emailing stats

[azstormmom]

it would be nice if we had the ability to email individual stats from the admin page or the team site (quicker to type the email address), or if it could have the individuals email address saved in the roster somehow and then a button inside the app to email the individual stats to their email address for a particular team, or something to make it easier when sending 12+ stat emails out. our coach does not allow the team stats to be public at this time so i have to go through the entire roster and email them one by one.

[FTMSupport]

If you are using an iPhone or iPad, the email option from the player card allows you to select email addresses from your Address Book... this should eliminating the typing of email addresses over and over.

[azstormmom]

unfortunately I'm using the android version...any other suggestions?

[FTMSupport]

We will be adding address book emailing to the Android version in a future release as well.

[OhioTex]

Side comment..

I find it interesting how many coaches resist making factual information available to the players and parents.

The administrative burden to you would be much less if everyone on team had password for team site.

[brian_oshea]

I think I agree with not releasing statsvto all of the parents. There is quite often enough bickering among parents about whose child is the best, that you do not havevto give them additional amunition. Also if a parent becomes disenchanted with the team and decides to go to another team, they could give to team web site key to the other coach and he (she) would have this info available to use against the original team.

[Danger]

In my experience with youth leagues, most coaches don't like releasing all stats to everyone because you start hearing all the "Caitlyn is batting .350 and Amber is only hitting .288. Why is my daughter hitting 8th in the lineup while Amber is hitting 2nd?" Coaches don't like having their every move second-guessed and parents often don't understand the subtleties involved. Maybe Caitlyn is a slug on the bases. Maybe Amber makes contact every time while Caitlyn strikes out a lot. Parents tend to become a bit irrational about their kids.

We have two pitchers with almost identical ERAs and WHIP, but one of them pitches exclusively against the weaker teams while the other one pitches exclusively against the tougher opponents. A parent wouldn't necessarily understand that her daughter's stats wouldn't be nearly as good if she faced the same opponents as the other girl. Even without the stats, you still hear conversations like "Heather only gave up 2 runs in her game and Destiny gave up 3 runs." They leave out the part where Heather pitched against a 10U team that was making their first appearance in 12U while Destiny pitched against a very tough 12U team which had won their last three tournaments. By not providing parents with everyone's stats, you at least limit that a little.

[brian_oshea]

Agree 110%.

[OhioTex]

I seem to be in the minority on this . but I have taken an approach i use in business to the field, explaining the what and the why of decisions, actions and results. having more not less open books, more rather than less fact based discussions, more rather than less constructive discussion and debate, more rather than less looks at counter views. more rather than less respect among all parties. ...... not for everyone i agree, takes conviction and often lots of time to have your decisions critiqued. But as the parents spend many many more hours with the kids in youth ball, the influence and change in behavior i get in the players on and off the field by having the parents on board and understanding the what and the why of my approach has been very successful for me. I make no bones about it, I recruit parents and kids on my teams. and it is an imperfect process. We may not win all the games, but we compete and win more than we loose and have quality time together. the good parents have access to the information and do question and help grow their understanding, their kids tend to respond and improve and measurement is a key tool in that.

my three cents.

[PetroGuy]

Although we do not currently embrace the idea of open stats, I have done this in the past and I tend to agree with OhioTex. There will always be questions, but I have found that if the stats are open, then the complaining stops after awhile. There will always be those who don't understand the stats and question things, but that tends to drop off with time. As yet another side note to this thread, I have the same issue with scorekeeping even with closed stats. People can see the scorecast and many even watch it at the field just to see how I score a play. I used to get quite a few questions/complaints about hits versus errors, etc.... Over time, these have dropped off considerably as people have learned that I know the scoring rules and that I apply them as consistently as I can.