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1. Name your team on the Roster tab. It prints on every sheet.
2. Add players individually or paste the whole roster at once with Bulk Add Players.
3. Set Positions & Strength for each player. This is the step that matters most. Mark every spot they can cover Strong, Solid or Developing; leave the rest blank. Strength wins contested positions; blank means never placed there.
   Rate at least three spots each, four or five for players who can handle it. A player rated at one spot can only play there or sit. That's the usual cause of uneven bench time. The Rate by Position board does this in nine quick questions — “who can play short?” — tap the players who can, and the setup flow takes you there; the setup checklist at the top of the Roster tab tracks what's left.
4. Rate a player at P to make them a pitcher. That's all it takes. Set their League Age too
5. Paste your season schedule so future games load with one click. (Never sits lives on the Build Lineup page — it's a game decision, and it carries over between games.)

1. Build Lineup tab. Pick the game from your schedule, then uncheck anyone who's absent today. Your batting order carries over from last game automatically.
2. Set the Pitching Plan: who throws which innings. The tool shows who's rested and blocks anyone who isn't. Whatever you have logged on the Pitching tab prints on the game sheet too, under Arms · Rest Owed: what each pitcher threw last time out and the date his arm frees up.
3. Set the batting order. Use the arrows beside each number to move a player up or down, or type a number to send them straight to that spot. Everyone else shifts to make room. The list always runs 1 to however many are playing, so you cannot end up with two number fours or a gap at six. Bench someone and the order closes up behind them. The printed sheet is built from it; if you skip it entirely, the tool offers to number everyone for you before you reach Print.
4. Choose your lineup type, then click Fill Remaining Positions. Adjust any cell by hand afterward. Nothing is locked. Two other buttons sit beside it, and none of the three touches your players, batting order or absences:
   • Redo Fielders re-solves the fielding spots and keeps your Pitching Plan.
   • Clear Positions Only empties the grid, pitchers included, so you can assign it all yourself.
5. Check the box below the grid. Red = fix it. Amber = worth a look. Green = you're good. A position nobody available can cover shows up red and stays there until you fix it, so a sheet never quietly goes out a fielder short.
6. Save Lineup, then head to Print for your one-page landscape sheet, or copy the text version for parents. Anyone you unchecked is left off it. Along the foot of the sheet is a rule band you can point an umpire at: the color key, every rest tier and all three catcher limits.
7. After the game, log pitch counts under After the Game on the Pitching tab, and the final score beside them if you want a season record. Every future rest calculation depends on the pitch counts.
8. Next week, just set the new date. The tool starts a fresh game and leaves last week's saved. It says so and offers to move the old game instead if that's what you meant.

• Players only play positions you've rated them for, or the bench. Never anywhere else, not even to complete a defense. If a spot can't be filled within the rules, it stays open and tells you which player to add it to.
• Strength picks the defense. Contested positions go to your strongest available player, and each inning is solved as a whole rather than one spot at a time, so the tool won't paint itself into a corner and leave your best third baseman in left field.
• Starter is your optional depth chart. Open a player's ratings and click Starter next to a position to mark them the number one there. When two players are rated the same at that spot, the starter gets it and keeps it while they're on the field. It never outranks a better-rated player. Star a Developing player at short while a Strong one is available and the Strong one still plays there. One starter per position, and it doesn't apply to pitchers, who are ranked on the Pitching & Rest tab.
  Star a player and mark them Never sits and you've said “this is my shortstop, all game.” They'll be there every inning they aren't on the mound.
• The lineup type decides where people play, while bench fairness decides who plays. There are three. See The Three Lineup Types below.
• Bench time is shared evenly among everyone except Never-sits players, and nobody sits two innings back-to-back if it can be avoided.
  Most Competitive is the exception. Bench time there is uneven on purpose.
• Swapping a player after a fill patches the hole for you. Move someone off a position in an inning that's already complete, and the tool puts the best available player into the spot they left. It outlines the cell it changed and says what it did, with Undo in the message.
  It only steps in when the inning was full to begin with. If you're building a lineup by hand, nothing fills itself until you press a button. Undo reverts the tool's fix and leaves your own change standing. If nobody available is rated for the spot, it says so rather than filling it wrongly.
• Score and record are optional. After a game, enter the final score next to the pitch counts on the Pitching & Rest tab. Your record, run totals and a game log appear on the Season Fairness tab, which prints on one page and copies as text for the team chat. Skip it and nothing else changes. A game with no score isn't counted.
• Batting order runs continuously — everyone bats every time through, including innings they're on the bench.

Set this above the grid before you fill. Switching between them rebuilds the lineup on the spot, whatever state the grid is in, and fills any empty innings while it is there. Flick through all three and keep whichever you like. Changed cells are outlined and Undo is one click away. Your pitchers never move; those come from your Pitching Plan. An untouched grid is left alone, so changing the dropdown before you have built anything will not conjure a lineup.

