Stat-tracking explainers, tournament-running playbooks, FINA rule breakdowns, and the kind of hands-on knowledge you can't find anywhere else online — all written by people who actually ran the desks.
Format selection, schedule math (game lengths, buffers), bracket seeding, game-desk volunteer onboarding, and the worst-case scenarios you should plan around. Field-tested across pool play, single-elim, and double-elim formats.
Pick a format (round-robin, single-elim, Swiss, weekly pods, multi-club), auto-schedule from one weekly preset, live standings with configurable tiebreakers, sheet write-back, and the per-team .ics + /leagues/{slug}/ SEO page that comes with publishing.
What every box-score abbreviation actually means, with the situational modifiers that distinguish a serious tracker from a casual one — 6-on-5 splits, FBU steals, Inside-2m saves, and earned exclusions.
Where TeamSnap wins (broad sport coverage), where Eggbeater wins (water-polo-specific stats, live scoring, tournament hosting, branded public pages), and which to pick based on whether you're a club, a host, or a spectator.
The current FINA rulebook in plain English — 30-second shot clock, 20-second exclusion window, the 3-kickout disqualification rule, brutality vs kickout vs common penalty, and the shootout sequence. Written for the volunteer at the desk and the coach on the bench.
Pool-play math, tiebreaker order, cross-seeding, and single-elimination templates for 4, 8, 12, and 16-team tournaments. Plus a downloadable bracket sheet you can copy-paste into your own spreadsheet.
Hand a spectator a tablet, give them this guide, and they can score a water polo game in five minutes. Action button cheat sheet, picker modifiers, common mistakes and how to fix them, plus the End Game referee sign-off.
Every modifier in the Eggbeater scorer on a single printable page — 6v5, Counter, Forced Ball Under, Inside 2m, Kickout, Common Penalty, Earned Exclusion — plus the 3-kickout BENCHED rule and an action-button quick-reference table. Tape it to the game-desk laptop.