Several newbie and scoring questions

[jfm0830]

First of all just let me say how much I like iScore baseball. I have viewed all the training videos and I've started looking through the FAQs in this forum, but I still have lots of questions. Part of the problem is the videos are showing iScore on earlier versions of the program and in some cases on the iPhone as opposed to the iPad which is what I use. This forum has some useful tips as well. But often I don't know what features are supposed to exist, so I don't often know what to search for. For example I found the popover menus for feildling position in the team roster list totally by accident. This is obviously an iPad or tablet only feature, and I didn't see it in any of the materials that I read.

I am scoring a league where I don't have the players positions, batting and throwing information nor uniform number available. It is a big scramble at the beginning (and first few innings) of the game trying to get all this information in. I do use the quick lineup feature, but the discovery of that fielding position popover menu has sped things up immensely with far less clicks than the way I've been doing it previously. That is why I'd like to know if there is some way to learn the features of the iPad version of the program via some sort of manual. Once again the problem with this forum is it's very useful, but it's also very vast. In many cases I don't even know what to search for because I don't know if a particular feature even exists or what it might be called.

I also have two scoring questions that came up. I'm not sure of the proper way to score these plays in iScore baseball.

1) The bases were loaded with one out. The batter hit a line drive to the first baseman who caught the ball and then stepped on first for an unassisted double play. This wasn't something I could use a quick out for. I scored it as a line drive out to the first baseman, but then the program started asking me about what happened to the runners on second and third. I really didn't see a choice that applied to what happened there. I mean it's not like they held and they were not part of the play at all because the runner on first was the second out which ended the inning. I was able to designate that the runner on first was out on a double play, but I'm still not sure what I should've done with the runners on second and third.

2) What is the proper way to score this play? There is a runner on second and the batter hit a foul pop-up on the first base side. The first baseman was pulled way off his position and when he caught the ball, the runner on second tagged up and went to third. I used "advanced on the throw" for the description of what happened to the runner on second who moved to third. Somehow this didn't seem quite right.

Thanks in advance for any help. I am willing to do the legwork to learn this program, I am just overwhelmed trying to find it all.

Jim

[mprusak]

Welcome to the board. You'll find in short order its not as overwhelming as it seems.

Check out this FAQ, to see if it helps you some:
http://iscoresports.com/baseball/support.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


#1 - Out-Line Drive-(mark location)-select 1st baseman (3)-what happened to runners? third = safe/held up; second = safe/held up; 1st = out/double play.
Sounds like you did it right.

#2 - not critical, but proper way would be advanced by batter.

[FTMSupport]

All the documentation we have is available at http://iscoresports.com/baseball/training.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and in the "What's New" section of the app itself (tap the version number on the home screen --- there would have been a red "1" there the first time you loaded the app). We release versions more often than we update documentation - we assume users would prefer new features over us spending our limited resources documenting things only to have them outdated with the next update anyway.


1. You would use Held Up for runners on second and third.

2. This would typically be an "Advanced by Batter" situation (the batter's pop out advanced the runner).