Most league software is built around registration and payments, and treats the game itself as an afterthought: somebody types a final score into a form once everyone has gone home. bbstats.am is built the other way round. Everything starts at the scorer's console, so each point, foul, rebound and substitution becomes a live play-by-play, a complete box score and an updated standings table without anyone re-entering it.

That makes it a strong fit for leagues, youth programs and cups that publish statistics or stream their games, and a weaker fit for organizations whose hardest problem is booking courts or paying officials. This page is specific about both.

What basketball league software has to do

Six jobs come up in every league, whether it is an eight-team adult division or a youth program with twenty age groups. Here is how each one works on bbstats.am.

Live scoring built for basketball, not adapted to it

The scoring console is the centre of the product. A scorekeeper works from a browser on a laptop or tablet, either from a stat sheet layout or a court-tap mode that records shots by location. It tracks the period clock, personal and team fouls with bonus, timeouts by half, the possession arrow, and as many overtimes as the game needs.

Exactly one device holds the write lock for a game at a time, so two scorers at the same table cannot double-count a basket; a second person can still run the shot clock independently. Every accepted event broadcasts immediately, which means the public game page, the gym's TV display and the stream overlay all reflect the same state within about a second.

Box scores, standings and player statistics

Because the stats are a by-product of scoring the game rather than a separate data-entry job, they are finished the moment the game is. Each game produces a complete box score with per-quarter scoring, and those numbers roll straight into standings, league leaders, team pages and player profiles.

Box scores export to PDF for federation reporting, and any table can be embedded on a league's existing website through public embeds if you would rather keep your own front page.

A league site fans actually use

Every league gets its own site rather than a profile page inside somebody else's directory. Colours, fonts, logo and favicon are applied before first paint, so it looks like your league and not like a template with a logo dropped in the corner.

You start on a free subdomain and can attach your own domain with a single DNS record, with HTTPS issued automatically. The fan-facing interface is available in English, Russian and Armenian, and the site carries schedules, standings, rosters, news, announcements with RSVP, awards and partner pages.

Streaming overlays and gym displays

If you stream games, every game exposes an OBS-ready browser source with the live score, clock and fouls, themed to your league. An overlay designer handles layouts and positions with a live preview, so you are not editing CSS between games.

A separate full-screen scoreboard view drives a TV or projector in the gym from the same live data.

Import official FIBA box scores

Leagues that already produce official sheets do not have to score twice. Upload a FIBA or GENIUS box-score PDF and the importer reads the teams, rosters, starters, quarter scores and the full box score, reconciles every total, and creates a finished game with its statistics in place.

It is the fastest way to bring a season that was played on paper into the platform.

Where bbstats is not the right choice

Being basketball-specific and game-day-first means real gaps. If one of these is your main problem, a registration-first platform will serve you better:

• Facility and court booking — not built in.
• Officials assignment and payroll — not built in.
• Multi-sport organizations — bbstats is basketball only, by design.
• Offline scoring — the console reconnects and repairs itself after a network drop, but there is no paper-style offline game sheet.
• Score entry delegated to team volunteers — scoring is held by league staff and scorers today.

The comparison pages go through this feature by feature against LeagueApps, SportsPlus, LeagueRepublic, SportNinja and TeamLinkt, including where each of them is stronger. See the comparisons.

Pricing and getting started

You can create a league and score a real game without a card. Provisioning takes under a minute: pick a subdomain, and you get an admin account, a public site and a working scoring console.

After the trial, paid plans keep the league live; the current prices and limits are on the pricing page.