What’s your HS team’s policy on making stats and video in your scorekeeping app visible? Do they allow anyone to see it or just the team? Our HS allows all video to be seen by anyone but stats are restricted by player to just the family members of that player, so you cannot see the team stats.
Also, what’s your opinion on restricting vs not?
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Our HS doesn't make team stats available, but the travel team does.
I wish the HS would.
Stats shouldn't be subjective, but they are... If parents want to keep stats they should, but they should also keep them to themselves... If not, in HS it will create consternation... lol.
All HS stats are visible to parents and players. They may even be public. Son's travel team is as well. Videos are public as well. But alot of times the bench players do game changer in HS so sometimes things aren't super accurate especially with fielding. I do like that they are public.
All of the HS teams in my area keep their stats on line. Last year's baseball website:
https://stats.stlhighschoolspo...tats/index.php?s=906
You can use the option at the top of the page to go look at each school's stats. I used to coach at Triad:
Stats are public, video is not. Though so many local HS teams post videos you can see our time most of the time anyways.
HS stats: Garbage in....Garbage out...
....many times score keepers are untrained "mom's" or other volunteers. Not to denigrate them, but it is just a fact. The only people who care about HS stats are the parents of players.
Videos are for the enjoyment of family and grandparents, and the A dads...
I kept the book and maintained the website. I received calls and e-mails the night of every game after the boxscore was posted. Then parents woukd complain to the coach. He got so tired of parents bitching to him he shut down public access to stats.
Most schools around here have both open to the public. I suppose some coaches believe there is strategic value in not allowing their opponents to see their stats or video, but realistically not many high school coaches or players have the time to do in-depth research on their opponents anyway. Everybody already knows who the studs are.
My son's old high school kept everything locked down. You could only see your own son's stats. The Coach talked about it in the parent meeting. He said it was to prevent other schools looking at spray charts, etc. It was really to prevent parents from having ammo to question his line up decisions, etc.
Granted, there are local aggregate sits that compile all the high school stats so you can find it if you're looking hard enough
HS Stats for son's school are loaded to MaxPrep and are open. Most schools in the area are on Maxprep and are open. A parent streams the games live, but the games are deleted shortly after they are over. Mostly because if there is music playing in the background youtube will give the account strikes.
Back in the good old days when we had a good local newspaper, they put box scores, game summaries in the paper after every game. And, they published the stats for the area teams about four times a year. Sometimes there were some "errors" that kind of looked deliberate; at that time, I thought it mattered.
Random people at work, in the neighborhood, etc. enjoyed reading about their friends' kids. Now, of course, all of that is gone, newspaper belongs to USAToday, and seem to have no interest (or ability to pay reporters) in what matters to local people.
