Add a teammate who isn't on the app

Put 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.

Every rec team has two or three people who are not going to install an app, and a roster that stops at the ones who did is a team table with holes in it. A roster-only player is the answer: a name on the team's roster that somebody else keeps score for. There is no account behind it, nothing to sign into and nothing for that person to install — the app holds a name, a jersey number and a position, and whoever is keeping the book records their at-bats like anybody else's.

A roster-only name belongs to one team and lives nowhere else. It is offered on that team's games and no others, it is not a contact and it is not shared between your teams, and it never turns up on a game you recorded on your own. Any member can add one — this is not reserved for whoever created the team.

On your phone

  1. Open the Teams tab, open the team, and go to its Members segment.
  2. Tap Add roster player, under the list of roster-only names. On a team with none yet, the "Score for the whole team" card carries the same button.
  3. The screen that opens is Add Roster Player. Type the name into Name — Jersey # and Position are optional.
  4. Tap Save, at the top right. The name joins the Roster only list underneath the members who are on the app.

On the web

  1. Open the team and go to its Members tab — the team page opens on Stats, so this is a click you have to make.
  2. Click Add roster player. On a wide window it is at the right-hand end of the Roster heading row; on a narrow one it is the button under the Roster only list, and on a team that has none yet it is on the "Score for the whole team" card instead.
  3. Type what the team calls them into Name. Jersey # and Position are both optional, and the jersey is what the roster row and the batter picker show instead of an initial.
  4. Click Add. On a wide window the name joins the roster table, tagged Roster. On a narrow one it appears under Roster only, with "Not on the app yet — invite them to claim their stats" beside the heading.

Their at-bats are kept apart from everybody's personal stats, deliberately and for good. They count for the team — the season table, the team totals, the box score, the team spray chart — and they count on that name's own player page. They never count toward any real player's personal stats: not yours for having typed them in, not a teammate's, not anybody's. Your own batting line is only ever your own plate appearances, however much of the book you keep.

Everywhere else, the name behaves like a player. It is the Roster only group in the picker that asks who batted, it is on the bench in both batting-order editors, it is a row in the box-score grid and a line in the team's season table, and its hits are dots on the team's spray chart.

On your phone

  1. Open the Teams tab, open the team's Members segment, and tap the name under Roster only to open their page.
  2. Tap the pencil in the top right. That is how a roster-only name is renamed from the phone — tapping the row itself opens their stats, not the form.
  3. The screen is Edit Player, with the same three fields. Change what you need and tap Save.
  4. Remove player, at the foot of that screen, takes them off the roster. If they have at-bats, the alert counts them and offers to invite the player to claim them instead, because Remove and delete stats takes those at-bats out of the team's stats and there is no undo.

On the web

  1. Open the team's Members tab and find the name — under Roster only on a narrow window, in the roster table on a wide one.
  2. Click the ⋯ button at the end of their row.
  3. Edit reopens the same three fields, so a name spelled wrong on the first night is a ten-second fix and every game they have played keeps their corrected name.
  4. Remove, in the same menu, opens a box first. If they have at-bats it counts them and offers to invite the player to claim them instead, because Remove and delete stats takes those at-bats out of the team's stats and there is no undo.

A roster-only name is temporary without having to be, which is the whole point of it. If that teammate does install the app and join the team, they can claim the name, and the season you typed for them becomes theirs with no re-recording and no change to a single team number. The Invite button on their row shares the team's invite link for exactly that.

One thing to keep apart from all this. Taking a roster-only name off the roster is not the same action as taking a teammate with an account off the team — that one is on the person's own page, it deletes nothing, and their at-bats stay in the team's totals.

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