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 compliant, and prints on one page.
- Get your Friday night back. An hour's work becomes about a minute. Pick your pitchers and the tool 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, enforces it everywhere, and prints on the sheet that the limits are yours, not the rulebook’s.
- Tracks the pitches with you. Rest days and catcher limits checked automatically from the counts you log.
- 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.
Ten minutes to set up. A few minutes a week after that. Optimized game plans and hours of your time 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.
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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 it has cleared the ladder, 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?
Free through the beta this fall. Paid league licensing opens for the 2027 spring season, and one purchase covers every coach in the league.
Does it help with playing-time complaints?
That is one of the reasons it exists. Even Innings spreads position and bench time across the season, not just one game, and the Season Fairness page shows each player’s innings by position, and what share of their field time each one held. You get to answer with a record instead of a memory.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes, and it prints from a phone. Setting up your roster the first time is easier on a bigger screen because there is a lot of typing, but everything after that works comfortably with a thumb in a dugout.
Does Even Innings keep me compliant?
It is a planning aid, not a compliance system. It helps you build a lineup that fits your league’s published limits, and it shows its work. It cannot know what actually happened in a game and it is not a substitute for your league’s official record or your own judgment. Always confirm against your own rulebook before it matters.
Get in before the season does.
Early access opens to small batches of coaches through the fall. Founding coaches get to help shape what gets built next.
- FreeFree through the beta.
- No accountNo profile, no email required. Open it and start.
- Any devicePhone, tablet or laptop. Prints from all three.