Box scoring with Eggbeater.

Box scoring means recording every significant event in a game (goals, exclusions, turnovers, saves) as it happens, right from your phone or tablet. Eggbeater turns that live data into a running score, a detailed play-by-play log and player stat summaries that spectators can follow from anywhere. No special equipment and nothing to install: open the Eggbeater app, log in to score, and you are ready to go. It is the same guided scorer on the web, iPhone, Android and the admin panel.

• Real-time for spectators. Every goal and period change reaches spectator devices within seconds, with no page refresh.
• Full play-by-play. Goals, exclusions, turnovers, saves and timeouts are time-stamped and attributed to individual players.
• Player stats. Goals, assists and GK saves add up on each player’s card across the whole tournament.
• Instant alerts. GroupMe and Telegram notifications go out automatically when games start, goals are scored and final scores are posted.

Scoring is password-protected so only authorized people can enter live scores. Your club admin sets the password. Ask your head coach or tournament director if you do not have it.

1. On iPhone, first turn on Scorer tools: tap the gear icon at the top to open Settings and switch on Scorer tools. This reveals the Score this game button. It is a one-time step; on the web and Android the button is always shown.
2. Open the Eggbeater app and go to the Scores tab. You will see a Score this game button. Tap it.
3. Choose what you are scoring: a “Tournament / League” game, or one of “My Club’s” own games. Both broadcast live to spectators. If you pick My Club on a game that is part of a tournament or league, Eggbeater warns you that it sends a separate club feed that can diverge from the official score.
4. Enter the scoring password and tap Continue. The board opens directly on the live game. There is no separate “open a game” step and no 6-character code to type in.

You do not pick a game or confirm cap colors. The board opens on the live game already set up. It seeds the current period and clock from the live game, puts both teams on the correct sides, and labels each team’s cap color (White or Dark) automatically.

• Score header. Both team names with their cap-color badge and the running score. Your own team is highlighted.
• Game period bar. Start, Q1, Q2, ½ Time, Q3, Q4, with SO appearing only if the score is tied at full time.
• Live to fans. A status pill shows the board is broadcasting. It reads “Saving…” for the moment an event is syncing.

Open a game again mid-stream and the board picks up exactly where it left off. It rebuilds itself from the live game’s existing events.

• The score, period and game clock resume at their live values, not 0 to 0 at the top of the period.
• Kickout counts and any ejections (BENCHED players) are restored, so the 3-kickout rule keeps counting correctly.
• Every new action is added to the same live stream and broadcast to spectators.

Eggbeater has a built-in countdown clock for the period. It opens already seeded from the live game and counts down by itself once it is running. The big clock display shows the minutes and seconds left, and the clock time-stamps events in the play-by-play independently of the physical scoreboard at the pool. The clock runs on a wall-clock timer, so it stays accurate through a phone lock, a backgrounded app or a throttled browser tab. It repaints when you come back. It does not drift.

• Start / Stop. Start begins the countdown. Stop pauses it for an extended stoppage or to match the pool clock again. Tap Start again to resume.
• Sprint Won. At the opening sprint, tap Sprint Won. It starts the clock and logs the sprint in one tap.
• Reset Clock. Resets the clock to the full period length without changing the period or score. Use it if the official clock resets and you need to catch up.
• Tap the clock to set an exact time. Tap the big clock to open a M:SS editor, type the minutes and seconds, and tap Set to back it up or correct it to the pool clock.

On the native iPhone app you can press a volume button to start or stop the game clock without looking at the screen. It is a hands-free toggle for when your eyes are on the pool. It works only on iOS. On the web and Android, use the on-screen Start / Stop.

The clock can feel like pressure if you are scoring at home for fun, or as a coach reviewing yesterday’s recording. A Clock pill in the period card flips the clock OFF so you score by period alone.

• With the clock OFF you do not run a countdown at all. You advance the period bar as the game moves.
• The period bar (Start, Q1, Q2, ½ Time, Q3, Q4, SO) stays visible. You still tap to advance.
• All scoring action buttons stay (Goal, Excl, Turnover, Attempt and the rest), without a running clock.
• Events still record real timestamps under the hood and broadcast in real time. The play-by-play orders them by period and recording order.

Goals are the most important events to record accurately. Every goal immediately updates the live score for spectators and triggers the goal notification flow. The rhythm is tap the action, then tap the player. There are no plus and minus steppers.

