Your program, from yes to your first final whistle.

This is the whole intake. Send it however it already exists. We would rather transcribe a photo of a printed schedule than have you retype it.

1. Your school, and which squads you want set up (varsity, JV, boys, girls)
2. Your schedule: a link, a PDF, a spreadsheet, or a photo of a printout
3. Your rosters, if you have them handy. Cap numbers and names is enough
4. Who is actually at the desk on game night, and what device they will use

Worth knowing before you brief anyone, because it sets expectations for what the desk is responsible for. One person scores the game on a phone or tablet. Everything else follows from that single stream of taps, with no second job attached to it.

• Live score, visible to anyone following your team in about five seconds
• Box score, exclusions and shot detail: as much or as little as your desk wants to enter
• Season records and standings that update themselves, including ties
• A coaches report in your school’s colors that you can print or email

We send one invite link per person who needs to administer the program. Open it at admin.eggbeater.app and it binds to the account you sign in with, so it is worth being deliberate about who clicks it.

• The link is single-use and binds to the first account that opens it
• Do not forward it. Ask us for a second invite instead. They are free
• Anyone can be an admin: the head coach, an assistant, a team volunteer who runs logistics
• Losing the link is not a problem. Ask and we will send another.

You should not have to configure a rulebook. High school play is the default, and the parts that most often get scored wrong are already handled.

• Quarters or halves, whichever your section plays. The period labels follow your choice
• A 30-second shot clock
• Overtime is two three-minute periods, then sudden victory
• No shootout: a tie is a legal final result, and it counts properly in your record and the standings

A realistic timeline, assuming you send the intake on a Monday and play on a Thursday.

• Monday: you send the four things above
• Tuesday: we set the program up and send your invite link
• Wednesday: your desk volunteer opens practice mode for ten minutes and scores a fake game
• Thursday: you score for real, and the spectators following see it live

Three ways, in ascending order of how much you already have typed up somewhere.

• Type it: cap number and name, about two minutes for a squad
• Paste it from a spreadsheet
• Photograph a printed deck roster and let the scan read caps and names, with a review step before anything saves

A program running an A and a B squad, or varsity and JV, gets a separate roster and a separate record for each. Three details matter and all are handled for you.

• Cap numbers restart per squad, so both squads can have a number 1 and they stay different people
• Stats attach to the player, not to the cap. A player who changes caps during the season keeps their season totals
• When your two squads play each other, that game is marked a scrimmage and kept out of both records

Enter games one at a time, paste a block from a spreadsheet, or send us the schedule and we will load it. Tournaments collapse into a single row and do not swallow your league schedule.

• Date, opponent, venue and start time is the full requirement
• A tournament entry becomes one collapsed row with its own record, openable to see the individual games
• Adding or moving a game later is immediate. Spectators see the change without doing anything

We already hold public data for schools across every state that plays, and where it exists we use it so you have less to type. Coverage is uneven. In California, roughly one school in six has anything usable, and it is better you hear that from us than find it out on a Tuesday afternoon.

• Many schools publish varsity only, so a JV roster may arrive empty even when varsity looks complete
• An empty roster is the source being thin, not the app failing. You can type one in either way
• Names sometimes arrive in the casing the original desk typed them in, and we repair only the clearly broken ones. We do not guess at acronyms
• Anything we load in advance is yours to overwrite. Your edit always wins.

A first-year desk can run an entire game on one button. Tap Goal for the team that scored and you are done. That is live on every phone following the game in about five seconds, and it is a complete, legitimate way to score.

• Tap the scoring team. That is the whole interaction.
• The clock, the period and the score stay in step on their own
• Nothing else is required for the game to count

The scorer is progressive, not tiered. The same board a first-year desk taps a dozen times is the board an experienced desk runs the full chain on. You never migrate off it. You grow into more of it.

• Who scored, then shot type, then assist, then where the shot came from
• The shot location step is explicitly optional and has a Skip
• Opponent tracking is a toggle that is off by default
• A desk running the full chain gets shot charts and exclusion tendencies out of the same game

Scoring is gated by a password that is separate from anything public. Anyone can follow. Only your desk can write.

• Set it once in the admin panel and give it to whoever is at the desk
• It is not the same as any code you hand out to spectators
• Change it whenever your desk crew changes. Nothing already recorded is affected

The parts of high school scoring that are easy to lose track of at speed are the parts the board tracks.

• Three exclusions and a player is out. Enforced, not remembered
• The re-entry countdown runs on the game clock, so it stays silent while the clock is stopped
• A forced ball under is recorded as a turnover, because that is what it is

The one step worth being deliberate about. Finalizing a game is what turns it from a live game into a result. It closes the game, writes the box score and lets the record and standings update.

• Finalize at the final whistle, from the same board you scored on
• A game left unfinalized keeps presenting as live, which is confusing for anyone following it
• If you forget, you can finalize it afterwards. Nothing is lost. It is only late

A local board that behaves exactly like the real thing and broadcasts nothing. This is where a new desk volunteer should spend their first ten minutes.

• Nothing entered in practice mode reaches spectators or your records
• Available without signing in, so anyone can rehearse before they ever volunteer
• Use it to try the full chain once so game night is not the first time

You share one link. Anyone who opens it can follow your team, in a phone browser or in the app, and see the game as it happens.

• Live score and clock, refreshing on its own
• The box score as it builds, not after the fact
• Schedule, results, standings and season records
• Grandparents three time zones away see the same thing as the spectator on the pool deck

Following a team is opt-in per person, so nobody is subscribed to anything by accident.

• A notification when a followed game goes live and when it goes final
• On iOS, a live score on the lock screen for the length of the game
• Every one of these is the individual spectator’s choice, not a program setting

The output side of the season, and the piece coaches tend to actually use. In your school’s colors, printable, and generated from games you already scored.

• Contributions for each player across the games they actually played
• Exclusions drawn and earned
• Shot tendencies and zone charts, for any team whose desk recorded shot locations
• Openable from your own team page with the password you already have

Nothing here is a separate job. It is what a season of finalized games adds up to.

• Season records that count ties properly and exclude your own scrimmages between squads
• Season totals for each player that follow the player, not the cap
• Standings that stay current without anyone maintaining a spreadsheet
• A permanent archive of every game, loadable into next season