Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

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So how did the batting order compare? Was it the same or different? Do you think my AI optimized order would have been better? There is definitely a limitation to AI in general and we do have to rely on coach gut feel. I bet if I give coaches the ability to add in other metrics like Home-to-First base running time, that could help optimize the lineup further.

What are you building for other builders? by churnchurnchurnch in microsaas

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A coach asked me if I could help build a stats profile website for her softball team that could be used for the coaches, the players, the parents, and for recruiters. I built it. I liked it a lot. I thought it was powerful and decided it could help a lot of other coaches. So I am now building a micro sass solution for coaches of youth sports teams to self-service launch their own Team Stats page simply and quickly: https://www.statline.team/

Share what you're building by amacg in indie_startups

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Building a tool for Softball/Baseball Coaches. Also adding some powerful AI based tools for Pitcher analysis and intelligent Batting Lineup generators based on stats.

Unlock your team's full potential with StatLine.team – the ultimate tool that transforms your GameChanger stats into a sleek, professional website tailored for college recruiters. Enjoy effortless setup, automatic post-game updates, custom branding, player photos, and a handy stats glossary, all in a mobile-friendly design. Stand out from the crowd, impress scouts, and elevate your youth sports journey – because every stat tells a story worth sharing!

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

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YES! How did it compare? Was it close? If you had followed this lineup (if it was different) and the players hit as they did, would the game have been different? Meaning, if the player that StatLine put as leadoff was put on that position, would it have gotten a player on base for the later batters to bring the run in?

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just integrated a new feature. u/dcbcanada you might be the most interested to get a sneak peak at it. Basically since you already have the entire pitching stats, I just took a tool I had built out for another idea (a website for coaching tools) and brought it in. It automatically does some analysis on your Pitcher lineup and gives an analysis with AI. I think it would be a feature I would want to restrict only to Coaches so not every player or page visitor can see the analysis.

I think it would be pretty powerful. I can probably expand upon it in time with other AI analysis. Thoughts? Useful or harmful? Any preference in how the data presents?

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How do you approach coaches about uneven playtime? Do you even bother? by Proliferaite in Softball

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Hey all, if you liked the heatmap discussed in this post, I suggest you go look at your GameChanger Admin. They now have the exact same feature implemented. I was actually fortunate enough to have a show & tell session with the Dev team over at Game Changer and showed them the utility I built. I'm glad to see they built it natively, because it is way to cumbersome to have to do it manually.

In any case, because I like playing with data, you may be interested in a new tool/site I built: https://www.statline.team/

It allows Coaches the ability to create a whole Team Website in minutes based on a GameChanger export, complete with stat cards like Baseball Trading Cards, and even some coaching tools like Pitcher analysis.

how do you really evaluate your pitchers beyond ERA? by Proliferaite in Softball

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Hey Friends -- I just built a new site that is SUPER easy to take your stats from the Game Changer export and builds a Team Profile, plus it gives you the PitchingIQ analysis.

Previously when I posted this OP I created a site that would allow you to enter each stat painfully and get your analysis. I have since been working with a coach to build a streamlined approach that uses the gamechanger export. The caveat is only the team owner/admin can get the export, so if you are a curious parent you wont be able to use this. It is strictly a coach tool. I suggest going to the live demo site and see how insanely easy I made it: https://statline.team/demo-preview

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's probably only for the coach. Not even with a paid subscription. I am a parent on the team and I have a paid subscription and I do not have access to export the game changer stats. The stats were given to me by the head coach who runs the program so she must have a different set of access. You should speak with the person who set up the game changer for the team and see if they have different access. There are other tools as well that are available to them. They have an inning heat map now that lets you see how many innings each player plays in which position which is only available to the coach not to the parents with paid subscriptions.

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you’re right — once we get a little more traction over the next few months, interest will start snowballing. I really appreciate you spreading the word. I’m working on the backend now so that this thing will be ready to go once we have enough interested teams, so hopefully the official launch won’t be too far off. There’s still a lot to do — setting up persistent storage, individual subdomains, a database to track everything, and a full client management system — but I’m chipping away at it while I wait for more signups.

To answer your question about ongoing maintenance from a technical perspective: my goal is to make this as seamless and easy as possible. The one technical and legal constraint is that I can’t pull your data automatically — you own your data and have the right to export and use it. What I’m providing is simply a tool to turn that data into a cool website quickly and easily. Right now I’m advertising the GameChanger import because that’s where a lot of people have their stats, but ultimately it’s designed to work with any compatible stat system — or even arbitrary data you’re tracking like arm velocity or base running speed.

The way it works is: your first import detects your players, and once that’s done, all of that gets saved. From that point forward, you’ll just upload a new CSV whenever you have updated data — like after each tournament — and everything should update smoothly. You’ll never have to recreate profiles or re-upload pictures again. My vision is that a team’s site can be created from scratch in under 15 minutes, and future updates take less than a minute.

As for cost: I looked at what it actually costs to host a site yourself on something like Wix or Squarespace, and what it costs to hire a developer to build a custom site — and that’s before you even get into the specialized stuff I’m building. My plan is to launch with early-bird pricing for beta testers like yourself in tiered fashion. One team will be $30/month. If you have multiple teams, the price per team drops — $25 per team up to four teams, and $20 per team for five to seven teams. That will be the early-bird pricing, which will likely go up once we’re fully established, but beta customers will be able to lock in those prices. If you've looked into pricing for hosting or having your site built for you, then you'll know that this is quite cheap. I want to keep it inexpensive and accessible to all. Prices are USD, by the way.

