Enhancement Requests

[FDT92]

For iPad version

Player Manager -

Option to sort by/display by First Name Last Name or Last Name, First Name.
A place for contact information, or maybe just a Notes field.

Scorecard -

It's hard to tell the difference between the red shading/yellow shading on the swinging strikes and foul balls and useless if printing in black and white. Can we get either a "C" for called strike or "S" for swing strike (one or the other, and still use the pitch number for the one without the literal) and also "F" for foul?

so the pitch boxes could look like

_ 1 C
2 3 4

or

_ F 4
1 2 5


Display number of fielders -

Don't display more fielders than are on listed in the lineup per team. Some times one team will have 10 girls and the other team will only have 9. (A bonus would be if you could also make this work for only 7 or 8 fielders. so only display the positions that players have been put in from the lineup. When we only play with 8, the 2 outfielders are LF and RF).

Starting Lineups -

A next button to take you to the next player. helpful when assigning positions.


Alternate splash screen -

Option to choose between baseball/softball splash screen (including yellow ball). My daughter is making me request this one.

Could be tied into terms as well. So if you select softball, instead of "Balk" it would show "Illegal Pitch" and instead of "Hesitation" it would say "Look Back Rule".

Bunts -

Default to "Soft" "Grounder" on hit location screen.

iPad pitch location -

Option to hide. We never use this.


Thank you for your consideration. Keep up the great work!!!

[FTMSupport]

Thank you for the suggestions. Many of these things are already in our queue, but a few quick responses.

For pitches, if we showed letters for the pitches on the scorecard, then you lose the order of the pitches. We feel the order is an important piece of information when reconstructing the at bat, and the current color+pitch # allows you to see that.

For fielders - you do not have to put a person in every fielding position. iScore will show a ? for fielders that are not assigned. When you have < 9, we would imagine you will be shifting the outfielders around based on the batter, so showing the positions allows you to still do that.

Next button on starting lineup - nice request, have not had this one before and can save a couple clicks

Splash screen - Apple only allows one splash screen - this is their policy. To have a separate softball splash screen would require a separate app, and we would not want people to have to pay twice for softball + baseball when we can handle both with a single app.

Hide pitch locations --- we have actually put in "skins" for the release awaiting approval, and in the future, we would expect that people will be creating all kinds of variations on the display. We are not allowing users to create their own skins wth this release (we just added the Light skin for bright days), but we will be exposing that in the future.

[CSThunderCoach]

I have to agree with FDT92 on the color choices for the scorebook. They should be more contrasting with each other. Until about a week ago I didn't know they were different colors and I was about to ask for a change to indicate swinging and fouls, then my wife told me they were different. I usually print out the scorebook in B&W and there is no difference in the shading (at least that I can tell - but I'm getting old so that may not mean much ) Maybe a green/blue for one or the other.
Add another vote for the soft grounder (as the default) on a bunt as well.

[FTMSupport]

Any color based shading will not show differently when printed in black and white. The difference between a foul and a swinging strike really is not all that crucial when seen in the box (i.e. prior to 2 strikes). End result is still a strike, and you know the difference between a called strike and swinging strike even in black and white (which is the important thing). For fouls after 2 strikes, it is clear they are fouls and not just swinging strikes (in which case the batter is out).

We will be changing the default for bunt to soft grounder soon.

[CSThunderCoach]

Statistically, a foul ball is a strike - from a coaching perspective - it is contact with the ball - each contact is potentially a hit. If I know a girl is getting a bat on every fastball that I call (foul or fair) but has not been able to touch a curve-ball all season that is a big advantage to have each time we face that team. As is pitcher vs. batter stats (hint, hint )
My only comment (since I apparently have bad eyes) is shade the scorebook in green/blue for fouls. It is easier to tell when you have a swinging/foul next to each other, but if you only have one or the other for an at bat it is difficult to tell if it was swinging or a foul.
I won't stop using the app if the color doesn't change, but I won't have to have my wife translate colors for me any more if they were.

[FTMSupport]

We will add to the list to make the colors more distinct... will probably not be blue because we actually do have some consistency to the scorecard (red is out-related, blue is batter/runner advancing in some way), but we will see if we can come up with something more distinct.

[PetroGuy]

Not trying to be combative, but FDT92's strike scheme actually works quite well when reconstructing an at-bat. I have used other scorekeeping software in the past and this scheme is prevalent. In fact, I am entering my old games into iScore and I have no problem getting the exact sequence of pitches from an old box score. I have used this in paper score books as well. Just like the use of 'x' for foul balls after 2 strikes, you can still tell when the fouls occurred. I have yet to see an at bat where I can't tell when a pitch happened in sequence. The advantage is that it works for color or b&w prints.

[danmcc]

I currently like the format as it is since I choose to print in color, but an alternative to accommodate BW printing would be to have a standard number for called strikes and a bold number for swinging strikes. Additionally if the first pitch is a foul, in the proposed alternative format, would the statistical part of the program pick up the "F" as opposed to the number to count first pitch strikes?

[FTMSupport]

Fouls are counted as strikes in the first pitch strike counts.

We will look into adding the letters for the strikes for a future release.

Thank you.

[danmcc]

Sorry I wasn't clear. I understand fouls are first pitch strikes, my question was where is the data comes from. If the stats generate from the initial touch of foul then the letters are no problem but if the stats are fed from the boxes in the score card then the differences of a letter vs a number are significant.