Scoring Tutorial Baseball and Softball - Advanced Scoring

Welcome to Advanced Scoring for Baseball and Softball! Whether you've used it before or just getting started, we're here to help you walk you through and answer any questions you may have! 

Learn how to enable Advanced Scoring for your team, score a game or just check out some FAQs regarding Advanced Scoring

Enable Advanced Scoring

Let's get your team set up with Advanced Scoring! Keep in mind, once Advanced Scoring is enabled for a team, it stays enabled for that team going forward. However, you can switch back to Basic Scoring at any time in team scoring settings.

1. Login to your sidelineHD Account
2. Select the Team Card
3. Select Settings in the top right corner
4. Select Scoring Settings
5. Select Scoring Module 
6. Select Advanced

Score a Game

Setup Scoring

1. Login to your sidelineHD account on the app
2. Click on the Team Card of the team that you are going to score for
3. On the Schedules tab of the team page, select the Game Card for the game you are scoring
   • If you have not created the game yet or set a lineup, you can do so now by creating a game 
   • Don't forget that you can also set your team's (or opponent's) lineup as well when clicking the Game Card
4. Select if you are the Home or Away team 
   • Home or away selection cannot be undone when using advanced scoring, so be sure to select the correct option.
5. Select Start Game when the game starts
6. Select the current hitter/pitcher
   • If you are the Home team, you will be prompted to select your starting Pitcher
   • If you are the Away team and set your lineup before the game, you can start scoring right away. 
     • If you did not set your lineup, you'll be asked to select the first batter from your roster.
7. Start scoring!

Start Scoring

You're ready to start scoring the action! Here's few things to keep in mind! 

Scoring the At Bat

Keep track of the count during the at bat using all of the options!

• B ~ Ball 
• ꓘ ~ Called Strike
• K ~ Swinging Strike
• F ~ Foul
• ... ~ More

Scoring a Ball in Play  

Once the ball is hit:

1. Select Ball in Play
2. Select the play result (groundout, single, error, etc)
3. Tap on the field view where the ball was hit
4. Confirm what type of hit it was (Ground ball, Fly ball, Line Drive)
5. Select Continue
6. You may be asked to select the player(s) involved in the play. Make sure to select all players involved.
   • Once complete, select Finish Play (scroll to the bottom of your roster)
7. Review and confirm what happened in the play
8. Select Finish Play
9. Continue on for each batter and inning until the game is over
10. To end the game, select the gear icon
11. Select End Game

FAQs