Well, it only too one game this season for me to get into it about scoring something. 
We were playing our 1st game at a local JUCO field, and was sitting in the pressbox, along with several of the JUCO players who’d been assigned to announce and run the scoreboard. There was also one of their assistant coaches and a local sports reporter. There were two plays I thought were noteworthy enough to comment on here.
This is the OBR definition of ORDINARY EFFORT:
ORDINARY EFFORT is the effort that a fielder of average skill at a position in that league or classification of leagues should exhibit on a play, with due consideration given to the condition of the field and weather conditions.
Rule 2.00 (Ordinary Effort) Comment: This standard, called for several times in the OfficialScoring Rules (e.g., Rules 10.05(a)(3), 10.05(a)(4), 10.05(a)(6), 10.05(b)(3) (Base Hits); 10.08(b) (Sacrifices); 10.12(a)(1) Comment, 10.12(d)(2) (Errors); and 10.13(a), 10.13(b) (Wild Pitches and Passed Balls)) and in the Official Baseball Rules (e.g., Rule 2.00 (Infield Fly)), is an objective standard in regard to any particular fielder. In other words, even if a fielder makes his best effort, if that effort falls short of what an average fielder at that position in that league would have made in a situation, the official scorer should charge that fielder with an error.
Here’s what happened on the 1st play. John led off our 4th with a grounder deep up the middle. Their shortstop had to make a great play on a semi-hard grounder, going behind the bag, with one foot on the OF grass to knock down the ball. On top of that, it would take a stupendous throw to get him because John was one of the fastest kids on our team. But he couldn’t get the handle on the ball after he’d knocked it down, and it became a topic of discussion in the press box.
The coach in the pressbox said it should be an error because if the fielder would have made the play cleanly he would have thrown John out because he had one of the best arms in the area. Well, coulda, woulda, shoulda isn’t something found in the rules, but more importantly, realizing the shortstop’s arm was far above average should have told him right away there’s no way that play should be scored an error because it wouldn’t have been an ORDINARY EFFIORT. And there you have it, John gets a hit!
Later in the game, this play took place. Staff hit a ball high and deep to center, ab across a stiff and swirling wind 10-20mph blowing out to right. Their center fielder went back and was circling like a vulture trying to get a good bead on the ball, but when it finally came down he’d misjudged it and it dropped safely to the ground, allowing a run to score and Staff to easily reach 3rd. Looking at the definition of “Ordinary Effort” and giving due consideration to the weather conditions, I scored it a triple. I don’t do that very often, but it was easy to see how much the wind was affecting balls hit into the air, especially ones hit very high like that one was.
The coach in the pressbox commented on how a good center fielder would have made that play, and how it was scorers like me that caused so many inflated BA’s for HS players. The reporter picked up on that and asked me how long I’d been scoring for this team and I told him this was my 8th year. Then he asked how many or our hitters in that time hit over .500, and I told him none. Then he asked how many had hit over .450 and again it was zero. Finally he asked me to guess how many had been over .400, and I told him I didn’t have to guess because I knew, and it was 2. He looked at the coach and told him he didn’t quite see how I was the cause of overinflated HS batting averages, when almost ever HS around has at least one .400 hitter every season, with many teams having more than that.
