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How to set up Pitch Count for Team Sites

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Pitch Count lets your coaches record each pitcher's pitches during baseball and softball games in the TeamSideline app. Once TeamSideline Support has set it up for your organization, you turn it on for each division: on the division's 1 Configuration > Stats page, click Turn On Stats if stats are off, then Turn On Pitch Count.

Applies to: Org admins · Organizations that TeamSideline Support has set up for Pitch Count (it isn't part of the Core, Enhanced, Elite or Enterprise plans) · Baseball and softball league divisions whose teams have Team Sites

Where: Schedules > Leagues & Divisions > (division) > 1 Configuration > Stats

Before you start

  • Ask TeamSideline Support (support@teamsideline.com) to set up Pitch Count for your organization. Until they do, the Turn On Pitch Count button doesn't appear.
  • The league's Sport Type must be Baseball or Softball.
  • Coaches record pitch counts on their team's Team Site in the TeamSideline app, so publish the teams' Team Sites and publish the division's game schedule to them on the program's 5 Team Sites page.

Turn on Pitch Count for a division

  1. Go to Schedules > Leagues & Divisions and click the division.
  2. Click 1 Configuration, then Stats.
  3. If the page shows Turn On Stats, click it. You'll see "You have turned on Stat tracking for this division."
  4. Click Turn On Pitch Count.

What you'll see: "You have turned on Pitch Count for this division." The button changes to Turn Off Pitch Count, and the division's stats list includes IP - Innings Pitched and PT - Pitches Thrown. Repeat for each division that should use Pitch Count.

What coaches see

  • In the TeamSideline app, the team's staff see a blue flag on each of the division's games. Tapping it opens Pitch Count.
  • Pitch counts are entered only in the TeamSideline app, the Team Site on the web doesn't offer it.
  • Only team staff, such as coaches and managers, can record pitch counts.
  • A game's pitch count can be added or changed until the game is scored or its pitch count is finalized. After that it's locked.

The coaches' steps are in How to enter Pitch Count on the TeamSideline App, under Related articles.

Who sees pitch counts

  • When a coach finalizes a game's pitch count, each pitcher's Innings Pitched and Pitches Thrown are saved as that game's stats and show on your website's stats pages.
  • To keep them off your public stats pages, go to the division's 1 Configuration > Stats page and click the eye icon (Toggle Visibility) next to Innings Pitched and Pitches Thrown. A red eye means the stat is hidden from the public, and a green eye means it's shown. Click it again to show the stat.
  • Pitch Count doesn't record the game's score. Coaches still report scores the usual way, for example with Auto Coach Scoring, or an admin enters them.
  • If you collect pitch counts through Auto Coach Scoring instead, as a custom field coaches fill in with the score, Show Custom Fields on the division's 1 Configuration > Scoring page decides whether they appear in the public schedule's game comments ("Show on schedule game comments for all."). See Setting up Pitch Count Reporting using Auto Coach Scoring, under Related articles.

Turn Pitch Count off

On the division's 1 Configuration > Stats page, click Turn Off Pitch Count. You'll see "You have turned off Pitch Count for this division." Clicking Turn Off Stats turns Pitch Count off too ("You have turned off Stat tracking for this division."). Pitching stats already saved aren't deleted.

If it doesn't work

  • There's no Turn On Pitch Count button. Stats are off (click Turn On Stats first), the league's Sport Type isn't Baseball or Softball, or TeamSideline Support hasn't set up Pitch Count for your organization.
  • There's no Turn On Stats button. The league is archived, and stats can't be turned on or off for an archived league.
  • Coaches don't see the blue flag. Check that Pitch Count is on for the game's division, that the game is on the team's Team Site (its schedule is published to the team and the division's schedule is visible), and that the coach is team staff on that Team Site and is using the TeamSideline app, not the website.
  • Practices have no blue flag. Pitch Count is for games only.

Good to know

  • Pitch Count is set per division. Turn it on in each baseball or softball division that should use it.
  • It works on Team Sites you publish from your program, because it follows the team's division. Teams that coaches create themselves on TeamSideline can't use it.

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