Run your basketball club
from one app.
A great many basketball players spend one winter in two worlds, a school team and a club team, and the two do not agree about something as ordinary as the number on a jersey. That is the shape of basketball administration: the same child, the same season, two sets of rules that each think they are the rules.
What a basketball season asks you to keep track of
Where everybody is on Saturday, and which set of rules they are under when they get there. Club basketball compresses several games into a weekend across gyms that are not yours, and a school season runs alongside it with its own governing body. Most of what a coordinator does is answer the same question about a different building. The rest is quieter and catches people out: a fact about a player that was fine in one world can be against the rules in the other.
The number on the jersey is not the same field in both worlds
High school basketball allows a closed list of 37 numbers: 0, 00, and then 1 to 5, 10 to 15, 20 to 25, 30 to 35, 40 to 45 and 50 to 55. The digits 6, 7, 8 and 9 are illegal in any position, and a team list cannot carry both 0 and 00. Club basketball under AAU allows all of them, 0 and 00 through 99. Both rules are published centrally by the body that sets them, so neither is a local question, and a player who wears 27 all club season cannot wear it for school.
Why a rule about digits exists at all
It is not arbitrary and knowing the reason makes it stick. Officials report numbers by hand and by voice, and the excluded digits are the ones that are slow or ambiguous to signal, so the legal list is the set a scorer can take down without a query at the table. That is worth telling a parent who has just been told their child cannot keep the number they wore all summer, because "the rule book says so" and "so the scorer gets it right first time" are the same fact and only one of them sounds like a reason.
We store the number you type, and we do not check it
This is a decision rather than a gap. A single validation would be wrong in one of the two worlds: enforce the school list and we reject a legal club number, enforce the club range and we quietly accept a number that gets a school team penalized at the table. So Rostered holds what you enter and leaves the rule where the rule lives. What you get from us is a number that is the same everywhere it is displayed, which is worth more than a validation that is right half the time.
Two worlds, one winter, one family calendar
A player in both has two schedules, two coaches and two sets of expectations about turning up, and a family experiences that as a single week with collisions in it. That part is ours: one calendar carrying both, a practice that moves reaching the people it affects, and an answer to which gym before somebody is in the car. Neither governing body has any view about that, which is why it is the half a club can actually fix.
What a roster can say about a basketball player, and what it cannot
We record one position per athlete, from the five the sport is usually described with, so a roster tells you how a player is mainly used rather than everything a coach asks of them. It cannot tell you whether their number is legal for the competition they are about to play in, because that depends on which world they are in that day. The roster is for knowing who is on the team and reaching their family. The rule book is for the table.
Rostered does not validate uniform numbers, does not know which governing body a given game is played under, and will not stop a school team taking the floor with an illegal number on it. That check belongs where the rule is published and where the penalty lands, which is at the scorer’s table rather than in a club’s admin app.
What we run is the week both worlds share. One schedule with every game and practice attached to the teams it concerns, so a family with a player on the school team and a sibling in a club program sees their own week rather than the club’s. The venue on the event, because which gym is the most-asked question in this sport. And one notification per change rather than one per edit, so fixing the time and then the gym does not tell fifty families twice.
What basketball clubs get
- Positions
- Point Guard, Shooting Guard, Small Forward, Power Forward, Center
- Youth ages
- 7 to 19
- Governing bodies
- Amateur Athletic Union, USA Basketball, Jr. NBA
- Also included
- Polls, volunteer jobs, release forms, in-app club email, translation, locations with the forecast.
- Cost to families
- Free. No ads.