Voice basketball stat tracker

What is a voice basketball stat tracker?

It is a stat tracker you run by talking. You watch the game and call out plays such as a steal, an assist or a foul. The app works out which player did what and adds it to that player’s line in the box score. HoopReads is one of these apps. It is a basketball stat tracker first. Voice is how the stats go in.

How a spoken play becomes a stat

1. 1You call the play. Press record and say what happened, the way you would tell the bench. One play per call.
2. 2HoopReads finds the player. It matches the name, nickname or jersey number you said against your roster. A bare number that matches a jersey is read as that player, never as a count.
3. 3The play becomes stats. Each call turns into one or more stat changes, one per player per stat. A turnover with a foul on the same player is two changes from one sentence.
4. 4The box score updates. The new stats count right away. There is no approval step in the middle of the game.
5. 5You fix anything later. Tap a box score cell to see the call behind it. Correct it by voice or by editing the cell, and your correction always wins.

Real calls and what they record

Every example below is a case from the test set HoopReads runs against. The quote is what the statkeeper said. The lines under it are the stats it records. Slang works: “picks his pocket” is a steal and “swats it” is a block.

When HoopReads can't tell

If a name doesn’t match anyone on the roster, the play still shows up in the game feed with a one-tap roster picker. It stays out of the box score until you pick the player. If a call adds up to something no single play could do, HoopReads records nothing from it and flags it so you can say it again. It doesn’t guess.

What it records

Roster from a scorebook photo

Take a photo of the scorebook page. HoopReads reads the jersey numbers and names into a review list, and nothing saves until you confirm it. The photo itself is never stored.

What to know first

• HoopReads runs on iPhone. You record from the app during the game.
• You set up the roster first. HoopReads matches what you say to those players by name, nickname or jersey number.
• One play per call works best. Say what happened, not the running total.
• HoopReads keeps your team’s stats. It does not replace the official scorebook kept at the scorer’s table under your state association’s rules.

Coming from paper? The basketball scorebook app page covers what changes and what stays the same.