Parents Watching the Score Live, Without Seeing Other Kids' Stats

Not every parent can be at every match. Tournaments start at eight in the morning two hours from home, and families have more than one child. The parents who are there spend half the day being asked for the score.

SpikeLedger gives parents a live view of the match. It was built around one rule: a parent sees their own child and nobody else's.

How a parent gets access

Access is given by the coach, one family at a time.

1. 1On the roster page the coach creates a short code for one player.
2. 2The coach gives that code to the player's parent or guardian.
3. 3The parent creates a free parent account and enters the code.

There is no team-wide link to forward. The coach can see every linked parent in the team's settings, and can remove a parent or cancel an unused code at any time.

What a parent sees during a match

• The score, set by set.
• Their own child's numbers for the match, updating within a second or two of each tap by the scorer.
• Whether their child is on the court, if the coach has left that switched on.

After the match the same page shows their child's season: the Bank Account rating, the trend across tournaments, focus areas with a drill for each, and any report cards.

For context, a parent sees team averages. A number means little without something to compare it with, and a team average does that without pointing at any other child.

What a parent never sees

• Another player's name or numbers.
• The roster or the lineup.
• A ranking of players.
• Playing time totals.

That last one is deliberate. Minutes on court is the number most likely to start an argument in a car park, and it says nothing about how a player performed. It is not shown.

What the coach controls

The coach can pause the parent view for the whole team with one switch, without unlinking anyone. The coach can also hide whether a child is on or off the court, while still showing the score and the child's numbers. And the coach can turn off the alert parents get when a match starts.

A heads-up when the match starts

Tournament schedules slip. A parent who has added SpikeLedger to their phone's home screen can turn on an alert for the moment their child's match starts. Nobody has to send a message to the group.

If the gym Wi-Fi drops

The scorer's taps are saved on the scorer's phone and sent when the signal returns. A parent's page catches up at that moment. Nothing is lost, it just arrives late.

Reading the numbers

A live view is only useful if the numbers mean something to the person reading them. What every volleyball parent should know about stats explains passing grades, hitting efficiency and the Bank Account in plain terms. How a child's information is kept private is covered in how SpikeLedger protects young athletes' privacy.