Play Ball Lineup - Youth Baseball and Softball Lineup Maker app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Play Ball Apps, LLC
First release : 17 May 2014
App size: 66.57 Mb
Create fair yet competitive lineups fast with the App that thinks like a coach.
PLAY BALL LINEUP is a revolutionary youth baseball and softball lineup-making App. With PLAY BALL LINEUP, the App actually creates the lineup based on the strategy provided by the coach; thereby saving the coach from the time-consuming responsibility of creating an equitable yet competitive lineup game after game after game. And, if you don’t agree with the lineup the App created, you can tweak it to get it just right.
PLAY BALL LINEUP has two strategy modes a coach can use to create a lineup: Instructional Play and Competitive Play. Each strategy mode contains easy to use settings and inputs designed to completely customize a fair yet competitive lineup for game day success. Whether you need to create a lineup where everyone is encouraged to play everywhere, or where youre playing to win and every player has a spot, PLAY BALL LINEUP puts your players and team in the best position to play safe, have fun and succeed on game day.
PLAY BALL LINEUP is also ideal for mens and womens baseball and softball leagues.
PLAY BALL LINEUP is a universal App that has been designed for iOS 8 for use on your iPhone and iPad.
FEATURES:
•Create new lineups from scratch or modify an existing lineup to save time.
•Add, save and delete lineups and teams.
•List up to 15 players per team.
•Create lineups from 3 to 7 innings.
•Create lineups with up to 12 positions.
•Apply various ‘Local Rules’ (i.e. All players should play at least 2 innings in infield).
•Apply Fielder Skill Level ratings to your players.
•Choose from two strategy modes: Instructional Play and Competitive Play
•Tell the app what players are playing in the game.
•Choose the number of innings you want each player to play and the positions you want each player to play.
•Specify the innings you want your pitchers to pitch and your catchers to catch.
•Ability to let the App choose the positions for you instead.
•Choose up to 5 key positions and the innings to dictate the strength of defense during the game.
•Ability to tweak the lineup or shuffle the lineup to make another one
•Ability to set a batting order.
•Final lineups converted to PDFs.
•Ability to email PDFs to yourself/others.
•Print out the lineup and batting order for the dugout.
Latest reviews of Play Ball Lineup - Youth Baseball and Softball Lineup Maker app for iPhone and iPad
Ive only created a few lineups but so far this app is very cool! This season I am coaching my kids tee-ball and kid pitch (9-10 year old) teams and I can already tell this app is going to reduce the amount of time I spend creating my lineups considerably without sacrificing quality. Its pretty cool that I can tell the app who I want playing where and when and the app takes that and creates the lineup. And, if I dont like what the app creates, I like that I can tweak the lineup if needed. Again, Ive only created a few lineups so far but all of the setting and inputs seem to be very intuitive and easy to use. I like that I can create a 3 inning lineup for my tee-ball team with no catcher and 2 pitchers and everyone playing everywhere but then I can dial up the strategy for my kid pitch lineup where the games are more competitive. If you coach youth baseball or softball at any level, this app is worth a look.
Definitely could be great. Better than a piece of paper, and I like the ability to customize for the various conditions of youth fastpitch softball (10 players, innings limits and letting me know when Ive left out a position or doubled up on coverage, etc.) However, it doesnt quite do the job as expected. For instance, I input player positions and marked "competitive" but then when it created the lineup, it put players in totally different positions than I had listed for them. So my lefty ends up at shortstop and the girl I specified only in right center gets positioned everywhere and anywhere - and I have to manually change all the positions in that inning to get them in better spots for their respective skills. Ill still use it, but for $5 it should do what is advertised...
Do not use. Constantly crashes when generating lineup. Complete waste of money.
It usually takes me an hour and a half to do a lineup each week. This is because I try to be fair and yet competitive at the same time. This will cut my time on planning the lineup to a fraction of the time. I hate trying to figure out where each player should play each inning. I love the weighted rules that you can apply based on skill level and being competitive or playing for fun based per inning. I have looked for an app like this for a long time. This is the perfect tool for my coaching toolbox.
Spent a good 45 mins speaking to the owner to was extremely open to suggestions. It needs a couple enhancements but I can genuinely say its an app I use weekly during the softball season. I do believe that in instructional play, the app should be able to track the players on how many times they have played a position and a rule should be set up specifically to account for the logic. Lets me honest, at the early stages its all Daddy ball and parents only watch there own children. This would help distribute the positions so no one person played a position more than another person through out the season. Keep the parents happy. Remind you this would only be for instructional play