How do you evaluate a youth baseball player?

Create a list of important skill and qualities you feel are important. Now create a scale for each from 0 to 10 with 0 being the worst and 10 being the best.

Basic Youth Baseball Player Evaluation

Now you are ready to assign a score to each player at the tryouts. Many youth baseball league tryouts are held over several days with batting held one day and throwing/fielding on another. In this case evaluate only those skills being evaluated that day.

For qualities such as attitude evaluate each day and take the average over thee entire tryout period for the final score.

Weighed Average Youth Baseball Player Evaluation

Just as we did above, create a list of the important youth baseball skills and qualities that you feel important. But you realize that not not all the skills and qualities are equal. You may feel stronger about one skill than another. In this case we introduce the Weighted Factor.

A easy way to understand the weighted factor is to use an example and compare it with the basic evaluation above. Let's assume a youth baseball player is given a score of 8 for Arm Strength. For argument sake lets multiply that value by 1.0; the basic evaluation would assign a score of 8.0 Now let' assume you feel that arm strength is very important and should have more emphasis. Using the Weighted Average technique you have assign a "factor", say of 1.3. Now multiply the factor by the weighted factor of 8 X 1.3 = 10.4. The weighted average score is significantly larger than the basic score and reflects your strong emphasis on the skill of Arm Strength.

In designing your own formula you will need to consider a standard score and standard factor for skills and qualities when they may not apply. Again, be consistent with using the same values throughout the tryout.

Below is a comparison of the basic youth baseball evaluation score versus the weighted average score: The Weighed Score (WS) is calculated by multiplying the Basic Score (BS) by the Factor.

By using the weighed factor you get a more accurate score based on your assesment of skill and quality. Using the weighted factor method is an extremely valuable youth baseball league draft tips

Intangibles

Intangibles is a way to score variables that are covered by the other categories. One examples is that you know the player's family goes on vacation every summer for two months.