Update -  Stat Manager 2.0 has been released and is available for download! 

Game Lineups are another new feature for Baseball Stat Manager 2.0. Creating your team's lineup before heading to the game saves valuable time and allows you to pre-select your substitutions for the game using the statistics and data from previous games. Below is a preview of how to fill out Game Lineups and save, print or email them. Version 2.0 of Stat Manager will be released in February, 2009 and will be a free upgrade to all current users of Baseball Stat Manager 1.x

Creating the Lineup

Creating a lineup for your team is simple. A new icon for Game Lineups has been added to the menu and toolbar of Stat Manager for easy access. Once the Game Lineup screen is opened, a particular game can be selected from the list of games you have entered. The Game Lineup screen allows you to create a batting order and fielding positions for your team for each inning of the game. After choosing the inning to work with, creating the lineup is as simple as dragging the player's name from the “Bench” area and dropping them into the correct batting order or fielding position. To substitute one player for another, drag the player's name from the bench over to the position they will be playing, and the substitution will be made for that inning.

Viewing and Printing the Lineup

Once a lineup card is entered, it can be viewed, exported or printed using Stat Manager's Reporting capabilities. A new Game Lineup report is available for viewing. Just pick the game, and view, export or print the report. Multiple copies can be printed to take to the game – one for the umpire, one for the opposing team and one for your dugout.

Update -  Stat Manager 2.0 has been released and is available for download! 

The ability to create, view and print scatter charts is one of the new features that will be available in version 2.0 of Baseball Stat Manager. Below is a preview of how to use the new Scatter Chart feature and how they can provide an valuable addition to batting stats for your baseball team. Version 2.0 of Stat Manager will be released in February, 2009 and will be a free upgrade to all current users of Baseball Stat Manager 1.x.

Entering Scatter Chart Data

The first step of using the scatter charts is entering the location of each hit for every player on your team. The best time to do this is while your entering the other statistics for your team. A new “Hit Placement” tab has been added to the Game Stats screen of Stat Manager. From this tab, you can enter the location of each hit a player has as you enter the player's other stats. Adding a new hit is easy – just choose whether the hit is a ground ball or fly ball and click the 'Add Hit' button. Then, choose the location of the hit on the field. After you choose a location, a colored circle is added to the field – red for ground balls and blue for fly balls. Simply repeat this procedure for each hit the player had for the game. The location of each hit is then automatically saved for you.

Viewing Scatter Charts

To view the scatter charts for your team, open the Scatter Chart View screen. This screen can be accessed by the Teams>Scatter Chart item on the menu or clicking the Scatter Charts button on the menu bar. The Scatter Chart View screen allows you to view and filter the scatter charts for your team. The scatter charts can be filtered by player, game, opponent, season, location or date.

The Scatter Charts report can also be used to view the scatter charts for your team. The report has a filter similar to the Scatter Chart View screen that allows you to filter down the information you want to look at. Once the report is created, this report can then be printed or exported to a PDF or Excel file which allows you to email the report to your team.

Using Scatter Charts

Scatter Charts are one more valuable tool to analyze the performance of the players on your team. They allow you to view trends in how hitters are putting the ball in play. As an example, lets look at the following scatter chart for a right-handed batter over several games:

Just looking at the hitting stats for the player may show that he is hitting well for average and power. However, the scatter chart allows you to dig deeper into the analysis and realize that the batter may be struggling a bit. The scatter chart shows that the batter is hitting with good power to left and center field. However, there are very few hits to the right side and most contacts to the right side are weak ground balls. This may indicate that the batter is not hitting outside pitches or curve balls off the plate very well. Instead of trying to take the outside pitch the other way, he is taking a normal swing and hitting the ball weakly off the end of the bat. Although the batter is generally successful at the plate, working with him to adjust his approach on outside pitches could help him improve his batting average.

Let's look at another situation: its in the late innings of a close game and you've got a runner on first and that you really want to move as far as you can. You have an opportunity to put in a pinch hitter and you have two good hitters on the bench. One of the players on the bench hits consistently with decent power, but seem to always pull the ball to left field. The second player on the bench hits a lot of line drives and has a knack for finding the gaps. Analyzing scatter charts before the game would reveal this information – although the first hitter has a potential of hitting a home-run, he also has the possibility that he may hit a pop-up to left, leaving the runner at first base. The second player will give a good potential of hitting the ball into the gap and move the runner on first to third and possibly home.

Update -  Stat Manager 2.0 has been released and is available for download! 

We are proud to announce the preview of Baseball Stat Manager version 2.0. This latest version of our popular team and stat management software for baseball and softball coaches has several exciting new features. Version 2.0 is scheduled to be released in February 2009 and will be a free upgrade for all users of Baseball Stat Manager 1.x. Below is a list of some of the new features in version 2.0:

Scatter Charts

You will soon be able to track the hit placement tendencies of your players using scatter charts. The charts will show the location of each hit or out made by each batter on your team. This information will help show the hitting tendency of a particular batter. For example, if a batter if consistently pulling the ball to one portion of the field, an adjustment in stance or approach in the batter's box may be warranted. The hit placement information can be entered for each player while entering their stats, making it an easy addition to the current process of entering stats for a game. This information can then be viewed in the Scatter Chart screen. Or, the scatter chart can be exported and emailed or printed using the Reporting feature.

Game Lineups

Baseball Stat Manager version 2.0 will also allow coaches to fill out inning-by-inning game lineups. This allows coaches to determine their lineup before game time. The lineup will contain both batting order and fielding positions. Coaches will have the ability to move a player's fielding position between innings. Each player not in the lineup is listed separately to make it easy to view who can by substituted in and substitutions can be made for any inning. The information used in the Game Lineup screen can then be printed or emailed using several different reports. Lineup cards can be created to give to the opposing teams or umpires at game time. An inning-by-inning report can also be created to assist in what substitutions to make during the game

New Statistics

Nine new stats are also being added to version 2.0 of Baseball Stat Manager. These new stats will assist in deeper team and player analysis. The new stats include the following:

G – Game Played – the number of games a player has participated in.

GIDP – Ground into Double Play – the number of double plays a batter has grounded into.

OPS – On-base plus slugging – The sum of the on-base percentage and slugging percentage for a batter.

BS – Blown Save – The number of times a pitcher has blown a save by giving up a lead in a save situation.

G/F – Ground ball/Fly ball ratio – The ratio of ground balls to fly balls that a pitcher allows.

HLD – Hold – The number of time a pitcher gets an out in a save situation without giving up the lead, but is not the last pitcher of the game and does not get the save.

WHIP – Walks and hits per inning pitched – The average number of walks and hits that a pitcher gives up per inning pitched.

BK – Balks – The number of times a pitcher commits a balk.

RF – Range Factor – A fielding statistic used to determine the range that a specific fielder has.

These new statistics will be available on all stats screen and reports.

Reporting Enhancements

The reporting feature has been expanded with new options and several new reports. New for version 2.0, the stats to display on hitting, pitching and fielding reports are now selectable. By default, all stats will be shown on a report, but if desired, certain stats can be omitted from a report.

The following new reports will also be available for version 2.0:

Team Leaders – Report that lists the team leaders for a specific statistic.

Player Stat Sheet – A quick-view report that contains all of a player's hitting, fielding and pitching stats. This is a good report to print and hand out to players.

Scatter Chart – Report showing the scatter chart for a specific player or the whole team.

Game Lineup Reports – Several different reports showing the details of the team's lineup for specific game.