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Smart rules · Clubs & leagues

Say the rule. Watch it work.

Describe a scheduling rule the way you’d say it out loud, like “no team plays back-to-back road games.” Big Sports builds it, runs it against your real season, and shows you what it would flag before you accept anything.

Start with 21 days of Plus, free. No card up front.

You type “No team plays back-to-back road games”. Big Sports reads it as the “No back-to-back” rule (Rest & load): “All teams play at most 1 away game in a row”, checks it against 84 games, and shows that 2 games break it. Nothing is saved until you accept.

nothing saved until you accept

Smart rules

Describe it, then check its work.

The hard part of scheduling software was never the schedule. It was telling the thing what your league’s rules actually are, through a form built by someone who has never met your league. Now you can just say it.

  1. 01 · Say it

    Type the rule, not the form

    “No team plays back-to-back road games.” “Field 3 is dark after 6pm in October.” Say it the way you'd say it to another person. There's no form to find and no setting to learn the name of.

  2. 02 · It builds it

    It becomes a real rule

    Smart rules either recognises a rule type Big Sports already has and sets it up for you, or builds you a new one. Either way you get a proper rule: hard or soft, weighted, editable, and easy to switch off.

  3. 03 · It proves it

    Checked against your real season

    Before you accept anything, the rule runs against your actual games and shows you what it would flag and what it wouldn't. Nothing is saved until you say so.

Smart rules reading 'No team plays back-to-back road games' as the No back-to-back rule, under Rest & load, checked against 84 games with 2 flagged: Hawks and Storm each playing a second road game in a row.
Smart rules review · from the product

The model reads your sentence and writes the rule. It never writes the schedule. The engine does that, from your rules, so there’s a real season to check the rule against. Smart rules is on Plus, and every new account starts with 21 days of Plus free; Free covers the core rules, picked from a list.

How Smart rules works

Three more things it does.

A real engine.

Round-robins, group pools, single- and double-elimination brackets. Every rule you set is considered together, and no language model ever places a game. Drag a game where you want it and the grid tells you whether it fits before you let go.

See how

Survives the Saturday rainout.

Postpone a game and the engine suggests make-up slots that fit your rules, best first. Conservative by default: one rainout moves that one game, not five others. Locked games stay put.

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Every change is reversible.

Every edit is saved as its own step: who moved it, when, and exactly what changed. Undo it, redo it, or scroll back through the whole season. When the board asks what happened, you can show them.

See how

Built for the volunteer director.

Built for this today

Twenty-two teams, four fields, and one Saturday of setup standing between you and the season. You do this in the evenings, unpaid, and you’d like the evenings back.

22 teams4 fields1 Saturday of setup

Running tournaments or a conference? Pools and brackets work today. Tournament tools and multi-organization setups are still coming.

Tell us what you run

What everyone else sees

Your league, your page.

Publish the schedule and every parent, coach and referee gets a link that works on a phone. Put your own colors and type on it, and it reads as your league’s page, not someone else’s software with your fixtures inside it.

It follows the live schedule. Move a rained-out game and the page and the calendar feed both update, so nobody turns up at a field you already cleared.

Your colorsYour typeNo watermark on Plus

FreeNewsprint type · our colors

Plus · RiversideClassic type · their colors

Plus · NorthgateTechnical type · Android

Public schedule, three leagues · from the product

Every plan publishes a public page, including Free. Your own colors, your own type, and no Big Sports watermark come with Plus.

Pricing

What it costs.

One flat rate for the whole organization. Pay for the season, not for every team that signs up.

No transaction fees
$0
No per-team fees
$0
No per-game fees
$0
Billing cycle

Free

Trying it out or hobby use

$0/ mo
Start a season
Teams per season
10
Phases per season
1
Divisions per season
1
Venues
2

Plus

For real clubs and leagues

Recommended
$790/ yr12 months for the price of 10
Start a season
Teams per season
Unlimited
Phases per season
2
Divisions per season
1
Venues
Unlimited

Start with 21 days of Plus, free. No card up front.

Running multiple divisions? Talk to us.

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FAQ

Common questions.

What Big Sports is, what it isn’t, and what it costs. If your question isn’t here, the contact page has an address that reaches a person.

Ready when you are

Show up Saturday.

Big Sports handles the weekday: the rainout, the venue swap, the coach who can’t do 9 AM. You show up Saturday and watch the game.

  1. Day 1 to day 21 · Plus

    Build the whole season, publish a public schedule page, and run a rainout through it before you pay anything.

  2. Then · Free

    When the 21 days are up you drop to Free. Nothing is deleted, and you can upgrade whenever you’re ready.

Start a season

Start with 21 days of Plus, free. No card up front.