• Most Competitive puts your best gloves at the hardest spots and leaves them there. The spare innings go to your strongest fielders. Bench time is deliberately uneven. Built for postseason and tournaments.
  Who sits comes down to who's hardest to replace, so your only real catcher stays on.
• Balanced is the one for the regular season. Competitive defense, players still move around, bench innings stay even.
  Strong players hold their own position most innings they're on the field. Where you've rated an outfielder for an infield spot, it looks to give him that turn.
• Developmental puts growth first. Players get innings at their Solid and Developing spots instead of their best one, and they move around the field. Good for scrimmages, assessments and early-season looks.
  One or two innings at their best position and the rest somewhere they're still learning, unless nobody else can cover a spot.

All three obey the same hard rules: nobody plays a spot you haven't rated them for, and pitching rest and the catcher rule are enforced. The type changes where people play, never whether the lineup is compliant.

Spring team, all-stars and fall ball can all live here at once. Use + Team in the top bar to add one, then switch between them with the dropdown beside it. Each team keeps its own roster, ratings, schedule, games and pitch history. Nothing crosses over, so a pitcher's rest days on one team never affect another.

Nothing is lost when you switch. Anything in progress, including an unsaved lineup, saves automatically first.

When a season finishes, Archive that team on the Roster tab under Your Teams. It leaves the switcher, so you are not scrolling past last spring every week, and everything in it is kept: players, games and pitch history. That matters when a parent asks about last spring. Restore it from the same table whenever you want.

This is an early pilot, so real feedback from real games is the most useful thing you can give me. If something is wrong, confusing or just annoying, tell me. Especially anything to do with pitch counts or playing time.

Please include the version shown in the top bar (v1.0) so I know which build you're on. If a green bar at the bottom of the screen says a newer version is available, tap it first — a refresh is often the whole fix.

Use Back Up My Data / Import Data to back up your work, move to a new computer or restore after a mishap. When it's time for a new season, Start a New Season on the Roster tab keeps your players and their ratings, and clears last season's games, pitch history and schedule. Reset This Team's Data beside it is for clearing a roster or starting a team over.
Rosters change between seasons and inside them. Add a player any time with Add Player; they appear in the next lineup you build. When one leaves, press Left the team on their row rather than Delete. It takes them out of lineups and off the list of available pitchers, and keeps their ratings and everything they threw. The same button says Rejoined if they come back. Delete is for a player entered by mistake: it erases their pitch records for good. Nothing is downloaded for you, so take a backup first if you want one.

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The Practice Plan tab builds a defensive practice off the same ratings you entered for lineups, and prints it on one page for the field. It's laid out like the game-day sheet on purpose: same header, same four date-and-time boxes, and station columns keyed in the same colors the lineup sheet uses.

1. Set the date and length. The date is what lets the tool check pitcher rest; length decides how many station rounds fit.
2. Tap anyone who's missing in Who's Here. Groups are built from who actually showed up.
3. Pick what you're working on. Two or three is plenty. Each choice sets the infield drill and the outfield drill for that round.
4. Optionally finish with a game. Off by default. Skip it if you'd rather spend the time on drills. Pick Custom to enter your own: give it a name and a sentence on how it works, and it prints on the sheet like any of the built-in ones.
5. Build the plan, then print or copy it as text.

How players get placed

• Three stations run at once: infield, outfield and bullpen. Groups rotate each round.
• Only players rated at P pitch, and only players rated at C catch. Nobody else can be placed in the bullpen at all.
• Infield and outfield do allow cross-training, because practice is where that belongs. A player working a spot they aren't rated for goes to 2B or RF, and the sheet labels the rep so you know it's development.
• Practice weights development above best-available defense. That's the opposite of the game-day dial. Repeating the same spot costs a player their next rep there, so they move around.
• A complete infield comes first. If a spot can't be filled, the sheet says whether that's a ratings gap or simply not enough bodies.

Bullpens are optional

• Switch it off any time you're not throwing. Plenty of practices don't include a pen, and younger divisions often don't throw them at all. With it off the plan runs two stations instead of three, the whole roster works infield and outfield, and nothing about pitching rest appears on the sheet.
• Every available pitcher throws 15 pitches to a rostered catcher, and catchers rotate so arms aren't always throwing to the same kid.
• A pitcher on required rest is held out automatically, and the sheet says what he can still do, usually catch or field.
• Practice pitches are never added to your pitch log. The planner reads your log; it never writes to it.
• Before you build, the bullpen card tells you how many arms actually fit. The clock, the number of players and the number of catchers all cap it.

Saving practices

Save to History after you build. The next plan steers players toward spots they didn't work, so variety builds across weeks instead of resetting every Tuesday. You can also load a past setup as a starting point.

Rest days are calculated from these.