How An App Called GameChanger Hopes To Decrease Arm Injuries In Youth Baseball

Released in 2010, GameChanger is an app and website dedicated to helping young pitchers stay as healthy as possible over the course of their career.

GameChanger Media, the app’s developer, hopes to cut down on overuse injuries in baseball and softball by making it easier for coaches and others to keep track of the number of pitches thrown by a specific player.

In Little League baseball’s official rules, there are guidelines as to how many pitches a pitcher at a certain age can throw in a game, in addition to the number of calendar days of rest they need to observe before being allowed to pitch again. Therefore, it is no surprise that GameChanger is the official scorekeeper of Little League.

Along with being an effective tool in protecting amateur arms, GameChanger is useful in keeping score, stats and other vital information coaches can use at their disposal. Coaches can also pass along feedback such as ground out/fly out percentage, pitch type breakdown, and much more.

One unique feature of the GameChanger platform is the ability to keep outside parties notified of the action with simulated, real time updates provided by an individual at the game.

Scorekeepers with the app can record advanced fielding statistics such as assists and put outs, manage a running game clock, track a player’s pitch types, as well as velocity. They can also note the number of at bats in a game.

Those who wish to hone their scorekeeping skills have the option to practice within the app without hindering official numbers.

The GameChanger app is not only just for baseball and softball. It can be used to keep track of basketball games and within the next year, lacrosse, too.