Run the derby. Everyone watches the leaderboard.
Set the rounds and the cut line, then score every homer with a single tap from the fence. Standings, swing-offs, and the champion sort themselves out on a public leaderboard the whole park can refresh, grandparents included.
- Cost
- Free to run
- Scoring
- One tap per homer
- Format
- Swings or outs
The leaderboard is the show.
A derby run off a clipboard has one person who knows the score. On Bleacher Notes every tap lands on a public leaderboard: the kid on deck checks where they stand, the dugout argues about the cut line, and the grandparents at home watch the swing-off live. One link, any phone browser, no app required.
Set it up between batting practice and first swing.
Set the rules once.
Create a derby the same way you create a tournament. Pick the rounds, swings or outs per round, and how the field cuts down: eight to four to two to a champion. Add hitters from your teams or just type names.
One tap per homer.
Whoever is standing at the fence scores from their phone: a big +HR pad, one tap per ball over the wall, long-press to undo the over-eager one. No scorebook, no clipboard math.
The cut line runs itself.
Standings recompute on every swing. Ties for the last advancing spot get a swing-off automatically, and the champion is crowned the moment the last round ends.
Your derby, your rules.
Every league runs its derby a little differently. Set the format once when you create the event; the scoring screen and the leaderboard follow your rules from there.
- Rounds3, or your call
- As many rounds as the night needs. The final is just the last round.
- Swings or outs10 swings · 7 outs
- Count swings per hitter, or run MLB-style outs where only a miss counts against you.
- Cut line8 → 4 → 2
- Set how many survive each round. Small field? It collapses to a straight final on its own.
- Tiebreakers3-swing swing-off
- Tied for the last advancing spot? The derby queues a swing-off between exactly those hitters.
- Longest balltracked in feet
- Optionally record the longest homer of the night. Bragging rights only; it never decides advancement.
- Side eventattach to a tournament
- Run it standalone, or attach it to your tournament and it shows up on the event's public page.
Host a derby this season.
Create it like a tournament, hand the field one link, and let the leaderboard do the talking. Free to run, every time.