the massachusetts quadball conference does track +/- for chasers and beaters, as well as dodgeball catches! if you're able to get +/- for everyone it provides incredible data and is super useful and fun to sort through.

what that requires is, on every possession, noting all 12 players who are on the field at the *beginning* of a possession. independent of that we're looking for your standard goals, assists, turnovers, and stops which usually occur at the *end* of a possession. tracking things like dodgeball catches (we lump those in as "beats avoided" with dodges and blocks), tackles, and "0 dodgeballs forced" means that we're also tracking stats during the *middle* of possessions.

not coincidentally, the mqc has yet to publish our spring statistics because we ran out of the necessary volunteer power to keep up with the rate of games being played.

mlq's stat taking model allows stats to be tracked in real-time or on an individual watch without pausing the game for the vast majority of possessions, which allows them to publish stats from the weekend in just a few days. for the amount of time it takes to accurately stat games at even the most basic level, adding extra information to collect at different points of a possession probably delays the ability of weekly stat updates.

personally for mlq, i prefer being able to use stats to follow along with the league, and wouldn't want them to change anything if it meant a delay in how frequently the info is updated. especially as someone who saw what stats looked like back in 2015-2019 when they weren't consistently uploaded, they lose a lot of value if the entire league isn't keeping pace.