and .2 to show thirds of an inning; I think either would be preferable.
4 - In my game, a runner stole second and then advanced to third on an errant throw by the catcher. I think I scored this correctly by first indicating a stolen second base and then marking an E2 to send the runner to third, but the error didn't show up in the game stats or in the line score. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if there's a bug relating to this.
Thanks very very much for making such a satisfying app, and for taking the time to read my comments!
Since I see that you're so responsive to user suggestions here, I thought I'd chime in with just a couple of small thoughts I've had about small improvement possibilities.
1 - I love the way a batter's past at-bats show as a spray chart when he comes up later in the game, but: It seems to me that lines which indicate a ball hit into a fielder's choice, allowing the batter to reach, should be in red to show that an out was made, rather than in green, which makes it look like the batter has more hits than he does; this would seem more in keeping with the fact that a fielder's choice counts as an out in the batter's stats, which is correctly reflected in your app.
2 - Also about the past at-bats spray chart, but this one is more of a personal preference which I wonder if other people think is a good idea. Currently, each line has a number at the spot the ball went to that indicates which of the batter's at-bats it represents. Might it be more useful if that number was the number of the inning in which the play occurred instead? That would provide additional information about when in the game the batter has come up, and would still show the relative chronology of his hits. The only problem with this I could see would be in cases when the team bats around and a batter comes up twice in an inning, but that might be solved with an additional character: like 5a and 5b, or 5-1 and 5-2, to show a batter's two at-bats in the fifth inning.
3 - In the pitching stats, when a pitcher pitches a fractional number of innings, that currently shows up as .33 and .67 of an inning, which seems unwieldy to me. Most box scores I see notate that either with actual fractions - 1/3 and 2/3 - or with .1 and .2 to show thirds of an inning; I think either would be preferable.
4 - In my game, a runner stole second and then advanced to third on an errant throw by the catcher. I think I scored this correctly by first indicating a stolen second base and then marking an E2 to send the runner to third, but the error didn't show up in the game stats or in the line score. I'm not sure if I did something wrong, or if there's a bug relating to this.
Thanks very very much for making such a satisfying app, and for taking the time to read my comments!
