Every Minute Played

Who played, and for how long.

A recorder you open in a browser on the touchline. It keeps track of who is on, who is resting, and how long each of them has had — so the answer at the end of the match is a record rather than a memory.

Open the recorder

Nothing to install. No account, no sign-up, no email address. It opens like any web page and works from then on without a signal.

What it does today

You tell it who turned up. You tap a player on the bench and tap where you want them, and it records the substitution. It shows you how long each player has been on the field this shift and this match, and which of them are below the team average.

At the whistle it saves the match as a file you keep. Every figure in it can be worked out again from the events that were recorded, so nothing is a number somebody typed in.

It is not a scoreboard and not a stats package. It records playing time. Whether your league requires equal minutes, a minimum, or nothing at all, it tells you what actually happened — it does not decide what should have.

What is coming

The hub: somewhere to put those match files so the totals add up across a season, so a parent can see their own child's minutes, and so a coach running two teams under two different rules gets an answer for each of them.

The hub does not exist yet. There is nothing to sign up for and nowhere to log in. When it is ready it will be announced here. Until then, the recorder works on its own and the files it produces are yours.

Before you use it in a real match

A match lives in your browser until you save it out. That means it survives closing the app, and it does not survive clearing your browsing data — some phones do that on their own when storage gets tight.

Save the file when the match ends. On a laptop you can pick the file at kickoff and it writes to it as you go.

How to record a match — the whole thing start to finish, in about five minutes of reading.

Who is making this

A rec-league coach who got tired of trying to remember whether the same two kids had sat out twice in a row. It is built for coaches doing their own substitutions with nobody helping, which is most of them.