Questions coaches ask
The things worth knowing before you try it. Anything else, just ask. You will be writing to the person who built it.
The basics
What is Even Innings?
Even Innings is a lineup and practice-plan generator for youth baseball and softball coaches, and the game lineup is its main job. You pick your pitchers; it builds each game’s batting order and fielding rotation, keeps playing time fair across the whole season, respects your league’s pitching rules, and prints on one page you can carry to the field. It also builds timed practice plans, and the Practice Guide and printable lineup cards on this site are free for any coach.
Is Even Innings a lineup generator?
Yes, and one that remembers your season. Most lineup generators build one game at a time and forget it. Even Innings builds each game’s batting order and fielding rotation from your roster and your league’s rules, then keeps track across the season. Who has sat, who has played where, and who is rested to pitch all carry forward, so every lineup is fair over the whole season, not just tonight. Tap Fill, check it, and print one page for the dugout.
How does it work?
Add your roster and tap which positions each player can handle. Before each game, open the Lineup tab. If you’ve added your schedule, tap Start This Game: it carries over your batting order, marks everyone as playing and takes you to pitchers. No schedule? Just enter the date and opponent at the top. Pick your pitchers, or tap Plan Pitchers from My Ranks for rested, eligible arms, then press Fill. Most coaches are set up in about fifteen minutes and building lineups in about one.
Who is it for?
For head coaches and managers of baseball and softball players ages 7 through adult, on rec, All-Stars, tournament and travel teams. Younger divisions get even innings and mandatory play handled without counting. Older and competitive teams get the strongest defense available, the batting order left to the coach, and a pitching check for any date, so you know on Wednesday which arms are rested for Saturday.
Why use it?
Building a genuinely fair lineup by hand takes real time. Coaches who have used it put it at 20 to 60 minutes a game on a legal pad, and that is with experience. Even Innings does it in about a minute and spreads playing time across the season rather than one game.
Do I need to install anything?
No. It opens in your browser on a phone, tablet or laptop. Nothing to download, nothing to update, no app store.
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 it work at a field with no signal?
Yes, once it’s open. Open Even Innings before you leave home and leave it open: Fill, swaps, the pitching tab and saving all keep working with no connection. It can’t open from scratch without a signal, so don’t close it or pull down to refresh at the field. A phone short on memory can reload it on its own, so print the lineup or save it as a PDF before you go. Your roster is never lost; it’s all there when the signal comes back.
Can I import my roster from GameChanger?
Not directly, but there’s a shortcut once your team has played. On a computer, sign in at web.gc.com, pick your team, open Stats and press Export Stats for a CSV. Copy its column of player names and paste it into Bulk Add Players on the Roster tab. You have to be listed as Staff on the team to see the button, and a brand-new team won’t have much in the export yet. Or just type them: one name per line, about two minutes for fourteen, and only once.
Is there a printable lineup card or practice plan?
Yes, all free to print and share (leagues may hand them to every coach): one-page lineup cards for baseball and softball and a 90-minute practice plan, on the Free Printables page. They work with a pencil. Even Innings does the same jobs for you and prints its own sheet for the dugout.
One coach, one license
How do I buy it for myself?
On the Pricing page: $49 a year, by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Your link appears on screen as soon as you pay, with a copy by email. No account or password.
When does my license year end?
Licenses run March through February and never renew on their own. Buy now and it covers the whole 2027 season, through February 29, 2028.
Can I try it first?
The 14-day refund is your trial. If it isn’t for you, email jeff@eveninnings.com within 14 days for a full refund. Your link stops working once it’s refunded.
How many devices can I use?
Up to five of your own. New phone? Use Reset my devices at coach.eveninnings.com/welcome.
I lost my link. What now?
Use Resend my link at coach.eveninnings.com/welcome. It goes only to the email you bought with.
Where everything lives
Where is my data?
On your device, in your own browser. Nowhere else. Rosters, ages and pitch counts are never uploaded, because there’s no server to upload them to and no account to attach them to.
Is my players’ information safe?
There is no database of children’s names to breach, because there’s no database. Nothing about your team ever leaves the device you’re working on.
Do you sell my data, or show ads?
No, and no. Your roster never reaches me, so there’s nothing to sell, and there are no ads in the app or on the sheet you print. The app’s ⋯ menu has one link to our own team store, and following it is up to you.
What if you stop working on Even Innings?
What you’ve saved is yours: your rosters stay on your device and a backup opens without me. Your link works through the end of your license year.
What happens if I get a new device?
Tap Back Up Now in the ⋯ menu on the old device (on a phone, Back Up to Files… lets you AirDrop or email the file), then Import a Backup on the new one. It moves everything: teams, rosters, saved games and pitch counts. The same trick moves your season between a laptop and a phone. If the other device already has teams, it can add yours alongside them or update just that team. Two edited copies of one team can’t be combined, so make changes on one device at a time.
Should I be backing up?
Yes, and it takes one tap. Browsers can clear stored data, particularly iPhones, which clear a site’s data after about a week of not opening it. Back up when you set up your roster and you’re covered. When a backup is due, the line under the header turns red and says so (for example, “3 saved games, no copy yet”): tap Back Up Now once.
On an iPhone, should I add it to my home screen?
Yes. Open the link in Safari, tap share, then Add to Home Screen. Safari clears a website’s stored data after about seven days without a visit, and your season lives in that storage — so a quiet stretch between games is when a tab can come back empty. Opened from the home screen it counts as its own app, and that timer does not apply. It also opens full-screen and loads faster. Keep taking backups anyway. On Android and laptops this is optional.