1. Tap Goal (your team) or Opp Goal (the opponent). There are two large goal buttons. The score counts at once and the current period and clock are captured automatically.
2. Tap who scored from the cap-number list. Do not know it? Tap “Unknown / no cap” and the goal still stands.
3. Add goal tags if they apply: 6-on-5 (scored on the power play), Backhand (BH) or Counter (a counter-attack goal). Counter and 6-on-5 cannot both apply to one goal.
4. Add an optional assist. After the scorer, tap the player who assisted, or tap “No assist”.
5. To correct a mistake, tap Undo last to remove the most recent event, or open the Play Log and tap the x on any row. The score steps back with it.

Tap Excl, tap the excluded player, then choose Kickout or Brutality. The man-up timer starts automatically for the team now on the power play.

• Kickout. A 20-second exclusion. It counts toward the FINA 3-kickout ejection: at two kickouts the player shows two pips, and on the third they are ejected (BENCHED) for the rest of the game and appear that way in every player picker and on the public box score.
• Common Foul. Its own button in the middle row of the board, not a choice inside Excl. A free-throw foul: logged, but it does not count toward ejection.
• Brutality. Ejects the player immediately (a 4-minute penalty). The team plays down regardless of their kickout count.
• Opp Excl. Tap this for an exclusion on the other team, then mark whether your team Earned it. An earned exclusion is recorded on the player who drew the foul, on your side.

Tap Turnover, choose what happened, then tap the player (where it applies). A turnover is its own event. Forced Ball Under is a turnover kind here, not a steal or a goal.

• Turnover kinds. Shot Clock Violation, Team Dump, Inside 2m, Forced Ball Under, Opp Steal or Other.
• Forced Ball Under (FBU). The ball-handler’s turnover. The defender does not get a steal.
• Opp Steal. Records the other team winning possession (pick the opponent player in tournament mode), keeping both sides of the event log balanced.

These add depth to the box score. Each follows the same tap-the-action, tap-the-player rhythm. Record them when the pace allows.

• Assists. Offered right after a goal’s scorer (or skip with “No assist”). Assist is never a button of its own.
• Steal. Inside Turnover. Tap Turnover, choose Steal, then tap the player.
• Blocks and goalie saves. Both live inside the opponent’s Attempt. Tap the orange Attempt and choose Block, GK Save or Miss. There is no separate Block or GK Save button. A save is credited to whoever holds the goalie spot on the lineup card.
• GK Steal. This one is its own button, for when your goalkeeper takes possession rather than saving a shot.
• 5m / Opp 5m. Log a 5-meter penalty for either team.

Tap Team TO or Opp TO for the team that called it. The chip shows how many timeouts each side has left (set by the admin). Pick the timeout length when prompted. The event is logged at the current period and clock.

The period bar runs in order: Start, Q1, Q2, ½ Time, Q3, Q4, with SO appearing only when the score is tied at full time. You advance by hand by tapping the next period. The clock stops at 0:00 and waits for you.

1. Wait for the whistle ending the period.
2. If the clock is still running, tap Stop.
3. Tap the next period on the bar (Q2, ½ Time, Q3 and so on). Selecting a period resets the clock to that period’s length.
4. When play resumes, tap Start (or Sprint Won at the top of a period).

SO appears on the period bar only when the score is tied at full time. Tap SO to move the game into the shootout. Spectators see it switch to Shootout.

• Keep recording goals for each team as the shootout rounds play out. The score reflects the shootout result.
• The period reads Shootout for everyone following along.
• When it is decided, end the game (below) to lock the final.

Lock the result once the final whistle blows. There is no “End Q” button for each quarter, only one End Game button. Referee sign-off is an optional add-on the admin can switch on (off by default, official Tournament / League feed only).

1. Review the score and Play Log for obvious mistakes. You can still Undo or delete events first.
2. Tap the red End Game button.
3. Confirm to end. The “End the game?” sheet shows the final score and warns that the result cannot be undone. By default that is all.
4. If the admin enabled referee sign-off, the sheet adds a required Game referee sign-off field. Enter the referee’s name to finalize.
5. Tap End game. The score locks and the game moves to History (showing “Signed off by [referee]” when sign-off is on), and the final-score notification goes to spectator devices.

Every time you record a goal, change the period or end a game, Eggbeater broadcasts the update to all spectator devices following that game. A Live to fans pill on the board confirms it is broadcasting.

• The current score and period update live.
• A LIVE badge shows while scoring is active.
• The play-by-play log builds in real time.

If your club has Telegram or GroupMe connected, these alerts go out automatically:

• Game started. Sent when the first period begins.
• Goal scored. Sent when a goal is confirmed, including the scorer’s name if entered.
• Shootout alert. Sent when the game moves to a shootout.
• Final score. Sent when the game is ended.