Pro stats weren't
built for kids.
Smoke a line drive the shortstop boots and batting average counts it exactly like a strikeout. Dugout Signals reads your GameChanger data the way the youth game actually plays — then tells you what to work on at Tuesday practice.
The problemGreat data.
Wrong yardstick.
Every coach knows batting average and ERA. Some go further — OPS, K%, WHIP. Every one of them was built for professional baseball, where a routine grounder gets fielded every time.
Your infield is still learning. The stats don't know that.
A shortstop with real range can post a worse fielding percentage than one who never gets near the ball, because the plays they didn't reach were never counted as chances. The numbers aren't lying — they're measuring the wrong thing for this level.
Dugout Signals reads the same game data against a yardstick built for youth ball, and tells you what it means for Tuesday's practice.
How it worksAll your scorekeeping data.
Finally makes sense.
No integration to set up. Send us your game data from GameChanger — every number your scorekeeper captured, down to the play-by-play most tools never touch — and the analysis comes back almost immediately.
Get your game data from GameChanger
Your stats and box score exports, plus the play-by-play. The same short routine after every game.
Send it to Dugout Signals
Send it over and you're done. No tagging, no cleanup, no spreadsheet to maintain on the side.
Read your signals
Almost immediately: where your team actually stands, what changed since last week, and what to work on at Tuesday's practice. Written to be read once, not studied.
Every game you add sharpens the next read.
The metricsNumbers that fit
the level.
Dugout Signals explains the stats you already track, surfaces the ones worth knowing that you don't, and adds a set built specifically for youth ball. Two of them:
OPS with two changes to on-base percentage: reaching on an error counts as a hit, and hit-by-pitch comes out.
Putting the ball in play is a real skill when the defense is still learning, so a ball that gets booted should count for the batter. Getting hit by a pitch says more about the pitcher's control than the hitter's. OPSE tracks scoring more closely than OPS does — it's the better read on what a player is actually contributing.
The share of balls put in play against your team that the defense turned into an out.
The pros track DefEff but rarely lean on it, because it can't single out one player. That limitation is the reason it fits here: youth defense succeeds or fails as a unit. Fielding percentage only counts a play once someone already has a glove on the ball, so the balls nobody reached never count against anyone.
What you getBuilt for coaches,
not analysts.
Stats that fit your level
Where your team stands measured against how youth ball actually plays — not against a professional benchmark nobody on your roster can meet.
Analysis you can hand another coach
Every game and tournament written up in plain language. Send it to your assistants before practice and game planning instead of explaining a spreadsheet they'll never read.
Decisions, not spreadsheets
You don't pick which stats to look at. Dugout Signals reads all of them, finds what changed, and writes you the short version — what to work on, and who's trending.
Who it's forMade for your dugout.
Built for you if...
- You coach youth baseball or softball
- Your team uses GameChanger
- You coach Rec, Select, or All-Star
- Ages 8U through 14U
- You want what the numbers say without doing the math
Not a fit (yet) if...
- You don't use GameChanger
- You coach high school or college
- You need real-time in-game tools
- You want scouting reports on other teams
Early accessBe first
on the field.
Dugout Signals is in early access. Add your email and we'll tell you the moment it opens.