Why directors pickTazSchedule.
Build the court grid, then hand it off. Coaches claim a team from one link, site directors enter scores on a phone, and the assignor places refs — while families open one event page with no account.
- $49 per event, flat
- No credits per team
- Vendor pages checked 2026-10-22
TazSchedule
Same price for 20 teams or 200
$49
per event · or $49/mo
The court grid is ours. So is the handoff.
$49/mo or $399/yr, or $49 once. Registration, tickets, and the shop are the Suite when you want them.
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The court grid is the product
Import the registration export you already have, generate against the courts you uploaded, then Pack or Hail Mary whatever is left. Find a slot ranks the open courts for a leftover, and every bulk tool snapshots first so you can revert. Directors who have run Exposure and Bracket Team still rewrite those grids by hand. This one is built to survive Friday night.
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The coach portal is one link
Publish it and send it. The coach creates a login, claims the team, accepts the waiver, and enters staff, roster, and league conflicts. Conflicts close once a schedule exists. Doubleheader requests stay with the director. No club website and no app to install.
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A portal for the assignor
The officials portal gives the assignor a login, filters for week, day, venue, and court, sport-aware ref slots, a printable sheet, and a worked mark for pay. No admin seat.
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No one else has this
No one else has fully functioning scheduling, best-in-class electronic ticketing, registration, and a merchandise store all in one: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart. TazForm handles registration. TazTix is a full electronic ticketing system — not a QR-code generator. TazCart is the shop for tournament apparel and merch. Scheduling is TazSchedule. Stay standalone if you already collect registrations elsewhere.
Where the court grid is ours
Brackets, drive time, postpone and forfeit, and family calendars now match the vendors who documented them. Automatic snapshots and a rebuild that keeps played weeks go past LeagueLobster.
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| Capability | TazSchedule | Tourney Machine | LeagueApps | SportsEngine | LeagueLobster | Bracket Team | Exposure |
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| Import from registration exports and spreadsheetsTazSchedule reads team name, division, pool, coaches, conflict dates, linked teams, and venue priorities from the export you already have. Late entries still add by hand. | Included | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on |
| Constraint-aware generateOn-the-hour blocks on the days and courts you uploaded — weekday or weekend — plus games-per-team, rematch caps, coach conflicts, venue priorities, and U12 hours (9:00 AM–7:00 PM) in one pass. | Included | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on |
| Venue / court grids (split days, noon closures)Upload a court workbook with split days and mid-day closures, expanded into on-the-hour slots. Append newly available time without wiping placed games. | Included | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on |
| Fill remaining / Hail Mary leftover repairPlace leftovers into open courts, one-hop moves, two-step chains, and (in leagues) same-pool opponent swaps — plus a labeled cross-pool game when a team is still short — without rebuilding the slate you already confirmed or touching a week already played. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Double-elimination, third-place game, hand-edited bracketsPool play feeds single or double-elimination (byes collapsed, optional if-necessary grand final) with an optional third-place game. Pin either side of any knockout game by hand, swap it, or hand it back to auto-advance. | Included | Included | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Included | Partial or add-on | Included |
| Doubleheader dates, rest of the slate as singlesA director can give a team a count of doubleheader dates. The rest of its required games are singles, and the other weekends stay empty. The game total does not change. Coaches cannot request this from the portal. | Included | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on |
| Drive time between venuesSet travel minutes between venue areas per league. Generate and repair keep a coach's teams, and a team's same-day doubleheader, from tipping before the drive is possible. | Included | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Mid-season rebuild that keeps played weeksRegenerate a league from any week. Earlier weeks, finals, and pinned games stay exactly where they are and still count toward games-per-team, rematch caps, and home/away. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Postponed, cancelled, forfeit, and move a whole dayMark a game postponed, cancelled, or forfeit (sport-aware forfeit score), see it on the grid card and the cancelled-games panel, and move or postpone an entire day of games in one step. | Included | Partial or add-on | Included | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on |
| Automatic snapshot and one-click revertGenerate, Pack, Hail Mary, Optimize, scoped rebuilds, clears, and day moves each save the slate first. Ten snapshots are kept; revert is one click. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Published monthly and annual price$49/mo or $399/yr (or $49 one-time), unlimited teams and staff. Payment only to export. No quote, no per-team credits, and no take-rate on registrations. Suite bundles on Monthly and Annual. | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on | Partial or add-on |
| Only brand with schedule, register, ticket, and storeNo one else has this four-product stack when you add the Suite: TazSchedule for scheduling, TazForm for registration, TazTix for best-in-class electronic ticketing (a full system — not a QR-code generator), and TazCart for the tournament apparel and merch shop. Stay standalone if you already collect registrations elsewhere. | Included | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Named conflict auditThe audit names the match that broke a blackout, coach overlap, or court hour — including league weekends a team was open to play but received no game. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Drag-and-drop court gridDrag unscheduled games onto Available cells; move or swap matches already on the grid; Find a slot ranks the five best openings for a leftover and places it from the keyboard, with undo. The grid will not invent a court that was not in the upload. | Included | Included | Included | Partial or add-on | Included | Included | Included |
