Create an account and set your name

Sign 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.

Your name is not just for you. It is what a teammate sees on the roster, in the batting order, on every line of the box score, in the play log and on a share card — so an account that was never given a name of its own turns up as Player, and whoever is keeping score has to guess which row is you.

Whether you were asked for it depends on how you signed up. The email-and-password form does ask — Full Name on the website, Name on the phone — so if that is how you got here, your name is already on the account and these steps are a way to check it. Signing in with Apple or Google does not always: Apple only offers to share your name the first time you ever use it with an app, and nothing is guessed from your email address when it shares nothing — the account is simply called Player until somebody says otherwise. The phone asks in that case: an Apple or Google account that arrived without a name gets one extra screen on the way in, "What should we call you?", with no skip on it, so a phone signup is named before it reaches the app. The website does not ask, so an account created there from a provider that shared no name stays Player until you set it on the Profile screen below. The other step after signing up asks how you use Slug Stats, player or scorekeeper, and never comes back to your name.

On your phone

  1. Tap Create Account at the foot of the sign-in screen, under "Don't have an account?". The form asks for your Name, an email address and a password; Continue with Google is below it, and on an iPhone so is Sign up with Apple.
  2. On Home, tap your initial in the top right, the round badge with a gear on it. Profile opens with the name on the account in large type at the top, so you can see straight away whether there is one.
  3. Under PROFILE, tap Player Info.
  4. Tap Edit in the top right — or the card itself, or the Edit player info button under it. All three open the same editor.
  5. Type your name into the Full Name field and tap Save.

On the web

  1. Open slugstats.com and click Sign up free. The form asks for your Full Name, an email address and a password; Continue with Google is underneath it.
  2. Once you are in, open Profile. On a wide window, click your name at the foot of the sidebar and choose Profile, the first item in the menu. On a narrower window it is the round button with your initial in the top right-hand corner.
  3. Find the Player Info card, on the left on a wide window. Check the Full Name field and fill it in if it is blank or wrong.
  4. Nickname is optional and is what the short surfaces use — the leaders strip, the live-scoring chips, the team stats table — so put what your team actually calls you there.
  5. Click Save Profile. A "Profile updated!" message confirms it.

Changing your name later changes it everywhere at once, including on games that are already recorded: every screen reads it from your profile rather than keeping its own copy, so there is nothing to re-enter and nothing to re-record. Bats and Throws are the two fields on that screen that are deliberately left alone — they start out as Not set and nothing guesses for you, so the spray chart labels the field Left, Center and Right until you answer.

With your name on the account, the next thing is getting a plate appearance saved into the right game.

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