Dear dimwit on the phone

It's still a pain in the ass, no matter how many runs were scored.

 

It was 8-5. Thankfully it wasn't the softball game between the same teams that ended up 21-20.

Still, it's one of those things where you have to count through a couple times to make sure you didn't miss any runs. Or you luck out and find the final score on twitter to verify it.

 

I'm also in one of those boats where if I get anything turned in about a game I'm happy. It happens so rarely.

 

In our area, spring sports teams are TERRIBLE about reporting. We're lucky if we get 50% reported. One day this week, out of the 11 area events we didn't have a reporter at, we got stats turned in on four of them.

 

The last place I worked, most folks were pretty good at reporting, at least among the core schools. It meant spring regular season was a carpet bombing of phone calls almost every day (Friday tended to be light). You just wander in, get shelled, maybe send someone out to a game if enough hands are on deck. Hell of a 6-8 weeks.

 

A lot of our spring sports teams don't care about reporting stuff, so there's not much tennis or golf. Team sports are better but there are still schools that just never report anything.

Also, track & field and cross country should never even bother reporting agate to us since athletic.net is 1000 times more informative than our website could ever be.

 

Some schools here don't even know what that is.

 

Athletic.net is not a big deal here either (and I admit I just looked it up.) Our invitationals usually wind up on Milesplit's state site... eventually.

I have a template for dual-meet track results, but very few coaches even bother. I'm sadly OK with that, given the time it takes to clean those results up compared with pretty much anything else.

 

Everyone around here seems to like trackmeetmanager.com.

Also, I'm having a problem getting golf scores this year. I'm having to constantly remind the coach. This has never been a problem before. My guess is that he's closing in on retirement and has stopped giving a fuck.

 

Track coaches here are generally good on invitational meets, but not duals, which are an agate nightmare over the phone. Otherwise, we usually don't pay attention until league meets.

OTOH is swimming, where all teams have electronic scoring. They send in the recap sheet and I can knock out the agate for the boys and girls meet in about 15 minutes.

 

Milesplit is big here, too, and every meet is on the site within a day at the very most in most cases. The ones I hate are those that don't get uploaded until four days after the event -- and then some parent wonders why we never ran the results.

 

Back in the old days, before E-mail (yeah, I used a capital 'E' and a hyphen) and Internet access (see previous parenthesis), one of the meets a few of our teams went to would not provide results to coaches but the meet director would mail the results to the papers.