Claim the stats a teammate tracked for you

Join 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.

Here is the situation this is for. Somebody on your team has been keeping score all season, you were never on the app, so you were a roster-only name on their roster and your hits were recorded under it. Now you have joined. Joining does not move those at-bats to you by itself — claiming does, and it takes one tap.

Both apps offer it the moment you arrive. The team asks whether you are a player or a coach on it, and a player is then shown every roster-only name on the team with a line of that name's numbers underneath — games, average, hits, home runs — because the numbers are usually what tells you which one is you. Skipping the player-or-coach question still shows it; answering coach does not, since a coach has no at-bats to claim.

On your phone

  1. Join the team, by tapping the invite link or typing the code. The team opens with a You're in! banner.
  2. Answer the player-or-coach question. The sheet headed "Which player is you?" slides up next.
  3. Each row carries that name's games, average and hits, which is what tells two teammates apart when the roster has two of a name.
  4. Tap your row — the action reads This is me. A Claimed toast confirms it, and the at-bats land on your own stats with the sync that follows.
  5. "I'm not on this roster", at the foot of the sheet, closes it and leaves the roster exactly as it was.

On the web

  1. Join the team, with the invite code or the invite link. The team opens with a You're in! banner.
  2. Answer the player-or-coach question. "Which player is you?" opens straight after it.
  3. Read the line under each name before you choose — that is the whole season those at-bats represent.
  4. Click your row; the action on it reads This is me. A Claimed message confirms it and says how many at-bats are now yours.
  5. If none of them is you, click "I'm not on this roster". Nothing is changed and no name is touched.

A claim changes no team total, and that is worth stating plainly because it is the thing people are nervous about. It creates no at-bat and deletes none: every plate appearance recorded under that name was already counted for the team, and it still is. The team's record, its season totals, the bottom line of the season table and every box score read exactly the same before and after. What moves is which row they are printed on — out of the roster-only name and onto yours — and the fact that they are now in your own personal stats too.

The roster-only name retires at the same moment, which is the point: the team gets one row for you instead of two, and nobody has to remember that "Mike" and Mike are the same person. The at-bats keep the teammate who typed them as the person who recorded them, so if one of them needs fixing, it is fixed the same way any at-bat they recorded is.

Missed the question, or joined before anybody had typed your games in? It is on the team's Members tab from then on. Members who might be on that list see it as a banner at the top. Once you close the banner, or once you have batted for the team under your own account, a Claim link beside the Roster only heading takes its place. Whoever created the team sees neither.

On your phone

  1. Open the Teams tab, open the team, and go to its Members segment.
  2. The banner at the top reads "Are you one of these players?", with Claim at its right. Tap it. No banner? Tap Claim beside the Roster only heading instead.
  3. "Which player is you?" opens, and This is me claims the name.

On the web

  1. Open the team and go to its Members tab.
  2. The banner at the top reads "Are you one of these players?", with Claim stats at its right-hand end. Click it. No banner? Click Claim stats beside the Roster only heading instead.
  3. "Which player is you?" opens with the same list, and This is me does the same thing it would have done on the day you joined.

Two things to know before you tap. Neither app undoes a claim, so if the roster has two names you could plausibly be, read the numbers or ask whoever keeps the book — a second now beats a season of somebody else's hits on your record. And only roster-only names can be claimed: at-bats a teammate recorded while picking you out of the batter picker were yours from the moment they were saved, and there is nothing to claim there.

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