Dugout Relief

Season stats, from the file you already have

Bring in each game’s stats, from a GameChanger file, our printed stats sheet or scorecard, or typed in, and the Stats tab answers the questions a coach plans around: is everyone getting fair field time, who can pitch today, how to set the batting order, and what’s going well for each player. Players shows one player’s season against their own earlier games, so you can go over it together.

Batting: who gets on, and how each trip ended

On base & power puts each player on one chart: further right gets on base more, higher hits for more extra bases. Lines mark the team’s averages, and every dot has a name. Play it, or drag the game slider under it, to see each player’s path through the season one game at a time. Sort by OPS in the Dugout’s batting order uses the same numbers.

Getting on base (OBP) against hitting for power (SLG) for a sample team: each player a named dot, the team's averages as lines, and players listed by quadrant
Getting on base vs. hitting for power, against the team's averages.

Plate results gives the team, then each player, one bar: extra-base hits, singles, walks, reached on error, sacrifices, fielder’s choices, outs, and strikeouts. Green marks the trips that count toward on-base percentage, darkest for extra-base hits; amber marks the outs. Sort it by batting order, by how often a player reached base, by contact, or by quality at bats. Contact shows who puts the ball in play and how often it falls for a hit, and plays back game by game the same way.

How every trip to the plate ended for a sample team: the team's bar with each result's share, then one bar per player, with trips and quality at bats
How every trip to the plate ended: the team, then each player.

Pitching: how far a day’s limit goes

Pitch load shows each pitcher’s share of the team’s pitches, then their daily limit divided by their season pitches per inning. This tells you about how many innings a full day covers, drawn against the length of a game. It’s an average; rest days still decide who can pitch on a given day, and the Schedule shows who can for each game.

Each sample pitcher's share of the team's pitches, then a bar per pitcher split into innings, against a six-inning game
Each pitcher's share of the pitches, and about how many innings their daily limit covers.
With softball rules: each sample pitcher's share of the team's innings, then a bar per pitcher of innings pitched, with their outings
Softball: each pitcher's share of the innings, and their innings each outing.

Strikeouts & walks puts each pitcher next to the staff’s line, with batters faced, hit batters, and wild pitches under each; walks are the striped bar.

Two dot charts put each pitcher against the staff’s averages and play back game by game. K% & BB% plots strikeouts and walks as shares of batters faced, with rays for strikeouts per walk, so a pitcher with no walks still has a place. Pitches & runners sets pitches a batter against walks plus hits an inning (WHIP). Pitches a batter needs pitch counts from a GameChanger file in softball, where the Dugout counts innings.

Fielding: who has played where

Field time shows each player’s innings a game at pitcher, catcher, infield, outfield, and on the bench, against the team average, with the same Behind tag as the Dugout lineup. Positions shows the field with how many players have played each spot and whose innings they were, so you can see who hasn’t tried second base yet. Tap a position for who played it. Each player’s own page shows their field too, a bigger dot where they’ve played more.

Over the season shows whether playing time is evening out or pulling apart. Each player is a line of innings a game against the team average, which is the flat line across the middle, and it plays back game by game. Players within half an inning of the average, the same line as Behind, stay faint; the ones further out are drawn strong and named. Under it, the gap between the player with the most field innings and the one with the fewest is a graph of its own, with a plain-words line above saying whether it is narrowing, widening or holding. It needs two games with saved lineups.

Innings played at each position for a sample team: a baseball field with a tile at each position giving how many players have played there and a bar of whose innings
Innings played at each position this season.

How the lineup checks use playing time

Side by side, with no best or worst

The charts use each player’s roster color and don’t rank anyone. What counts as a good season depends on age and league, so the dot charts compare each player with the team: the corner ahead of the team on both numbers is tinted green, and the corner behind on both is tinted yellow, so you can see who could use extra help. A player with only a few trips or innings is drawn hollow, since a few games can move their numbers a long way. Tap a name to open that player’s season.

Players shows one player’s season against their own earlier games, never against teammates, in the same three parts: a summary in plain words, what’s going well, a next step (and the same on the mound for a pitcher), and every trip to the plate. You can print it on one page for the player’s family.

One sample player's batting season on Stats, Players: a plain-language summary, what's going well, a next step, and their last games against their first
One player's season, compared only with their own games.

The team’s season, and every number

The Team view has three parts: Fielding, Batting, and Pitching, with a tab for each chart, so you see one at a time. Each starts with the team (field time; team totals and runs by game; staff totals), then puts everyone side by side. The last tab, All numbers, has the full table, with sortable columns. Tap a player on one chart and they stay picked out on the others.

Once a season has playoff or tournament games, a Games list beside the season picks all games, season games only, or playoffs and tournaments, and a player summary printed from it says which set it shows.

Runs scored and allowed for each game of a sample season, one pair of bars per game
Runs scored and allowed, each game.

Where the numbers come from

Keep score in GameChanger. After the game, export its stats as a CSV and import it for that game on the Schedule tab. Dugout Relief reads the batting, pitching, and fielding counts and works out averages and rates from them, the same way GameChanger does, so the numbers match. Each pitcher’s count goes into their rest days too. No GameChanger file? Print the game’s stats sheet or scorecard from the Dugout’s printer for your scorekeeper, then type the numbers in from its card on the Schedule, fill in its stats template (Import stats), or take a photo of the filled-in pages there. The photo is read on your device.

Four ways to bring a game’s stats in