When we were in the development phase of Hoop Book we wanted to address the hassle of using the basketball scorebook at grade school games. If your grade school team is anything like the leagues that we played in and coach for you understand our frustration. In grades 3-8 there are rules that require every player to make an appearance in at least 2 quarters and no more than 3. Keeping track of this is a pretty difficult responsibility. Not only can a coach receive a technical for failing to follow this rule, the more daunting pressure comes from the errr…. “vocal” parents that won’t let you forget to put in their kid. No coach wants to deal with that so using Hoop Book is a great alternative to the normal basketball scorebook because it automatically keeps track of player appearances per quarter and it allows the scorekeeper to immediately see each players quarter total without worrying about mistakes or poor handwriting.
When a player is substituted into the game the corresponding quarter bubble automatically becomes illuminated (see picture). 
We think that this makes it easier that using the paper scorebook and having to fill in the appropriate quarter box by hand. Also if a player is on the bench and you want to see how many quarters a player has played you can quickly glance at their player square and to the right of his/her number will be 4 vertical boxes. The number of filled-in boxes represents the corresponding quarter that player appeared in. Also if you use the mouse to hover over the players number on the bench a pop-up window appears with that player’s point total, foul total, and number of quarters appeared in. (see picture)
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