No foolin'.

If you had read the CSBAstat R8.0 release notes (received May 2021), you would have learned there are new batting entry symbols. And you might have entered them sometime last year.

1. Virtual Earned RBI  ("^")

Background: I am sure that everyone has received an audit challenge where a "virtual unearned RBI" (symbol "V") was entered on a play where a "real RBI" cannot be awarded. The audit challenge says that an error must have occurred, so where is it? Sometimes there isn't one. 

This new symbol allows a virtual RBI that is not due to an error, thus it is a "virtual earned RBI". To be specific, this can only occur when a run scores on a double play ("G"), a  passed ball ("M"), a successful steal of home, a balk, or a wild pitch.

The new symbol is "^", which looks like an upside down "v" on purpose. This is a "virtual earned RBI" and must be entered in those situations, above.

Examples:    G^ (batter hit into a double play and an earned run scored ... there is no real RBI on the play)

                     T^R (batter hit a triple and later scored on a balk ... the run is earned ... there is no real RBI on the play)  

                     TQR^ (batter triples and steals home) 

The old "V" symbol still exists ("virtual unearned RBI") .You use it when a run scored after the defense makes an error. Such plays cannot awarded "real RBI".

2. Injury Days ("Z")

Background: There may be times where a player is injured for many, many games. In the past, you had to spread the Y's across multiple entry fields because they are only 10 characters wide.. For example, a player injured for 19 games might get NYYYYYYYYY and NYYYYYYYYY and NY so the Y's totalled up to 19...

The new symbol ("z") represents five injury days, augmenting the continued use of single injury days ("y"). They will work like Roman numerals. That example, above, would be NZZZyyyy and it all fits into one entry field.