How to use Slug Stats

Short guides for the things people get stuck on. Every one of them gives the steps for the website and for the phone app separately, because the two are not laid out the same way.

Getting started

Create an account and set your nameSign up, then make sure your own name is on the account — teammates see the name, and an account that was never given one shows up as Player.
Record your first at-batSave a plate appearance into the game it belongs to — the part people get wrong — and then the outcome, where the ball went and the RBIs.
Record where the ball wentTap the field while you record an at-bat — one tap, genuinely optional, and the only thing every spray chart and zone breakdown is drawn from.

Recording a game

Turn on extra at-bat outcomesSix outcomes — the dropped third strike among them — ship switched off. Where the switch is on each app, and what turning one on does and does not change.
The three ways to record a game, and which to pickAt-bat by at-bat, a whole game's totals off a paper sheet, or play by play as it happens — what each one gives you, and which ones you can still switch to later.
Enter a whole game from a box scoreType each player's totals for one game in a single pass — AB, H, 2B, 3B, HR, BB, K, FC, ROE, R, RBI and SB — and every line becomes individual at-bats.
Score a game live, play by playTrack innings, outs, baserunners and the line score as the game happens, instead of entering at-bats one at a time afterwards.
Fix or remove an at-batCorrect an at-bat you recorded wrong, delete one outright, or clear a game back to empty — and what changes once a game has been scored play by play.
Finish a game and enter the final scoreMark a game final when it is over — the same step asks for the score when the game hasn't got one — and end a game you scored live from its play log instead.

Teams

Start a teamCreate the team, keep hold of its invite code, and get your teammates on it — the one setup step that makes games and stats shared rather than yours alone.
Join a team with an invite codeType the eight-character code your captain sent you, or tap their invite link on a phone and let the app do the joining.
Take somebody off the team's rosterRemoving a member only takes away their access — their at-bats stay in the team's totals as a greyed Former row, and the invite code puts them back.
Rename a team or change its logoAny member can fix a team's name or put its crest on it — the new name shows for everybody at once, and a picture too big for the cap is shrunk to fit for you.
Leave a team, or delete oneLeaving hands back your access and keeps every at-bat you recorded; deleting removes the team for everybody and still keeps the games, the at-bats and the season.
Add a teammate who isn't on the appPut a roster-only name on the team and keep score for somebody who is never going to install anything — their line counts for the team, and for no real player.
Record an at-bat for a teammateOne person can keep the whole team's book: both apps ask who batted before the recorder opens, and the at-bat counts for whoever you pick rather than for you.
Claim the stats a teammate tracked for youJoin a team where somebody has been keeping your book and the app asks which roster name is you — claiming it moves those at-bats onto your account and changes no team total.
Keep stats for your childA parent keeping their kid's book uses the roster-only player the app already has — not a second account, and never their own batting line.

Batting orders

Set your team's batting orderSave a default batting order once and every new game for that team opens on it, so you are not re-arranging the lineup before each first pitch.
Set the batting order for one gameChange who bats where for a single game without touching the team's default, and give live scoring the order it needs before the first pitch.

Seasons

Personal seasons and team seasonsA season you made is yours alone; a season on a team is shared by every member. Which games can file under which, where each kind is managed, and who can change it.
Tidy up duplicate or empty seasonsThe same league listed twice, a season with nothing in it, or a row reading Unknown Season — what each one actually is, and the one-screen fix for each.

Stats

Where your stats live, and what each screen answersSix screens show numbers and each answers a different question — how you are going right now, a whole slice of your career, one game, one season, or the team's.
How a stat is worked outEvery number on your stats page is arithmetic over the at-bats you recorded — here is which at-bats go into each one, and what deliberately stays out.
Filter your stats by season, team, opponent or fieldEight dimensions narrow every number, chart and table on your stats page at once — where the control is on each app, and what each filter actually selects.
Roster status: what Auto, Regular and Sub meanWhy a teammate can vanish from the team's season table, the three-way control that decides it, and why none of it touches anybody's own stats.
Read your spray chartWhat the dots, their colours and the four zones are telling you — and why a zone's average runs so far above the one on the rest of your stats.

Your account

Set or change your passwordWhere the password screen is on each app, what the minimum is, and why an account that signed up with Google or Apple has no password at all until you set one.
Which way you sign in, and getting into the websiteA Google or Apple signup signs in on the website the same way it does on the phone — and has no password until one is added, which is what makes the email form refuse it.
Use the app in SpanishSwitch the app between English and Spanish from one row on your profile — it applies immediately, and the choice is stored on your account rather than on the device.
Delete your accountWhat deleting actually removes, what stays behind for the rest of your team, and the one case that catches scorekeepers — the games you created go with you.
Use the app with no signalAt-bats you record with no bars are saved on the phone and sent later — nothing is lost. Here is what waits, where to check it, and what your teammates see meanwhile.

Can't find it?

The support page answers the common account questions, and the stats glossary explains what each number on your line actually means. If neither has it, send feedback from the app and we'll answer.