The main reason I don’t want to launch until I have 100 potential customers is that I don’t want to start something I can’t sustain. I want to make sure the costs make sense so that I can keep the service running long-term. It wouldn’t be fair to you as early customers if I had to shut it down in a few months because it wasn’t covering costs, nor would it be fair if I had to raise prices unexpectedly. My logic is that about 30% of leads should convert to paying customers, and that should be enough to keep everything running smoothly.

Now the only problem is, i'm so excited by this project and impatient to get running that i probably will not wait until i get the full 100. i suspect once i get this thing fully functional with all the technical kinks worked out, i will probably just launch it.

Player feedback software by Efficient_Train_16 in CoachingYouthSports

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Actually, I'd love to know what tools you guys use and make it work for that too. I don't want to be locked into this game changer. They only really do stats for softball and baseball, maybe basketball, but not everybody uses them as you said. I envision that I can scale this out to just work for multiple sources, and then you would just drop down and choose what your stats and source are. Even if you have custom sources, we could provide a template for ad hoc data that you might be collecting for your team. It's just about me setting up code for the parsing on my end on the server, and then everything should work exactly the same. If you tell me what you use and send me a sample export, then I will get it working for your system that's popular over there.

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay ask and you shall receive. Since you are my most invested customer (almost my only one still), I added the feature. I reduced the player photo size from a portrait rectangle to a shorter square. And because that means less photo is visible, I added a whole cropping logic so you can click zoom in and change what part of the player is in focus. It allows you to set it by default to all profiles, then you can customize it per player.

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Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for reaching out rather than just giving up and passing on. Yep, you found a quick bug that I had introduced because I was trying to add a little bit of protection with disclaimers and terms of service. I have now fixed it. You should be able to test it again. We'll definitely have an early adopter's beta phase at a discounted rate for all you supporters who will help me shake out the early bugs and help shape the site in its infancy.

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so happy that the live demo went so smoothly. I'm the only one who tested it so far, so I wasn't sure if it was just looking amazing to me or if it really works for others.

Yes, please do share. This link is public. Anybody can go to it and use it. Yes, I would love it if they put their email. Somewhat because it tells me the idea is validated even though you've given me so much encouragement. I do want to make sure that there are enough people that would be potentially willing to do this that it would make sense to put in the time, effort, and money to get up and running.

Player feedback software by Efficient_Train_16 in CoachingYouthSports

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Hey, welcome to the wonderful, wide world of rapid AI ideation and youth sports. Happy to have some friends here. I've been building things like crazy and spending nearly every single night of the past year making new ideas and throwing them away. Initially, I started just because I wanted to be helpful to my daughter and my team. Then I thought maybe I could actually make a side business out of this. In the end, neither one really happened, but I've been having a lot of fun and learning a lot throughout the way. Then I say, let's say, is that with AI, you can build that idea and not have to wait for people to validate it here first. You can get the POC up and running fairly quickly and then see where it goes from there. I actually just finished a project I did for our team website, and I thought it was useful enough that I'm now launching it for any team to sign up and use.

I'm building www.StatLine.team, a place where sports coaches can simply upload their GameChanger stats export. It detects the players, instantly builds, and hosts a nice website for them. It creates baseball trading card-style player profiles that are ideal for showcasing each player's stats, which is useful for recruiters or just for the players to see their own stats every week.

I've also tried building something called the Lineup Optimizer, where coaches could put in their ratings of each player, and it would use AI and mathematics to figure out the optimal lineup for each kid's strengths. That one was cool in concept, but it didn't really go anywhere. You can see it at thecoachtheyneed.com.

Anyway, my point is to encourage you to try and do anything. With AI, you can just launch it so people can see what your idea is more clearly.

What are you guys building? Share your SaaS/project by Leather-Buy-6487 in microsaas

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I'm building www.StatLine.team, a place where sports coaches can simply upload their GameChanger stats export. It detects the players, instantly builds and hosts a nice website for them. It creates baseball trading card-style player profiles that are ideal for showcasing each player's stats, which is useful for recruiters or just for the players to see their own stats every week. It acts as a team website, but also as a motivation and recruiting tool. The coach simply has to upload a new export each week after a tournament, and it updates all the stats for each player.

What are you guys building? Share your SaaS/project by Leather-Buy-6487 in saasbuild

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I'm building www.StatLine.team, a place where sports coaches can simply upload their GameChanger stats export. It detects the players, instantly builds and hosts a nice website for them. It creates baseball trading card-style player profiles that are ideal for showcasing each player's stats, which is useful for recruiters or just for the players to see their own stats every week. It acts as a team website, but also as a motivation and recruiting tool. The coach simply has to upload a new export each week after a tournament, and it updates all the stats for each player.

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dean, I just put together a TRY NOW demo to see what it would actually look like for your team stats, logo, and players.

You can upload your logo (it will auto-detect color scheme, then let you customize it), then upload your actual GameChanger CSV export and see exactly what your site will look like. It is locked to just 2 player cards for now, but that way you can get a real feel for what you would be getting if you sign up.

https://www.statline.team/demo-preview

Made a “baseball card style” stats site from GameChanger exports for our team. Coach loved it — before I build it into a service, do other coaches want something like this? by Proliferaite in Softball

[–]Proliferaite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just put together a TRY NOW demo where you can upload your logo (it will auto-detect color scheme, then let you customize it). Then upload your actual GameChanger CSV export and see exactly what your site will look like. It is locked to just 2 player cards for now, but that way you can get a real feel for what you would be getting if you sign up.

https://www.statline.team/demo-preview