Run your softball league with a real box score
From the leadoff at-bat to a walk-off in the bottom of the seventh, BallOBall keeps the whole diamond — a true R/H/E line score, an at-bat-by-at-bat play log, hitting and pitching leaderboards built from the events your scorekeeper taps, and a broadcast-grade fan page. Runs cross the plate one tap at a time, hits and errors never inflate the score, and the box score balances itself.
- Runs
- Scored in
- Innings
- Played in
- 10
- Positions
One engine, tuned to Softball
The whole platform re-skins to Softball — labels, scoring, period structure, and brand accent all follow the sport.
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Run-accurate live scoring
A run is the only thing that moves the scoreline — tap it as each runner scores and the score moves on the tablet and the overlay together. Singles, doubles, triples, and home runs log as hits without double-counting; the RBI that drove the run is recorded separately, so the scoreboard always tells the truth.
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R / H / E line score
The classic runs-hits-errors line builds itself inning by inning across the seven-inning game. Every half-inning closes cleanly, the visitor and home columns stay in sync, and the line reads exactly like the one posted on the diamond board.
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Sabermetrics for the diamond
AVG, OBP, SLG, and OPS for hitters; ERA and WHIP for pitchers — all derived from the at-bats, walks, and outs your scorekeeper already logs. The advanced numbers are computed live, with no spreadsheet and no post-game data entry.
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Seven innings, extras handled
Regulation is seven, but a tie keeps playing — the inning model rolls into extra frames automatically and the console relabels each inning correctly past the seventh. No mental math at the table, no generic quarter clock on a game that has no clock.
A Softball console & table — not a spreadsheet
The scorekeeper buttons and the standings columns below are exactly what Softball gets — generated from the sport engine, not a generic grid.
Example · Runs · live to the fan page
Scores runs
- Run+1
Tracked events
- Single
- Double
- Triple
- Home Run
- Walk
- Strikeout
- Out
- RBI
- Stolen Base
- Error
- Substitution
- Ball
- Strike (Swinging)
- Strike (Looking)
- Foul Ball
- Pitching Change
| # | Team | GP | W | L | Win % | RF | RA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Northside | 12 | 9 | 1 | .900 | 42 | 18 | +24 |
| 2 | Riverside | 12 | 7 | 3 | .700 | 33 | 25 | +8 |
| 3 | Harbour | 12 | 5 | 5 | .500 | 29 | 30 | -1 |
Positions
- P
- C
- 1B
- 2B
- 3B
- SS
- LF
- CF
- RF
- DP
Played in
- 7 × Inning
The full Softball operation
From the first fixture to the broadcast scorebug — every surface your Softball league runs on, built in.
Schedules & tournament brackets
Round-robin seasons, weekend doubleheaders built by hand, and — with the Tournaments module — single- or double-elimination tournament brackets: the bread and butter of rec and travel softball. Conflict detection warns when a team or a field is double-booked, you set first pitch and the time slots, and a rained-out doubleheader is postponed and re-slotted by hand, with the standings untouched until it is played.
Tablet-first scorekeeper
Big touch targets for every diamond event — run, single, double, triple, home run, walk, strikeout, out, RBI, stolen base, error, substitution. Undo any at-bat, tolerate a dead spot in the outfield, and every play is pushed to the overlay.
Broadcast scorebug & overlays
A softball-themed scorebug with the count and inning, a batter lower third, and the R/H/E line as a break card — one browser source into OBS. The scorekeeper drives the graphics from the same tablet; no separate operator needed at the table.
Team fan pages
Publish the league and every team gets a branded public page with the live line score, the at-bat feed, the standings, and batting-average and ERA leaderboards. No login — parents, college recruiters, and supporters just follow the game from any phone.
What Softball leagues get
- 7 innings
Seven innings, and no timeout row
Regulation is seven innings, not nine — and softball is played without requested team timeouts, since a charged conference is an umpire's visit limit rather than an allowance a board should count. So a softball scoreboard leaves the timeouts block off the air entirely, and the broadcast lineup card fills nine fielders from a position list of ten: P through RF, plus the designated player.
- OPS-ready
Advanced stats, zero data entry
OPS, ERA, and WHIP fall out of the play-by-play automatically, so the recruiting-grade stat line that used to take a spreadsheet is live by the final out.
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Clipboards at the bench
Replace the paper scorebook, the group chat, and the post-game stats email with one tablet that scores the game, builds the box, and runs the stream at once.
Start your Softball league
From the leadoff at-bat to a walk-off in the bottom of the seventh, BallOBall keeps the whole diamond — a true R/H/E line score, an at-bat-by-at-bat play log, hitting and pitching leaderboards built from the events your scorekeeper taps, and a broadcast-grade fan page. Create an account, set up your organization and pick a sport. The free tier asks for no card.