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Guides
Step-by-step help for everything in StatsCastr: setting up teams and seasons, logging stats live, fixing plays, and sharing the box score.
Getting started
Create your StatsCastr accountSign up free with Google or an email and password. It takes about a minute, and there's nothing to install.Your first game, start to finishThe whole setup in order, from an empty account to a final box score, with links to the detailed guide for each step.A tour of the dashboardYour home screen after you sign in. Live games, what's next, recent finals and your standings, all in one place.What you need: phone, browser and internetStatsCastr runs in the browser you already have. Here's what works best at the scorer's table, and what happens when the signal drops.Sign in, reset your password and log outGetting in, getting back in when you've forgotten your password, and logging out on a shared device.Your account and dataWhat's private, what's public when you share a game, and how to change or delete your account.
Teams and rosters
Add a teamSet up a team's name, mascot, sport, colors and logo, for your own team and every opponent.Edit or delete a teamChange a team's details at any time, or delete a team you no longer need.Add, edit and remove playersBuild and maintain a roster: add players one at a time, fix their details, and take them off.Import a roster from a CSV fileAdd a whole roster at once from a spreadsheet, with a preview before anything is saved.Roster positions for each sportThe position codes for every sport, what they mean, and where a position changes what you see while scoring.Your team page: player stats and scheduleOne page per team with its season record, every player's stats, and the schedule with results.
Leagues and seasons
Create a leagueA league holds your seasons, standings and stat leaders, and sets the rules new games use.Rulesets for each sport, and changing one for a single gameWhat each ruleset sets for every sport, how to change your league's default, and how to use a different one for a single game.Create a season and add teamsAdd a season to your league and put your teams in it, so their games count toward standings.Manage a season: dates, status and deletingRename a season, change its dates and status, remove teams, finish it, or delete it.How standings workWhich games count, what each column means, and how teams are ranked.Season stat leaders for each sportThe leader cards for each sport, which games count, and how the averages are worked out.Run more than one leagueAdd a league for each sport you cover, and switch between them with the active league.
Games
Schedule a gamePick the sport and both teams, choose whether it counts toward a season, and set the date and location.Scrimmages: games that don't countFull stats for preseason, practice and one-off games, without touching your season standings.Change a game's date, time or locationMove a scheduled game to a new date or time, or change where it's played, before it starts.Start a game and end itStart Game opens live scoring; End Game marks it final and opens the box score.Find a game: the games list and its filtersEvery game you've created, filtered by status, with the right button for each one.Delete a gameRemove a game for good, along with its stats, play-by-play and fan link.
Live scoring
Log stats live: team, stat, playerEvery play is three taps: the team, what happened, and who did it. Here's how the Live page works in every sport.Change the period and set the clockUse − and + to move between periods, and type the game clock. Here's how each sport counts periods, and how far overtime goes.Undo a play and use the play logUndo takes back the newest play in one tap. The play log lists every play, so you can delete or edit older ones.Edit or delete any play, during or after the gameWrong player, wrong team, wrong period? Open the play and correct it. It works during the game and after the final.Override the score by periodThe Live page's score-by-period table builds itself from your plays. You can type over it, but it only changes that table.Edit team and player totals (football and soccer)Football and soccer let you type over a team's totals or a player's line. Here's where, and how those numbers behave afterwards.Keep scoring when the internet dropsLost signal mid-game? Keep logging. Plays wait on your phone and send when you're back online, as long as the Live page stays open.Fix common live-scoring problemsThe Live page won't open, plays fail, the clock won't take a time, the score looks wrong. What each problem means and how to fix it.
Sports
Keep basketball statsEvery basketball button, what it records and what it asks next, from 2PT Made to Score Adjust, plus the clock and the box score.Keep football statsThe football quick-stat buttons, which team to tap for each, the team stats editor, and what lands in the box score.Track quarterbacks and running backs play by playLog every pass and carry with the QB and RB panels, credit receivers and defenders, and correct a player's line.Keep soccer stats, including possessionGoals with the scorer and assist, shots, saves and cards, the kickoff prompt and possession bar, and fixing team and player totals.Keep volleyball stats with rally scoringRally scoring, which team to tap for kills, aces and errors, the same-rally option, moving between sets, and what lands in the box score.Keep baseball stats, including pitchersEach baseball button, what it records, and how to set up pitchers so every batter counts against the right arm.Keep softball statsEach softball button, what it records, and how to set up pitchers so every batter counts against the right pitcher.Keep ice hockey statsEach hockey button, what it records, and how to log goals, assists, penalties and saves so the stat sheet adds up.Keep field hockey statsEach field hockey button, what it records, and how quarters, the clock and assists work on the Live page.Keep lacrosse stats: men's and women'sThe men's and women's lacrosse buttons, what each records, and how the game's ruleset decides which ones you get.Score and keep stats for a tennis matchLog each point with one button, and StatsCastr keeps the game, set and match score along with the stats.
ScoreCastr
Link a game to ScoreCastrConnect a StatsCastr game to a ScoreCastr match so your stats show up in the broadcast graphics.Create a game from a ScoreCastr matchUse a ScoreCastr link code to create the game, the teams and the rosters in one go, already linked.The ScoreCastr chip: Live, Catching up, Resync and UnlinkRead the link's status at a glance, send the latest stats again, or unlink the game.Fix ScoreCastr link errorsEach message you might see while linking or once linked, and the fix.Which stats show up in ScoreCastr's graphicsWhat a linked game sends to ScoreCastr, sport by sport, and what ScoreCastr keeps control of.