If you knew your personal statistics were skewed by a coach to make a star players look better, how would you react? (ex.. player was given loss which wasn't his, and had two extra earned runs given to him)
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Originally Posted by southpawheat:
If you knew your personal statistics were skewed by a coach to make a star players look better, how would you react? (ex.. player was given loss which wasn't his, and had two extra earned runs given to him)
It depends. If it could be considered racial I would involve Al Sharpton.
Otherwise I would get the local city council and mayor to vote in a "Don't be hatin" day in April. 
I believe this would fall under "choose your battles wisely." I would consider this battle unwise.
I see it every time they update the stats for sons team. Some guys get the hit when it was an error, most guys don't. One kid has been given 5 extra hits this year. It's not worth the time to worry about it. My son just laughs it off. The kids know who is hitting\pitching and who isn't.
You may be operating under an assumption that a pro scout or college recruiter cares about the stats of a player......neither care at all. I completely understand the frustration, but I agree, probably not a battle worth fighting unless you have a personal relationship with the coach that would allow it.
It may even be an honest mistake. At my son's high school, it is a dad keeping the stats. I know he tries his best and even asks some of the other dads who may be sitting near him on a "judgement" call (hit or error). If he asks, and my son is not involved in the play, I will give my opinion. But I will admit, I have no knowledge of how to keep stats other then years of watching my son play. I assume the dad keeping the stats has a little more knowledge, but its not like this is his full time job.
Originally Posted by 9and7dad:
You may be operating under an assumption that a pro scout or college recruiter cares about the stats of a player......neither care at all. I completely understand the frustration, but I agree, probably not a battle worth fighting unless you have a personal relationship with the coach that would allow it.
Here's your answer. Scholastic stats are virtually meaningless when it comes to assessment by recruiters and scouts. They'd be shocked if they weren't tainted.
I am not sure that most people even know how to keep score, there are so many misunderstood things. I would submit that most people don't know that the most pages for anything in the OBR are the rules for keeping score.
South of college the stats get somewhat sketchy because the consistency of the scorekeeping is so varied. In some places they are very solid and in others the scorekeeper wouldn't know what you were talking about if you said "ordinary effort" to them. Or maybe they think a 55' curve that clangs off the backstop is a passed ball because - "the catcher should have easily blocked it". I know a number of pitchers parents that have made that statement ...
Who cares?
I wouldn't worry too much. Back in my day, a kid went up to the stats guy during a football game. Looked at the sheet and told him that he didn't give him credit for several tackles. The stats guy put a couple of check marks to credit the "missed" tackles. As soon as the kid walked away, the stats guy erased everything. 
Just this past week I had a coach tell me one of the players thought he hadn’t been given credit for enough SBs. I love those kinds of things because I’m pretty sure I’m gonna get the opportunity to help stamp out ignorance.
I found the boy in the dugout and asked him if he’d said that, and he said yes. I told him I’m always glad to check on such things, but I need to know where he thinks the problem is, so I asked for a list of places he thought he hadn’t been given credit for a SB. Of course like most people he couldn’t point to a specific instance and admitted he only THOUGHT he hadn’t been given credit when he should have. I love when that happens because it gives me the opportunity to teach.
The next game I had every scoresheet with me, and I grabbed the boy up for a lesson. Being electronic scoresheets, it was pretty simple to go through each at bat and see every base that he’d reached. After about 2 minutes we’d found out what the problem was, and then came the teaching moment. He didn’t understand that moving up on a wild pitch wasn’t an SB, and that if a double steal was attempted and one runner got caught, the other didn’t get a SB if he made it to the next base safely.
Most of the time that’s the kind of ignorance that causes misunderstandings, and the only way to stop it is to eliminate the ignorance. That takes time, but that’s what it takes.
Originally Posted by ironhorse:
Who cares?
Dunno - it is possible that no one cares....
Naaahhh, that can't be right ...it just can't be. Baseball people just love the numbers.