Beyond terminology, the Baseball plugin adds three baseball-specific behaviours: partial-inning notation conversion, separate Batting and Pitching performance sections, and adjusted squad-number display.
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Innings pitched are typically recorded with a special decimal notation:
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The plugin converts these on the fly when totalling statistics. So 2.1 + 1.2 = 4.0 (rather than 4.1 from naïve decimal addition). Conversion is applied through:
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To enable partial-innings conversion on a custom performance type:
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The sp_partial_innings post meta value is what the filter callbacks check.
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The performance entry interface is split into two sections corresponding to baseball's offensive (batting) and defensive (pitching) statistics. Each section is configured independently at SportsPress → Configure so you can record batting and pitching stats with their own metric sets.
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Squad-number display also differs between the sections: the plugin returns different defaults via sportspress_event_performance_default_squad_number and selectively hides batting-order numbers in pitching contexts via sportspress_event_performance_show_numbers (priority 20).
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The plugin filters sportspress_event_empty_result_string so that absence of a result for a player renders consistently with baseball box-score conventions (e.g. blank rather than 0).
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If your league records partial innings with a different convention (e.g. .3 for one-third), you can override the conversion by registering a higher-priority filter on sportspress_event_performance_add_value and returning your own conversion. The plugin's logic is in the add_value and total_value methods in the main plugin file.
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