Live from the press box

SNAPCOUNT

Every snap. Every stat. Every Friday night.

One laptop in the press box runs the whole night. Coaches get a live field chart on the sideline, the broadcast gets real-time graphics, the stadium board gets the score — and the season totals are already banked before the team is off the field.

See it on the field What's in the suite
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01 — The press box

A full play in seven taps.

Play type, players involved, result, where the ball ended up on a drag-and-drop field, yards. Your spotter never types a stat line — they just describe what happened, and the engine does the rest.

  • Offense, defense and special teams all in the same flow — the buttons change with possession.
  • Penalties and two-point tries move the ball correctly without polluting anybody's stat line.
  • Undo on every play, and a passcode lock so a curious hand can't rewrite the third quarter.
  • Nothing to install. It is one HTML file. Open it and go.
Two student statisticians working in a high school press box overlooking a floodlit football field
Two students, one laptop, the whole night's data.
02 — Box Coach

The field, drive by drive.

Coaches open one address on an iPad. Every snap is drawn where it actually happened — the dot is the spot, the far end is where the play died. Green run, blue pass, gold touchdown, red for lost ground.

10.0.1.24:3000/boxcoach.html
Q2 · 01:04 10 – 7 2nd & 8 Mustangs Ball
Runs Passes Touchdowns Sacks Penalties Turnovers
OUR GOALTHEIR GOAL1010202030304040505040403030202010101st & 10 from our 25 → +6 yds2nd & 4 from our 31 → +14 yds1st & 10 from our 45 → +3 yds2nd & 7 from our 48 → +21 yds1st & 10 from their 31 → +4 yds2nd & 6 from their 27 → +27 yds TOUCHDOWN2nd & 6 from their 27 → +27 yds TOUCHDOWN1st & 10 from our 29 → +2 yds2nd & 8 from our 31 → +0 ydsPenalty: 0 yds on off3rd & 8 from our 21 → +0 ydsTurnover1st & 10 from our 48 → +8 yds2nd & 2 from their 44 → +22 yds1st & 10 from their 22 → +1 yds2nd & 9 from their 21 → -7 yds×1st & 10 from our 32 → +5 yds2nd & 5 from our 37 → +7 yds1st & 10 from our 44 → +2 yds
Run Pass Touchdown Lost yards Penalty Turnover
Next call · 2nd & 8 at our 46
Throw it
Second and 8. Runs 3.9 a carry, throws 10.5 a throw. Second down has been going for 12 a play.
Q1Touchdownour 25675 yds
Q1Defensive Seriesour 383—
Q1Turnoverour 2932 yds
Q2Defensive Seriesour 342—
Q2Field Goalour 48524 yds
Q2Defensive Seriesour 361—
Q2In Progressour 32314 yds

The throw game is the edge

Throws are going for 10.5 against 3.9 on the ground, and are getting the down 63% of the time.

3 explosive plays

Plays of 15 yards or more. They are 19% of your snaps and usually the difference in the score.

The defence is living in the backfield

2 plays behind the line from 6 defensive snaps logged.

This is not a mock-up. The field above, the suggested call and the drive list were rendered by the product's own code from a real 24-play half — 16 offensive snaps, 8 runs averaging 3.9, 8 throws averaging 10.5. Change the game and every word of it changes.
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What's working

Run against pass, broken down by down and by area of the field. Third-down conversion, explosive plays, plays that lost ground, and who is actually producing.

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The next call

A suggestion for the down, distance and field position on the board right now, with the reasoning shown. Under six snaps it says so instead of guessing.

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Built for a thumb

Touch-sized controls, a Whole Game / 2nd Half / This Drive filter, and no pinching. It refreshes itself — nothing to press.

Two coaches in headsets reviewing an analytics tablet on the sideline at night
Sideline, third quarter. The numbers are already on the tablet.
03 — On the sideline

A second opinion from the numbers.

Box Coach knows what has worked tonight. It does not know your game plan, your personnel, or what you saw on film — so it never pretends to. Every claim it makes traces back to a snap your spotter logged.

  • It says when it doesn't know. Fewer than six offensive snaps and it tells you that, rather than reading noise.
  • It knows whose ball it is. On defense it stops suggesting offensive plays and reads out the front seven instead.
  • Every insight is traceable — the plays behind it are one tab away.
04 — Broadcast & scoreboard

It talks to the gear you already own.

The server publishes plain CSV and JSON on your own network. Point vMix — or anything that reads a URL — straight at it. Column positions never move between versions, so a mapping you built last season still works.

  • Pulls from the scoreboard. Clock, quarter, score, down, distance and possession arrive on their own, about four times a second.
  • Possession drives the tracker. When the board flips to the visitors, the stat entry flips to defense automatically.
  • Quarter-by-quarter linescore worked out by watching the score change — no extra work for the board operator.
  • Jersey-indexed lookups so a third-party graphics package can grab row 24 and actually get number 24.
A student operator running a live sports broadcast switcher in a small control room
Graphics update themselves. Nobody retypes a score.
05 — Migration

Bring the rest of your season with you.

You will not run the press box for every game — away trips happen, and somebody else keeps the book. Hand SnapCount the PDF they send and it reads the box score itself.

STEP 01

Drop in the PDF

The stat sheet from your existing service, exactly as it arrives. No export step, no spreadsheet, no retyping.

STEP 02

It reads the box score

Rushing, passing, receiving, kicking, returns and the full defensive table — mapped onto the same stat columns your graphics already use.

STEP 03

You check the matches

Every player it found, with the stats it read, and a drop-down on each row. Two brothers with one surname never get merged.

STEP 04

Banked to the season

One button. Season totals only — the game on screen is untouched. Import the same sheet twice and it warns you.

Reading happens on your own machine. No upload, no account, no service to sign up for — the PDF never leaves the building.
Friday night doesn't wait for a spreadsheet. Neither should your stats.
06 — The suite

Five screens, one laptop.

Everyone on the same data at the same moment. Share one link and the whole staff picks the view they need.

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Stat Tracker

The press box tool. Play-by-play entry, roster, season totals, the away-game import and the passcode lock.

one HTML file
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Box Coach

The field chart, what's working, the next call and every drive — built for an iPad on the sideline.

/boxcoach.html
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Coach View

Pick any player and watch their line update live. Filter by offense, defense or special teams, game or season.

/coach
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Commentator Board

Leaders in passing, rushing, receiving, all-purpose, tackles, sacks, takeaways and scoring — ready to read on air.

/commentator
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Stadium Big Screen

The public-facing board. Score, clock, situation and the last play, sized for the back row.

/public
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Broadcast Feeds

Seven CSV feeds and six JSON endpoints on your own network, with column positions that never move.

vMix ready
07 — Built to be trusted

It runs when the Wi-Fi doesn't.

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Nothing leaves the building

No cloud account, no subscription, no student data uploaded anywhere. The server runs on your laptop and speaks only to your own network.

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Offline by design

The tracker, the PDF reader and every viewer page work with the internet unplugged. Press box Wi-Fi is not a dependency.

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1,166 automated checks

Every stat rule, every CSV column, every field coordinate is covered by tests that run before a release ships.

Ready for Friday

Put the whole night on one screen.

Unzip it, double-click the server, open the tracker. You can be logging plays in about five minutes — and the coaches can watch from the sideline on the first drive.

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