The scoreboard

One app. The whole scorer's table.

Courtside installs on the laptop you take to the gym and replaces the scoreboard, the paper sheet and the stopwatch someone is holding. Nothing it needs to work lives on the internet.

The Courtside control panel.
The control panel. Two windows open at launch: this one, and the display for the TV.
The part that matters most

A clock that is right on every screen

Most scoreboard software keeps a separate countdown on each screen and lets them drift. By the fourth quarter the TV, the stream and the operator disagree, and somebody argues about it.

Courtside holds one time, and the moment it started running. Every screen works out the rest for itself from that, so they cannot drift apart. Under a minute it shows tenths, the way the rules expect.

  • Game clock with configurable period length and overtime
  • Shot clock with 24 and 14 resets, its own start and stop, and a buzzer
  • A clock lock, so two people cannot fight over the time
  • Period advance, manual time edit and a period reset
The Courtside TV display.
The display window, full screen on the second output.
Scorers

Phones instead of a paper sheet

Courtside puts a QR code on screen. Scorers scan it, the scorer sheet opens in their browser, and they are in. Nothing to install, nothing to sign into, as many of them as you have volunteers.

  • Tap the score, tap the player. Two taps and the basket is attributed.
  • Fouls tracked per player, with a warning at four and the fifth greying them out.
  • Rebounds, assists, steals, blocks and turnovers as they happen.
  • Live box score on the operator's screen while the game runs.
The Courtside scorer sheet on a phone, asking who scored the two points.
A basket has gone in. Courtside asks who.
Broadcast

Overlays that read the real clock

Every overlay is a browser source. Paste the URL into OBS and it is live, in your colours, with your crests.

  • Scorebug
  • Quarter break
  • Player card
  • Team stats
  • MVP
  • Final score

Transparent background, so OBS composites them straight over the camera. No green screen, no chroma key.

The Courtside scorebug over a camera feed.
The scorebug, composited over a live feed.

The rest of it

Genuinely offline

Fonts, scripts and QR generation are all inside the app. It has never needed to reach the internet to put a score on a screen.

Teams kept locally

Add teams, upload a crest, pick a kit colour, type the squad in once. It is all still there next Friday.

The Connect page

One page of QR codes: join the wifi, open a scorer sheet, open the control panel, open the spectator view. Hand somebody the phone and point at it.

Play by play

Every score, foul and rebound logged with the clock time it happened at. The whole game, reconstructable afterwards.

Export and keep

Box score as CSV, the full game as JSON. Your data, in files you can open in anything.

Standalone or connected

Run it on its own as Home versus Away, or pair it with Courtside Cloud and pick tonight's game off the schedule.

It is free. Go and get it.

Install it, open it, score a game. If it is not better than what you use now, you have lost ten minutes.