INSTRUCTIONS
How to use the PTPL Scorekeeper app
Admins and team captains manage teams and player rosters here. Each team can have up to 10 players, plus a designated captain and co-captain. Captains can add or remove players from their own team.
The away team enters their 5 players first. Enter your players in the order you want them to play, then click Confirm 5 Players. This may take a minute to enter depending on your WiFi speed, so be patient. If you click the button again, it may enter your players twice and list 10 players. Once you successfully enter your players, your choices should show up on the home team's app. There should be no need for both teams to enter the same names. After the home team enters their choices, it should show up on the away team's app. If you make a mistake entering your players after you hit Confirm 5 Players, you can hit Reset This Round. It should go back and allow you to enter your players again.
Admins create matches between two teams on a scheduled date. Each match is played in three rounds of five games. The away team puts their lineup up first in Round 1, then the home team counters; the home team puts up first in Round 2, and the away team puts up first in Round 3. When you pick your lineup, enter the players in the order you want them to play — that order is the one the opposing team matches up against. Match 5 (slot 5) allows a player to be repeated, and either of the last two games (slot 4 or slot 5) can be forfeited instead of naming a player if your team is short-handed. Repeating a player (a playback) is not allowed in the last three weeks of the regular season. Under Schedule you click on the upcoming date and you will see a list of team matches, just click on the match to start your match.
- All matches will be a straight 15 point scoring system.
- Players averages will be calculated by dividing the number of games won by the number of games played.
- A Table Run is pocketing all 7 of your balls in a row during ONE turn at the table, plus 8 ball. Must be executed during one turn at the Table. If executed immediately following your break, it is considered a Break and Run.
Rounds no longer have to be played one right after the other. As soon as a round's lineups are set, the next round can be picked, matched up, and scored at the same time — open the match and use the Round 2 Setup or Round 3 Setup panel (it shows the round's status), then tap Score Round Now to keep score as it is played. A round can even be finished before the round ahead of it is done. This keeps the night moving and makes matches faster to complete for the whole league; the match marks itself complete once all three rounds are scored.
You can put your team's schedule on your phone's calendar. Go to Schedule and find the ADD TO MY CALENDAR box on the right side of the page. Pick your team from the drop-down, then tap ADD SCHEDULE. A calendar file is saved to your phone with every remaining match your team still has to play — open that file and your phone will offer to add all of the dates at once (on an iPhone, tap the downloaded file and choose Add All; on Android, open it with Google Calendar or whichever calendar app you use). Each entry lists both teams playing and links back to the match in the app. If matches are added or rescheduled later, run it again and the new dates will be added.
Once a match is complete, the score sheet can be emailed to the league statistician. Open the completed match and use the Submit Score Sheet button to send a PDF summary of the final score and round-by-round results to mikeschatz1858@gmail.com.
All match results roll up into season-wide statistics. View player win rates, team standings, and achievement totals — including 8-Ball Breaks, Table Runs, and Break & Runs — across the full season.
When recording a game winner, you can mark the win type: 8-Ball Break (pocketing the 8 on the break), Table Run (clearing all your balls without the opponent taking a shot), or Break & Run (breaking and running the table). These feed the achievement leaderboards.
Newsletters, rules, bylaws, and contact information are available in the expandable bar below the navigation. Admins can upload PDF, JPG, or DOC files for rules and bylaws.