Conducting Baseball Evaluations with a Sports Evaluation App
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It’s time to take your baseball team assessments to the next level. SkillShark has a more efficient and effective way to conduct baseball evaluations. By leveraging a sports evaluation app, you will ensure consistent evaluations, minimize data inaccuracies, and gain valuable data for informed decision-making.
In this article, we will explore the advantages of using a sports evaluation app for baseball team assessments. Discover how this digital solution can revolutionize your evaluation process and advance your team.
What Are The Benefits of a Sports Evaluation App?
1. Streamlined evaluations
SkillShark allows you to create customized evaluation forms, easily score players on your mobile devices, and analyze data from auto-generated reports. This saves time spent on data entry and configuration of reports and evaluation templates.
2. Objective assessment
With SkillShark, you can add third-party evaluators to conduct unbiased evaluations. SkillShark’s evaluation forms provide structured criteria and rating scales, guiding evaluators to focus on the objective aspects of player performance.
3. Player performance tracking
Using an evaluation app enables you to record and track individual player performance over a series of events. This valuable feature allows you to monitor player development, identify emerging trends, and make well-informed decisions regarding player placement.
Individual development report
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
4. Player feedback
Using a sports evaluation app, share evaluation results with athletes through individual report cards. Attach additional comments and/or add videos to enhance the level of feedback players receive. An individual report will show athletes exactly what they are excelling at and what areas need extra work.
Athlete report card
5. Athlete engagement
Interactive features of a sports evaluation app, such as real-time leaderboards, can increase player engagement. With leaderboards, players can track their progress, compare their performance with others, and strive for improvement — positively impacting their dedication and commitment to the sport.
Wrapping Up
Next time you are conducting any baseball evaluation, turn to a sports evaluation app to do the heavy lifting for you. From reducing data entry, engaging athletes, and providing player feedback, using a software is an ideal solution.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We’ve evaluated approximately 1200 players this season. It was super simple and convenient. 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
FAQ — Evaluating Baseball Players
• Hitting – bat speed, contact, mechanics, connection
• Speed – 60Yd dash, home to 1st, home to 2nd
• Outfield – accuracy, arm strength, mechanics
• Infield – throwing velocity, mechanics, accuracy
• Character – work ethic, leadership, coachability
As baseball athletes are in the early stages of their development, conducting assessments and providing detailed feedback to each athlete will help them flourish throughout these pivotal years.
However, by assessing players and sending detail reports on one app, athlete evaluation software is the best format to provide clear, concise, and timely feedback.
Coaches can score athletes from their mobile devices and then instantly run individual reports, emailing them directly to athletes.
Rather than including numbered scores for every skill that was evaluated during a baseball tryout, include comments instead. I.e., When evaluating a player on hitting, comments could include, “Pay attention to your weight transfer, balance, and bat speed when hitting.”
With multiple evaluations comes the need to look at how your players are progressing. By creating a standardized evaluation template to use at each assessment, coaches & evaluators can score players on the same skills. Then, when a player development report is run, on baseball software like SkillShark, you can look at whether your players are improving on a specific skill or if they need further improvement.
For instance, if you notice several of your players have a declining score within the category of “hitting,” you can work with your players on baseball hitting drills at your practice sessions.
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.
