Game day

1. Log in with your team account, pick the game, and tap P1 when the puck drops. Switch to P2, P3 and OT as the game goes.
2. Choose Team or Player. Team mode counts the whole game. Player mode follows one skater: pick her number and tap what she does. Most parents do best tracking one thing: their own player, or just the team's shots.
3. Tap as it happens. Each tap adds one. Slipped? Undo last tap. You do not have to catch everything. A clean partial count is worth more than a rushed guess.
4. It saves itself. Taps are stored on your phone and sent when you have signal. Hit Save now at the end of each period.

Add it to your home screen: iPhone Share, then Add to Home Screen. Android menu, then Install app. A true widget needs a store app, so this opens like an app instead.

These follow the same ideas public hockey analytics trackers use (shot attempts, scoring chances, the passing project, zone entries), simplified for the stands.

Same puck, different questions. Pick the button that answers the question, and never tap one play in two places.

Worked example. Violet gets the puck at the point and passes to Claire, who passes to Emma in the slot. Emma shoots, the goalie stops it. Then Emma's rebound is blocked.

• Shots on net: 1 (the first shot). Missed or blocked: 1 (the rebound). Shot attempts: 2.
• Passes: Violet to Claire and Claire to Emma were both completed, so 2 completed of 2 attempts.
• Claire's pass is the 1st pass before the shot. Violet's is the 2nd.
• Scoring chance: Emma shot from the slot, so tap Scoring chance once for the team or for her.

Not sure which one it was? Skip it. A missed tap is fine, a guess is not.

Every tracker gets their own private rating that builds over time. Nobody sees it, not other parents and not on any page. It only does two quiet jobs: decide how much your counts weigh next to everyone else's, and trigger the friendly tips you may see.

1. Everyone starts in the middle. A brand-new tracker has a typical weight. You are not penalized for being new.
2. Each approved game is a check-in. After each game we compare your totals with the official GameSheet numbers (goals, goals against, penalties) and, when other parents tracked too, with the group's middle value. Close counts raise your rating, far-off counts lower it a little. One tracker is enough to count.
3. Recent games count most. Each game moves your rating about 40% of the way toward that game's result. One rough night cannot sink you and one lucky game cannot inflate you.
4. Your weight follows your rating. Steady trackers count up to about 2 to 3 times as much as a very unsteady one, so the published numbers lean on the people who count carefully. Nobody is ever zeroed out.
5. We learn your tendency. After 3 scored games, if you usually count a bit high or a bit low, your numbers get nudged back toward the group automatically.
6. Tips. If your total for something is far from the group, you get a short private tip (for example, check that missed shots are not going under shots on goal).

We only score stats with real action (4 or more). GameSheet is the source of truth: where it has an official number, that is what gets published, and your counts are checked against it. The head coach can also correct any number that looks off. Trust is for data quality, never for judging anyone. It is never used to rank or compare kids.

1. You track. Taps sync from your phone during the game. Nothing you tap is public while the game is on or right after.
2. We pool the counts. Everyone's totals are combined into the group's middle value, weighted by each tracker's private trust. Partial trackers who left early are set aside.
3. Coach White reviews. The head coach looks at the pooled numbers, how well each tracker agreed with the group (without names), and compares goals and assists with GameSheet. GameSheet always wins on goals and assists.
4. You have 5 hours. After the game ends you can keep sending taps for 5 hours. Then entry closes, and the system builds the best estimate from everyone's numbers (the middle value, with steadier trackers counting a little more).
5. He closes it out, or holds it. Only approved games appear on the Numbers page. If numbers look off, he can leave the game unpublished or unpublish it later.
6. Approval locks the game. Approving publishes a final copy, closes the game to new taps, and is when trust ratings update. So late edits cannot change what was approved.

Until a game is approved, the Numbers page shows only that it is waiting for coach approval. Keep tracking and syncing during the game. Coach White approves games after he has checked them.

Score sheets give us goals, assists, power plays, penalties and the clock. Parents fill in the rest: shots, chances, passing and zone play. Together that is much closer to what pro teams track. See the results on the Numbers page.

• Sit where you can see the whole ice if you can: center ice, a few rows up.
• Count only what you clearly saw. Skip it if you are not sure. A missed tap is fine, a guess is not.
• Pick one job: team shots, one player, or just zone entries. Fewer buttons, better numbers.
• Be fair to both teams. The same rules apply for our shots and theirs.
• Do not tap during the national anthem or timeouts, and enjoy the game too.

Tracking needs your team login. Player stats follow the same name consent rules as the rest of the site: if a parent said no to names, that player's numbers are not shown. Tracked stats are unofficial, labelled that way, and used for fun and coaching, never to rank or compare kids against each other. See the privacy notice.