Rules and rulebooks
Which leagues and rulebooks does it know?
Little League, Cal Ripken, Babe Ruth, PONY, USA Softball, USSSA and Perfect Game. Baseball and softball, regular season and All-Stars. Every limit is read from the governing body’s own current rulebook and cited by regulation on the sheet you print — and where a body sets no pitching limit at all, which is the norm in softball, Even Innings asks what your league requires and checks every lineup against that instead.
What if my league is not listed?
You’re still covered. Choose Custom and enter your league’s own limits: innings or pitches per game, per day and per week, and the rest a pitcher owes after a long outing. Even Innings treats your limits exactly like the built-in rulebooks: it checks every lineup and pitching plan against them and flags anything that doesn’t fit. Playing rules, like 10 in the field or the sit order, are set separately, under Advanced (the next answer).
Can it follow my league’s own playing rules?
Yes. Under Choose Your League, open Advanced and turn on your league’s own rules. Then set what your league uses: 9 or 10 players in the field, the most innings in a row on the mound, the least innings in the field per game, the infield innings each player must get, the most outfield innings in a row, and whether nobody sits a second inning until everyone has sat one. Every lineup follows them, and your printed sheet lists them under “Your league.” Pitching limits can be made stricter than the rulebook, never looser.
How is Even Innings tested?
On the field first. Volunteer coaches in a local league used it in real games in fall 2026, and their feedback shaped the updates. Behind that, automated tests play through simulated seasons across many rosters, rulebooks and all three strategies, checking the lineups for problems such as an empty position, uneven bench time or a pitcher who should be resting. More than 500,000 simulated lineups have been built and checked so far, and every release passes those tests before it reaches a coach. Testing finds problems; your rulebook and your judgment still come first.
How do I know the pitching limits are right?
Because a human read the rulebook and the printed sheet tells you which one. The foot of your game sheet cites the regulation and the date it was checked, so you can hold the paper next to your own book. That check is repeated every year before the season starts. Every rules page shows the same citations, for example the Little League pitch count rules.
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.
What about All-Stars and tournaments?
Handled, and the rules genuinely change — not the same way in every organization. Tell it you’re in All-Stars or tournament play and it applies that book's tournament rules. Little League All-Stars requires a continuous batting order and drops the defensive playing-time minimum. USSSA and Perfect Game have you declare a line-up before the first pitch instead. Babe Ruth lets you add a tenth batter as an Extra Player in District, State and Regional play. Pitching windows change too, and they change differently in each book.
Does it track pitch counts?
Yes. Log what each pitcher threw and Even Innings carries the rest days forward, warns you when an arm isn’t eligible, and prints who is available today and how much they have left.
What if the rules change next year?
They do, most years, and a rules tool is only as good as its most recent reading. Every rule set is re-read against the newest published book annually, before the season, and an updated build ships before coaches are assigned.
Using it week to week
What happens when a player does not show up?
Tap Someone Didn’t Show? on the Lineup tab, uncheck who is missing and press Rebuild Without Them. The field re-solves around who is there with your pitching limits still intact, and you get a new sheet in about a minute.
What if a game is rained out or moved?
Moved to a make-up date? Open the saved game, change its date and tap Move the [old date] Game to This Date Instead: the lineup goes with it, the schedule marks the old date “Moved to” the new one, and Start Next Game skips the rained-out date. Canceled outright? Tap Delete This Game. Only that game goes, and your roster, other games and pitch counts stay. Games with no lineup built never count. It’s all in the Guide, under Game Day.
Can I run more than one team?
Yes, as many as you like, at the same time. Add one with Add a Team in the ⋯ menu and the app walks it through setup, one step at a time. Each team keeps its own roster, its own saved games and its own rulebook, so a Little League team and a travel team never borrow each other’s limits.
Can I coach different age groups or leagues at once?
Yes. Every team carries its own organization, division and season type. Switch between them from the top of the screen and nothing crosses over.
How many players can it handle?
Comfortably more than a youth roster needs. The printed sheet fits one page for up to 21 batters under every rule set in the app, and 22 under most.
Can I hand the printed sheet to the umpire?
Yes, that is exactly what it’s built for. It reads like a standard lineup card: batting order, jersey number, player, starting position by number, home or visitor, and a signature line. If your league still uses a paper triplicate card, the columns run in the same order.
What happens when the season ends?
Tap Start a New Season on the Roster tab. It keeps your players and their ratings, clears last season’s games and pitch history, and asks before it clears the schedule. Or archive the team to keep it exactly as it was, so you can still answer a question about last spring.
Can my assistant coach use it?
On paper, yes: print the lineup or practice plan and hand it over. To use the app, an assistant needs their own license, or your league can cover every coach. Two licensed coaches can share a team by sending a backup file (Import a Backup).
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.
Can it plan practices too?
Yes. Tell it how long you have and what you want to work on, and it produces a timed practice plan with warm-up, stations, water breaks and team situations, on one page you can hand to an assistant.
The people part
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.
Is there Even Innings gear?
Yes. Tees, hoodies, caps and a few accessories for coaches and families are in the Even Innings team store. You never need to buy anything to use the app.
Who built this?
Jeff Schwartz, a Little League coach in Los Angeles and an educator of nearly twenty years. It started as a way to stop losing Friday nights to a legal pad.
How do I get help?
Email jeff@eveninnings.com, or tap Report a Problem in the app’s ⋯ menu; it fills in your version for you. You’re writing to the person who built it.
Is Even Innings finished?
Yes. It’s ready for a full season today. It also keeps improving: every rulebook is re-read each year, and updates ship through the season.