Fair playing time, set before the first pitch.
Enter your roster, choose your innings, and get a position chart that rotates every kid through the field and shares the bench evenly. No account, nothing to install, and nothing leaves your phone.
- Cost
- Free, no sign-up
- Sports
- Baseball + softball
- Output
- Printable chart
Names set the batting order. Tap a position to take it off a player; leave them all on if anyone can play anywhere.
Press generate. Your inning-by-inning position chart and batting order appear here, ready to print or paste into the team chat.
The fairness math is tedious by hand.
Every coach knows the rule: spread the innings, rotate the positions, do not bury a kid in right field for six straight innings. Doing it in a spreadsheet before a game, while the parents text you about carpool, is the part nobody enjoys. One late scratch and the whole grid falls apart.
It solves the grid in a second.
Give it the roster and the number of innings. It assigns nine positions every inning, sits the players who have sat the least, keeps anyone from sitting twice in a row, and rotates the field so everyone sees the infield and the outfield. Then it shows you, in plain words, exactly how fair the result is.
Four steps, no spreadsheet.
Enter your roster
Type each player's name. The list order is your batting order; the arrows move a hitter up or down.
Limit positions if you must
Everyone can play everywhere by default. Tap a position off a player who cannot cover it, like a kid who does not pitch.
Set innings and rules
Choose the inning count, then keep bench time even, block back-to-back sits, and mix infield with outfield.
Generate, then print
Get the chart instantly. Reshuffle for a different fair arrangement, then print it or paste it into the team chat.
Fair playing time, answered.
- What counts as fair playing time in youth baseball?
- Most rec and travel leagues expect every rostered player to get a roughly equal share of innings in the field and a fair turn at different positions, rather than parking the same kids on the bench or in right field all game. This tool spreads bench innings as evenly as the roster allows and rotates players through positions so no one is stuck in one spot.
- Is the lineup generator free?
- Yes. It is completely free, there is no sign-up, and it runs entirely in your browser. Nothing about your roster is uploaded or stored.
- How does it keep the bench fair?
- Each inning it sits the players who have sat the least so far, and when you turn on the no-back-to-back rule it avoids benching anyone two innings in a row. The summary above the chart tells you the exact spread, for example everyone sits one or two innings.
- Can I lock a player to one position, like pitcher or catcher?
- Turn a player's other positions off so only the ones they play are left on. The solver will only place them where they are eligible. If you make eligibility too tight to fill the field, the tool tells you which spot it could not cover.
- Does it set the batting order too?
- Yes. The order you list players in is the batting order, and it prints alongside the position chart. Use the up and down arrows to rearrange it.
- Will it work for softball?
- Yes. The nine standard positions and fair-rotation logic apply to youth baseball and softball the same way.
Score the game the same way you set it.
Bleacher Notes turns the lineup you just built into a voice-first scorebook. Set it once, then narrate the game out loud. Leave your email for an invite.