🎯 Scoring a match

From picking a sport to the final point.

1. Choose a sport and rules

Start a new match

Tap a sport on the dashboard's Play now grid for a one-tap start with your last rules, or Play in the top bar (the + button on a phone) for the full wizard. Pick a sport tile.

The wizard: sport tiles grouped by category, then presets and every rule

Presets do the thinking

Every sport has built-in presets (ITTF standard, USA Pickleball doubles, Fast4 tennis, BWF badminton, high-school basketball, slow-pitch softball, knockout soccer with penalties and more). Pick one, then change any field, including the House rules group: skunk, caps, handicaps, side-out scoring, mercy rules, exact finish. Pro and Premium accounts can save their own presets for next time.

What the options mean

Format: singles or doubles (teams for court and field sports).
Series length: single game or best of 3/5/7.
Points to win and win by 2: when a game ends.
Swap ends in the deciding game: a one-time reminder at the midpoint of the game that can decide the match.
Who serves first: a side, or a coin flip resolved by the app.
Sport specifics: table tennis serves per turn (2 or classic 5); pickleball side-out vs rally scoring and the freeze rule; tennis no-ad, tiebreak and match-tiebreak options; clock sports' periods, shot clock, overtime, sudden death, shootouts and mercy rules; baseball innings, outs, run caps and extra-inning limits.

2. Who is playing

Four ways to fill a slot

Me: you, the host.
Name only: a quick guest. Shows on the scoreboard, does not build a record.
Name + email: a tracked player. Their record and rating accumulate under that email, and merge into their account if they ever sign up.
Score All account: look them up by email. They get an invite email with the live link.

Team logos

With a Pro or Premium plan you can upload a logo per side. Logos belong to the match, not the overlay template, since the teams change every time.

3. Launch and share

The launch screen

After you create the match you get a QR code for the referee console, buttons for the console, the spectator scoreboard, the broadcast overlay and the pregame lobby, plus the copyable overlay URL and the six-digit TV code. Anyone can type that code at score-all.com/tv to open the scoreboard on any screen.

4. The referee console

Tap to score

Racket sports show two big tap zones. Tap the side that won the rally. In pickleball side-out mode, tapping the receiving side records a fault (serve passes, no point). Button sports (basketball, football, bocce, shuffleboard, baseball) show the point values per side, plus Foul, Timeout, Out or shootout buttons as the sport needs, with a clock bar underneath for timed games.

The referee console: big tap zones, serve indicator, undo, fault, fix, audio and voice

Undo and Fix

Undo reverses the last action and restores the exact serve and position state. Fix lets you set scores, games, serve, fouls or the clock directly if things got out of sync.

Audio, voice and buttons

Audio speaks the score after each point in the language you choose.
Voice (Chrome and most Android browsers): say "left", "right", "fault", "undo", or "right three" in basketball.
Keyboard: ← and → score, ↓ or space is fault, Backspace is undo. Any Bluetooth clicker or foot pedal that acts as a keyboard works.
Remote (Pro and up): per-match URLs a microcontroller or webhook can hit to add a point without a browser.

Ending a match

Matches finish on their own when the win condition is met (or the final period's clock expires). You can also tap End at any time to record the current score as final. Everyone with an email on the roster gets the result.

5. After the match

Stats: per-sport ratings, record and opponent rankings

Recap, history and ratings

Every match has a recap page with the play-by-play. Your dashboard shows recent matches; Pro and Premium unlock the searchable history and opponent rankings. Ratings are Elo, per sport, and only count matches against tracked players.