Built by a coach for the Friday night before the game.
After years of coaching Little League Majors and Minors, I got tired of losing my Friday nights to the legal pad. Even Innings builds a lineup that's competitive, fair and checked against your league’s rules, and prints on one page.
- Get your Friday night back. An hour's work becomes about a minute. Pick your pitchers and the app does the rest.
- Knows your rulebook. Little League, Cal Ripken, Babe Ruth, PONY, USA Softball, USSSA and Perfect Game — every limit read from the governing body’s own rulebook and cited by regulation on the sheet you print. Not listed? Custom rules work too. Two teams? Each keeps its own.
- Built for softball, not adapted to it. Most softball bodies set no pitching limit at all — so Even Innings asks what your league requires, plans every lineup around it, flags anything that falls short, and prints on the sheet that the limits are yours, not the rulebook’s.
- Tracks the pitches with you. Log counts with the keypad; rest days and catcher limits are checked from them, and Plan Pitchers from My Ranks fills open innings with rested, eligible arms in one tap.
- Shows you who's getting shorted. Position fairness across the whole season.
- Plans your practice, too. Stations, bullpens and timings on one sheet you can hand an assistant coach.
- Nothing leaves your device. Rosters, ages and pitch counts stay in your browser — no account, no server. There is no database of children’s names to breach, because there is no database.
Animated illustration of a lineup grid filling itself in, inning by inning: ten players, nine positions, six innings.
Five steps, start to finish.
About fifteen minutes to set up, a few minutes a week after that, and your Friday nights back.
Prepare
Rate who can play where. About ten minutes, once.
Create
Pick a mode: competitive, balanced or developmental. The lineup builds itself.
One page for the dugout.
Review
Spot who's getting shorted before a parent does.
Plan practice
Who's at which station, who's throwing bullpen, how long each block runs.
Tested on more than 500,000 simulated lineups, and every release is checked before it reaches a coach.
Sounds like your Friday night? Get Even Innings
Three game strategies — or build your own lineup
- MOST COMPETITIVE Your best gloves at the hardest spots, holding them. Innings past your league’s minimum go to your strongest fielders. For All-Stars, tournaments and travel ball.
- BALANCED A competitive defense that still moves players around and keeps bench innings even. For most of the regular season.
- DEVELOPMENTAL A turn at their best spot, the rest somewhere they are still learning. For the early season and assessments.
Or build your own: empty the grid and set every inning yourself.
And this is what you carry.
Real sheets, printed from a real roster. Not mock-ups.
- Your league’s rules printed at the bottom — rest tiers, the consecutive-day rule, the catcher limits, with the regulation cited
- Who can pitch, and who owes rest — each arm with its last outing and whether its rest days have cleared, so a Saturday decision is already made before Friday night
- One page for the dugout — prints clean, folds into a back pocket, works with no signal at the field
- Every inning and every position — worked out with the pitching plan before you leave the house
- The practice plan prints the same way — run sheet, stations, and who’s pitching and catching in the bullpen. New to running stations? The free practice guide explains every drill, with diagrams.
See it in your league
Thirteen players, six innings, bench time spread evenly, and every one of them clearing Little League’s mandatory-play minimum without you counting. Hand the same page to the umpire — batting order, jersey number, player, starting position by number, home or visitor, and a line for your signature. Still using paper triplicate cards? The columns run in the same order, so copying it over is a job you can hand to an assistant.
Same tool, different rulebook. USSSA counts innings (where Little League counts pitches), so this sheet tracks innings and the rest days follow.
Hand it to an assistant and they run their station without asking you a single question. Every block timed, every player placed, every arm counted.
Softball is not an afterthought here. Its own rule set, its own limits, the same one-page sheet.
The short answers.
The four that decide it. The rest are on the FAQ page, and anything they miss, just ask — you’ll be writing to the person who built it.
What does it cost?
One coach: $49 a year. A league license is $25 a team per year, with a $300 minimum and $20 a team above 40 teams, plus any applicable sales tax. One purchase covers every coach in the league, in baseball and softball, and includes the January rulebook re-read. Your league already has Even Innings? You’re covered; ask your league for its address. The Pricing page has examples by league size.
Does it help with playing-time complaints?
It’s one of the reasons it exists. Even Innings spreads field and bench time across the whole season, not just one game, and Season Fairness shows every player’s innings at each position and on the bench. When a parent asks, you answer with a record instead of a memory.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes, it’s built for one. The lineup fits your screen, Fill, Save and Print stay pinned at the bottom, and pitch counts use the number pad. It prints from your phone, and on an iPad held upright you see every inning at once. Typing the roster the first time is easier on a bigger screen; after that, a thumb in the dugout is enough.
Does Even Innings keep me compliant?
No tool can, and it doesn’t pretend to. Even Innings is a planning aid, not a compliance system. It builds lineups that fit your league’s published limits and shows its work on the sheet. It can’t know what actually happened in a game, so your league’s official record and your own judgment still come first. Check your rulebook before it matters.
Get in before the season does.
Open now for every coach: baseball or softball, league or travel.
Buy for one coach — $49 a year
Never renews. Full refund within 14 days. Up to five of your devices. Covers the whole 2027 season, through February 29, 2028.
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- One licenseEvery coach in your league, both sports.
- No accountNo account in the app. Your roster stays on your own device.
- Any devicePhone, tablet or laptop. Prints from all three.