I’m hoping someone who uses one of the pieces of software to score games and generate stats can help me here. Since pickoffs aren’t something required to be tracked by the rules, sometimes they can be very difficult to deal with.
Let’s say there’s a runner on 1st, the pitcher throws over, and the runner dives back but is tagged out. That’s generally counted as a pickoff for the pitcher.
Now let’s change things a wee bit. This time there’s a runner on 1st, the pitcher throws over, and the runner takes off for 2nd, and is tagged out.
That’s generally counted as a pickoff for the pitcher, and required to be a caught stealing for the runner.
Let’s do another change. This time there’s a runner on 1st, the pitcher throws over, and the runner takes off for 2nd, and eventually makes it safely.
Unless there’s an error, its required to be a stolen base for the runner. That part’s easy.
But, if you track pickoffs, or as in my case, also pickoff throws, you’ve got to do a little thinking. It could easily be a pickoff, because its easy to see that the runner got picked, and a pick is something that generally applies only to pitchers or catchers. Its very much like tracking SBAs and SBs. They’re things that apply to base runners, but they’re also applied against the defense as well.
So my question is, what does the software you use require you to do in order to get all those things scored correctly. Do you have to click on something, drag something, touch something, or do something else that let’s the software know that something’s taken place.
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