| Coach and venue locksBy-team coach lock and venue lock, plus pinned games, survive Generate, Fill remaining, and Hail Mary so a late entry does not rebuild the confirmed slate. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| CSV / Excel / PDF exportSpreadsheet layouts the platforms you already publish with expect, plus printable PDFs, a second publisher CSV, and a conflict-audit PDF. | Included | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on | Included | Partial or add-on | Included |
| Public event home, no parent accountOne shareable event page — browse divisions, find a team, open the championship bracket, see venue addresses and team logos, follow live scores, subscribe to the team calendar, and optional Buy Tickets / Shop links. Families do not need a login. | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Calendar feeds for families (.ics)Subscribe to the event, a division, or one team from the public page. Apple, Google, and Outlook refresh it hourly, so a moved game moves on the family calendar. No account. | Included | Not yet verified | Included | Included | Included | Partial or add-on | Not yet verified |
| Release the schedule in phasesKeep the public page hidden while you work, then release a league a few weeks at a time or a tournament one day at a time. Finale names stay off the page until the draw is set. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Partial or add-on |
| Coach portal from one invite linkPublish one link. The coach creates a login, claims the team (first claim wins), accepts the waiver, and enters staff plus roster. On a league they also enter blackout dates, days, and hours. That window closes once the event has games. Directors pull that into scoresheets. No admin seat. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Officials portal for the assignorA login for the assignor, without an admin seat: filter by week, day, venue, and court, place sport-aware refs, download a PDF or CSV sheet, and mark who worked. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
| Competition backup and restoreDownload a JSON of teams, venues, locks, and the current slate. Restore it if Hail Mary made Friday's version look better. | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Not yet verified | Included | Not yet verified | Not yet verified |
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A dash means we have not independently verified that capability for that vendor from their live documentation (checked 2026-10-22). Partial means they document a related tool, not the same constraint engine. None means their live pages show they do not offer that item (for example a published per-event price, or Taz's four-product stack: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart). We only publish a competitor mark after checking a live page; each comparison page links to the source. Pricing and capabilities change — verify before you rely on this table.
Where they are still the better fit
The court-grid holes their docs used to own are matched or passed. These three are still reasons a director stays with them.
A family app that pushes when a game moves
Tourney Machine, LeagueApps Play, SportsEngine, Bracket Team, and Exposure ship a mobile app with alerts. Families on TazSchedule open one event page and subscribe to a calendar that refreshes hourly. Push when a game moves is still theirs.
A directory coaches already browse
Exposure is a basketball event network. SportsEngine is the association graph. Tourney is an event brand families already open. TazSchedule publishes the one event you share. It does not list you in someone else's directory.
Registration in the same login
LeagueApps, SportsEngine, Exposure, Bracket Team, LeagueLobster, and Tourney take signups inside the scheduler. TazSchedule imports the export you already have. Registration is TazForm, on Monthly or Annual. Stay standalone if you already collect registrations elsewhere.
Read the individual comparisons
Each page opens with why directors pick TazSchedule, names where that platform is genuinely strong, then why we are the better fit for the slate.
TazSchedule
Build the court grid, then hand it off. Coaches claim a team from one link. Site directors enter scores on a phone. The assignor places refs and prints the sheet. No admin seats for those jobs. Families open one event page — divisions, team finder, brackets, and live scores — with no account, and subscribe to a team calendar that updates when a game moves. $49/mo or $399/yr (or $49 once). No one else has fully functioning scheduling, best-in-class electronic ticketing, registration, and a merchandise store all in one: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart.
TazSchedule vs Tourney Machine
Youth sports tournaments that need a public event homepage
Import, generate, Pack or Hail Mary, then one link each for coaches, scorers, and the assignor. $49/mo or $399/yr. No one else has fully functioning scheduling, best-in-class electronic ticketing, registration, and a merchandise store all in one: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart.
TazSchedule vs LeagueApps
Clubs that want registration and payments in the same product as scheduling
The court grid and the handoff links, at a flat price — not a take-rate on every registration. No one else has fully functioning scheduling, best-in-class electronic ticketing, registration, and a merchandise store all in one: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart.
TazSchedule vs SportsEngine
Associations and clubs already living in the SportsEngine network
A dedicated court grid and handoff links at $49/mo or $399/yr — without an association monthly fee. No one else has fully functioning scheduling, best-in-class electronic ticketing, registration, and a merchandise store all in one: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart.
TazSchedule vs LeagueLobster
Smaller leagues that want a simple public schedule without a full club OS
Registration-export import, leftover repair, then a link for coaches and the assignor. $49/mo or $399/yr. No one else has fully functioning scheduling, best-in-class electronic ticketing, registration, and a merchandise store all in one: TazSchedule, TazForm, TazTix, and TazCart.
TazSchedule vs Bracket Team
Youth basketball and multi-site tournaments that want an app plus tickets
Directors who have run Bracket Team still rewrite the grid by hand. TazSchedule generates, then Pack / Hail Mary the leftovers — $49/mo or $399/yr.
TazSchedule vs Exposure
Youth basketball tournaments that live in the Exposure directory and app
Exposure’s autoscheduler is famous — and directors still rewrite it. TazSchedule is the court-grid repair workflow at $49/mo or $399/yr.
The fastest comparison is last season's file
Import last season's team export and a court grid. Generate. See a clean slate — then decide if $49 per event is the no-brainer it looks like.