5 Reasons Why You Need to Use a Baseball Tryout App

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Baseball tryouts are an essential part of the game, serving as a platform to identify top talent and effectively draft teams. However, conducting tryouts and evaluating numerous players can be challenging and tedious if not completed correctly.

Many sports organizations use a baseball tryout app to streamline this process and ensure a fair assessment. This article will explore five compelling reasons as to why you should utilize one for your next round of tryouts.

Reason 1: Ensure Objective Assessments

A baseball tryout app provides structured rating scales and scoring guidelines, ensuring all athletes are evaluated equally. This method leaves little to no room for personal preferences, opinions, or feelings to influence selection. Rather, an evaluator will rank a player solely on the basis of their mechanics, contact, and bat speed.

Reason 2: Develop Players

By assessing and understanding each player's specific areas of expertise and areas requiring improvement, coaches can tailor their development programs to meet each player's unique needs.

Baseball tryout apps provide a structured report for capturing this information. Coaches can identify player strengths that can be further nurtured while pinpointing weaknesses that require focused attention.

Strengths vs. Weaknesses Report in SkillShark

Reason 3: Create Balanced Teams

With SkillShark, reports are automatically generated for you based on the scores entered during evaluations. After an evaluation, simply select the report(s) you want to view to rank and compare players.

These objective reports provide a detailed overview of each player's skill level, such as their speed, mechanics, and coordination. Coaches can use this data to determine which players are best suited for which position, building well-rounded and balanced teams.

Reason 4: Track Player Progress

By regularly conducting baseball player evaluations, coaches can track the progress of individual players, identify areas of improvement, and monitor their development. This approach allows coaches to assess whether players are meeting their development goals or if adjustments to training programs are necessary.

Individual development report

Reason 5: Improve Athlete Feedback

With player report cards, provided through a baseball tryout app, players are able to see what areas need more improvement. A score will be provided for each skill they were evaluated on & any supporting comments can be added. In addition, there is an option to add the team average score, allowing players to see how they rank compared to their teammates.

By giving constructive feedback, coaches create a supportive environment that nurtures players' growth, enhances their skills, and ultimately helps them reach their full potential.

Athlete report cards in SkillShark

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Customer Testimonials

Explore how SkillShark has transformed careers and organizations through real-life success stories. Join our community and streamline your athlete evaluations today.

"We’ve evaluated approximately 1200 players this season. Data entry usually took us eight hours a day, for fifteen consecutive days. With the volume of athletes that we need to process in one event, SkillShark has probably saved me about 120 hours overall."

Jordan Draeger

Owner & Operator — Going Yard Baseball

"SkillShark is an essential tool for all youth sport organizations to take advantage of. As coaches, it is our job to provide both reinforcing and constructive comments to young athletes. SkillShark has helped immensely with our player development and provides a superior solution to our program."

Bill Edwards

Hofstra Head Coach

"SkillShark is a fresh and simple way to do the evaluations that clubs already do, just better. By taking away administrative tasks, more time can be spent developing successful athletes and winning teams. My experience with SkillShark shows it to be a valuable method, and one that is sure to become the status quo."

Chris Shewfelt

Vice President, Toronto FC & Toronto Argonauts

"SkillShark has made tryouts for our baseball club so much easier. It is user friendly and the customer service has been TOP NOTCH!!"

Jill Blake Sutherland

Head Baseball Coach

"The program is very clean, looks professional, and parents & students really enjoy the digital reports. The team at SkillShark is always a phone call away and eager to help set up your program on answer any questions!"

Tyler Stahl

Notre Dame Academy

"Ontario's Canada Games program has athletes all over the province. Providing them feedback about their performance is our biggest challenge. SkillShark software makes it easy for our coaching staff and guest coaches to record data and share it instantly with athletes. It is a great tool for teams and organizations of any size."

Scott Searle

Softball Canada Coaching Committee Member

Frequently Asked Questions — Baseball Tryout App

Some primary benefits of baseball coaching software are:

• Check-in players and add walk-ons, right from your mobile device.
• Sort players into lists for simplified evaluations
• Select from a pre-filled evaluation template or customize your own.
• Score players on your mobile device. Add any additional comments or videos.
• Have instant access to evaluation results with SkillShark's auto-generated reports.

Coaches and evaluators can both use a baseball app for efficient evaluations:

• Coaches: Create evaluation templates, upload athletes, review player data, and send athlete report cards.
• Evaluators: Simply score athletes right from any mobile device.

Entering evaluation data into spreadsheets becomes a monotonous and time-consuming task (with room for human error).

With SkillShark, access auto-generated reports immediately after your evaluations are complete. In minutes, you will have access to advanced reporting, enabling you to easily rank & compare players, draft teams, and even provide individual player feedback.

Lucy Jakoncic

Lucy is a strategy and results-driven e-commerce & digital marketer, equipped with her BBA in Business Admin & Marketing. She brings in knowledge and experience from both startup and corporate environments. Aside from her professional pursuits, Lucy is an admitted sports fanatic, she feeds her addiction through active involvement and her passion for the sport of MMA. Her sports-minded entrepreneurial spirit has been a strong addition as both a writer and marketing strategist at SkillShark Software Inc.