LeagueBucket

For adult basketball leagues

Scores posted before the gym lights go off.

Rec center, church gym or a weeknight men's league: the games are the easy part. LeagueBucket keeps the schedule, the scores and the standings so nobody has to text them around.

Enter a score and the standings are done. Every team gets a page with its games and its roster, and anyone can look without an account.

Every feature below works today, apart from the short list at the end. Items marked with a plan name are priced in that plan, and paid plans aren't on sale yet. Everything else is on the free plan.

Scores and standings

  • Enter the score, mark the result

    Type each team's points and mark who won. The standings update as soon as you save.

  • A table that keeps itself

    A new league ranks teams on 3 points for a win and 0 for a loss, with each team's record beside its points.

  • Your league's own pointsCommissioner plan

    Change what a win and a loss are worth, or rank by winning percentage instead.

  • Follow a game in progress

    Save the score as the game goes and set the quarter you're in. The schedule shows the running score and where the game is, like 3rd Quarter.

  • PlayoffsCommissioner plan

    End the season with a single-elimination bracket seeded from the standings, with byes for the top seeds when the field isn't a full bracket and a third-place game if you want one. Winners move on as you enter scores, and the winner of the final is the champion.

Rosters and the schedule

  • Positions, drawn on the court

    Give each player a position on the roster. Basketball has both guards, both forwards and center. The team's public page draws the court with each player where they play.

  • Postponed and cancelled games

    Cancel or postpone a game and it stays out of the standings until it's played. Anyone subscribed to the schedule sees it marked cancelled in their calendar rather than quietly disappearing.

Level in the standings

  • Ties broken by a rule, not an argument

    Out of the box a tie goes to most wins, then head-to-head record, then point differential, then most points scored, then a coin flip you record.

  • Your rules, if they differ

    Reorder the tiebreakers in Settings, or cap how much one game can add to differential, and the table says which rule placed each tied team.

What every league gets

  • Game reminders that send themselves

    Everyone with an email on file hears about each game ahead of time: who, when and where. Nobody has to remember to send it.

  • One message to the whole league

    Email the whole league or one team from one screen. Game reminders don't count toward the free plan's 50 messages a month.

  • Pages anyone can read

    The league, every team and every player get a public page. No app to install and no account needed to look.

  • The schedule in their own calendar

    Players can subscribe to their team's games from their phone's calendar. Move or cancel a game and the change shows up there the next time the calendar checks.

  • Ties settled by a rule you can see

    Pick the order of tiebreakers once, before anyone knows who they help. The standings say which rule placed each tied team.

  • Start from the spreadsheet you have

    Import teams, players and rosters from a .csv or .xlsx file instead of typing them in again.

  • DivisionsCommissioner plan

    Split the league into divisions, each with its own standings.

  • Next season in a few clicksCommissioner plan

    Start a new season with last season's divisions and each team's players already in place.

  • Your data, whenever you want it

    Download everything as CSV or JSON, on every plan, without asking anyone.

What it doesn't do yet

Listed here so you don't find out after you've set up your league. Items marked on the way are being built. The rest aren't scheduled: if your league needs one, tell us.

  • On the wayA scorekeeping screen built for phones, for entering scores during play
  • Points, rebounds, fouls and other player stats, and leaders pages.

Start a basketball league

The free plan covers one league, one season at a time and up to 8 teams. It isn't a trial and it doesn't expire, there's no card to enter, and there are no ads on any plan.