Home Field ScorebooK 4+

App keeps crashing each time I press “Play Ball”

It’s a really good app other than this. My app keeps Crashing each time I do this and it’s very annoying, especially when I set the lineups only to have it all get erased when it crashes. Please fix soon! Thank you

Developer Response ,

Thanks for the positive rating in spite of the crash. Please get in touch using Send Feedback or Help>Support Website under the Settings tab in the app so we can figure out what is going wrong!

Decent but needs work

Pros: Can add a tremendous number of players to teams so if you want to score a Spring Training MLB game or if a team just has a lot of players, this app can handle it. Can add various leagues so you can score your kid’s baseball game and an AL MLB game with the DH. You can also assign multiple home fields to teams if you want/need to. Pretty cool extras include Pat Venditte mode to accommodate the rare switch pitcher situation. Support is pretty responsive also which is uncommon.

Cons: Very buggy. I tend to set the lineups for MLB games when they come out 2-3 hours prior to game time and by the time it is time to start, players are just missing. This happens often. Lots of tediousness as well. Once the game starts, you can not view the batting order and the app uses an Undo button for correction however you can not go back to a certain point and make a correction so you have to hit Undo NUMEROUS times to correct. Also, it is overly complicated to handle classic NL double switches.

Overall, for a pay app, I expect more. There are some great features but it needs to be more user friendly and intuitive. Feels like work to use this app. Not a great replacement for a paper scorebook and overall does not make things easier to score digitally.

Usable, but needs more options

I have used the app for several years but there are 2 glaring problems for Little League. If you play in a league that allows a coach to play standard 9, or 10 with extra hitter, or bat all and put any 9 in the field...good luck. You must tell the app in advance how many players BOTH teams will be using. If they have 12, and you have 10, you will have 2 ghost batters in your order that you must advance past each time that they come due. If you have a 5 run rule...good luck. Very glitchy to end the inning when that run scores....sometimes the next inning will lead with the batter that got the 5th run in, other times it will be the proper batter, (God help you if it is the aforementioned ghost batter). Further complicating this is my league allows unlimited runs in a teams last at-bat. A simple addition to the “other play” tab would be “end 1/2 inning x run rule”.

Developer Response ,

These are good suggestions, but we haven’t yet figured out how to include all possible combinations of youth rules!

Ending a half-inning early is supported, though. Please submit a report on our support page (tap Help under the Settings tab) and we can look at your problem leaving the batter at the plate.