Tidy up duplicate or empty seasons

The 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.

Three things go wrong with seasons, and none of them means anything was lost: the same league listed twice, a season with no games in it, and a row labelled Unknown Season. Every game and every at-bat is exactly where it was in all three cases — what is wrong is the label the games are filed under, and relabelling is all any of this takes.

Start with Unknown Season, because it reads like a bug and is not one. It means a game is pointing at a season the app cannot find: one that has been deleted, or one that has not been synced to this device yet. The games and the at-bats are all counted on that row — which is why it has real numbers in it — and the only thing missing is the name. You see it in By Season on the website's Performance page and in Season Breakdown on the phone's Stats tab. No Season, which looks similar, is a different and perfectly ordinary thing: a game that was never filed under a season at all.

Deleting a season does not normally leave one behind, because deleting one unlinks its games first — they fall back to No Season rather than to Unknown. So Unknown is usually the state in between: a teammate deleted the season, or made one you have not been sent, and this device has the game but not the season. On the phone that makes a sync the first thing to try, before changing anything. Clicking the Unknown row on the website is the one thing not worth doing: it filters to a season that is not there, so it answers with nothing — the same cause, not a second fault.

On your phone

  1. Open the Games tab and pull down once to sync. If the Unknown Season row was only this device being behind the rest of the team, that is the whole fix and there is nothing else to do.
  2. Tap the game, then the pencil in the header — Edit game.
  3. On the Edit Game screen the chips under Season are the ones this game may use. None is the first chip, and + New makes a season on the spot if the one you want no longer exists.
  4. Tap Save.

On the web

  1. Open the game — from Games, or from the team's schedule.
  2. Click the pencil in the game's header. The Edit game dialog opens on the same form the game was created with.
  3. Set Season. The picker offers exactly the seasons this game is allowed to use — the team's, on a team game, or your own on one you keep yourself — and No Season is the first option, which is the right answer for a game that belongs to no season.
  4. Click Save Game. The Unknown Season row goes the next time the numbers load, and its games appear under whatever you just picked.

Now the duplicates, which have one specific cause: team seasons did not always exist. Before they did, each member filed their own games under their own season, so a league everybody played in came out as one season per member — same name, one slice of the games each. Both apps offer to fold those together, and the offer only appears when there is actually something to fold, so an empty space where this card would be is the answer that nothing needs merging.

On your phone

  1. Open the Teams tab, tap the team, tap the pencil in the top right, then Team seasons.
  2. The merge card sits above the list: Games filed under personal seasons, one row per name, with the game count and whose seasons they were.
  3. Tap Merge into a team season — or the button naming the season it will move them into, if the team already has one by that name. An alert spells out what is about to happen and Continue does it.
  4. The card disappears once there is nothing left to fold in. The personal seasons are not deleted: they stay behind for any of your own games that were not on this team.

On the web

  1. Open the team's seasons: Teams, the team, the Members tab, then Team seasons under the Team settings heading.
  2. The card at the top is headed Games filed under personal seasons, and lists each name with how many games are behind it and whose seasons they were.
  3. Click Merge into a team season. Where the team already has a season of that name the button names that season instead and the dialog is a one-button confirm reading Move games; where it does not, the dialog is the new-season form, prefilled with the name and the dates those games span.
  4. Confirm. The team season and the move happen in one request, so there is no moment where the season exists and the games have not followed.

Which leaves the empty leftovers — the personal season a merge emptied, or one you made and never used. Deleting a season never deletes a game, and it is not the destructive act it looks like: the games are unlinked and nothing else. On the website the card counts its games, so a season reading 0 games is one you can let go of without checking anything first.

On your phone

  1. A personal one: Profile (your initial in the top right of Home), Manage Seasons under RECORDING, then the trash icon on the row. The filter sheet behind the sliders icon on the Stats tab still reaches the same screen — it is simply the long way round now.
  2. A team one: Teams tab, the team, the pencil in the top right, Team seasons, then the trash icon on the row. The alert is the shared-season warning — "Games in this season stay, but will show no season. Every member sees this change."
  3. Either way the games survive and read No Season in the Season Breakdown afterwards, exactly like a game that was never filed under one.

On the web

  1. A personal one: open Seasons in the sidebar — Manage seasons in the top-right menu on a narrow window — and click the trash icon on its card. The dialog repeats the promise: the games are not deleted, they stop pointing at the season.
  2. Or from the season itself. Open the card, click the pencil in the header, and Delete Season is the red button at the foot of that dialog.
  3. A team one: Team seasons on the team, then the trash icon on the season's card. Read this warning rather than the personal one — "Games in this season stay, but will show no season. Every member sees this change."
  4. Either way the games are still there afterwards and read No Season until somebody files them again.

None of this touches an at-bat, so none of it changes a batting average. Re-filing a game moves which season's totals it lands in, and that is the whole of the effect. If what you actually want to change is a game's result, its opponent or its date, that is the same Edit game form; if it is a plate appearance that is wrong, that is its own article.

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