How Flex Scorebook works
Free scorekeeping that turns into something for every girl on your roster.
Two names, one thing
There are two websites and they are halves of the same company.
Flex Scorebook is the free app a coach uses to keep the book during a game. He taps a phone, one tap per pitch.
Fastpitch Authority is where those numbers end up — her profile, her stats, her ranking, and the part college coaches can see.
You do not have to use both. A coach can use Flex Scorebook and never look at Fastpitch Authority. A family can have a profile with nothing in it. But her stats only exist if somebody scored the game, and that is why the two are connected.
Create your team, add your roster
First name, last name, jersey number. That is all — about four minutes for a full roster. No birth dates, and no parent emails to chase before Saturday.
Score the game on your phone
One tap per pitch. It knows fastpitch rules — DP and FLEX as a proper pair, courtesy runners that do not take a player out of the game, re-entry, illegal pitch, and the run rule for your sanctioning body. Every tap is written to your phone before the network is touched, so it keeps working with no signal.
End the game
Every girl's line is written the moment you finalize. Box score, play-by-play and season stats, on your free team page and on each athlete's profile.
Send the claim links
Each family gets a private link to claim their own daughter. Until they do, she appears by jersey number only — her name is not published. Once claimed, her profile belongs to her family, not to you and not to us.
What if her coach does not use Flex Scorebook?
Then her profile will be empty, and we would rather say so plainly than take your money and let you find out.
Her stats come from games somebody scored in Flex Scorebook. No score, no stats, no ranking. We do not accept stats typed in from a paper book or another app for ranking purposes, because a number nobody can check is the exact problem we exist to solve.
What you can do: send her coach to flexscorebook.com (opens in a new tab). It is free for him permanently, it works on any phone, and it works with no signal at the field. Most coaches who try it keep using it because it is faster than paper.
You can also enter her past stats yourself. They will show on her profile, labeled self-reported, so a college coach can see them. They will not count toward her ranking.
What it costs
| What you pay | What you get |
|---|---|
| Freecoach | Full scorekeeping, free team website, claim links (the private link a family uses to take ownership of her profile), pitch counts. Permanently, not a trial. |
| Freefamily | Her profile, every game log, box score and play-by-play, and her ranking shown privately to you. |
| Fastpitch Plus $69.99/yr | Averages and rate stats, the full rankings board with names, weekly movement, her shareable card, 4 video clips. One subscription, both sites, every daughter on your account. |
| Recruiting $199.99/yr | Everything above, plus visible to verified college coaches, her school list, match alerts, 8 video clips. |
| Prospect Day $99 | One day, measured by our staff, results on her profile as verified — measured by our staff, not entered by anyone. 4 staff-shot clips included. |
| Club $499/yr | Every team in a club and every family in them, at no cost to those families. |
| College coaches | Free. Always. |
One subscription covers every daughter on your account. Annual billing. All sales are final.
Who can see her
- Before a family claims her: She appears on her team's public page by jersey number and position only. Her name is not published.
- After you claim her: Claiming means taking ownership of her profile so it belongs to your family. From then on you decide: her profile is private unless you publish it.
- Under 13: Never visible to college coaches. Enforced in our database, not a setting that could be switched by mistake.
- College coaches: Only see athletes whose families bought Recruiting and switched visibility on.
- Your contact details: Released only to programs she has added to her own list, and only from 11th grade. A coach she has not chosen has no way to reach you.
- Venue and start times: Never published for any game, on any page.
How the ranking is worked out
She is ranked against girls in her own age group, division — A, AA, AAA or Major, the competition level her team plays at — and state, then her region, then the whole country. Hitting and pitching are separate.
Rates are adjusted for how little a player has played. Three at bats is pulled toward the average; eighty is not. That stops one good afternoon topping a board, and it means a hot start settles into reality over a season rather than collapsing in a week.
Rankings are recalculated every Monday. Nothing about paying us, or attending our events, is part of the calculation.