Blast Softball vs Bracketfield

Train smarter and get better with the #1 hitting improvement technology, trusted by more pro, college, elite travel ball, academy teams, coaches, and players for player development at every level of play than any other solution. Simply attach the Blast Softball Swing Analyzer or Personal Swing Trainer*** to any standard bat and your iPad or iPhone will do the rest. Record video of your swings in the Blast Softball app* and the patented Smart Video Capture™ technology will automatically identify your swings, clip your video, and overlay your swing metrics, synchronized at impact. (Bat Speed, Time to Contact, Attack Angle, etc.) With the 3D Swing Tracer, you can replay and analyze your swing path instantly. Live mode provides real-time feedback, allowing you to visualize your swing, make adjustments, and see the results. Compare your swing videos side-by-side or send them to a coach for further analysis. Players and coaches with a membership or free trial can utilize the app’s advanced functionality to automatically assess every swing for swing quality, providing insights in three areas that all great hitters possess: plane, connection, and rotation. Insights make it simple for coaches to evaluate players for recruitment and player development, with recommendations and drills for improvement. Coaches can also streamline coaching feedback through Mobile Video Analysis with voice-over recording and video markup tools. The Blast Softball Swing Analyzer and Personal Swing Trainer*** are highly accurate, advanced 3D motion capture system that record your swings. They use Bluetooth® Smart technology to connect to your iPhone or iPad. There’s no need to alter your natural swing. The Swing Analyzer / Personal Swing Trainer know when to dynamically power-up the patented motion detection algorithms to capture your metrics in real-time. They even store data on the Swing Analyzer / Personal Swing Trainer when your mobile device is out of range and download your actions to the Blast app as soon as you reconnect. With the Blast Softball app*, coaches, parents, and players of all ages can gain the insights they need to improve their swing and gain the competitive edge. * The Blast Softball app requires the Blast Softball Swing Analyzer or Personal Swing Trainer and the Blast bat attachment to collect data. The app currently supports English language and Imperial measurements. ** Requires a Blast Connect and Premium Services account and Swing Analyzer to provide advanced app, player, and coaching functionality. Blast Connect is an information and player management platform that features data trending, advanced reporting, roster management, mobile video analysis, and more. *** The Blast Softball Swing Analyzer / Personal Swing Trainer, charger, and bat attachment are sold as a package. Separate purchase required – available from blastmotion.com Privacy Policy: https://blastmotion.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Service: https://blastmotion.com/terms-of-service/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Bracketfield runs a youth softball or baseball tournament end to end — divisions, pool play, brackets, scores, standings, field assignments — and shows every change to the families standing at the field. It is free. No paid tier, no per-team fee, no in-app purchases, and no advertising anywhere in it. FOR PARENTS AND SPECTATORS You never make an account. Not to search, not to follow a team, not to get a notification. - Search by team name, club, city or event code, and open the tournament. - The whole weekend's schedule, filtered by division, by field, or to live games only. - Every division's bracket on one page. A game that is not set yet reads "Winner of W1-3" rather than sitting blank. - Pool standings that name the tiebreaker that settled a placing. - Follow a team and your phone tells you when its game moves to another field or another time. Notifications are rationed on purpose: a field change breaks through, a run in the third inning does not. - Venue address, field list, parking notes, and a directions button that hands off to Apple or Google Maps. - Director announcements and this device's notification history in one Inbox. FOR DIRECTORS - Build divisions and pools, generate pool play and bracket games, and post scores. - Dry-run the weekend before anyone drives anywhere. It builds every game in memory, writes nothing, and reports what will not fit and why: "6 games will not fit", "one team is at the park 11.4 hours in one day", "3 first-round bracket games would be between poolmates". - Presets for 21 sanctioning bodies and editions across softball and baseball, with 19 transcribed tiebreaker rule sets. Every pre-filled value says whether it is that body's rule, a common default, or yours to set. Presets describe published rules; Bracketfield is not affiliated with or endorsed by any sanctioning body. - Tiered brackets, as many as you want, named by you — Gold/Silver, Championship/Consolation, AAA/AA/A, or your own. Seeds restart inside each bracket, and poolmates are kept apart within each tier. - Print one QR slip per field. An umpire scans it and posts scores from their own phone all weekend, with no account and no app install. Those scores reach families in seconds and land in your "waiting on you" queue as unconfirmed until you confirm them. - Paste a registration spreadsheet in and check the preview before it imports. - Draft, published, in progress, complete. A draft event is invisible to the public. Closing has its own screen so final placings never get skipped. - Duplicate last year's event. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO - No player rosters, no player stats, no box scores. A team is the smallest unit, and no child's information is collected. - No online registration and no payments. Entry and gate fees are numbers a director records in event settings. Bracketfield never takes money from anybody and has no way to. - It does not run the game clock or enforce a run rule. It fills in and cites the body's published rule for your rules sheet. - One venue per tournament. No satellite parks. - No bulk rain-delay shift and no undo. Games move one or two at a time. - No livestreaming, photos, weather feed or hotel booking. - Lock-screen alerts need this app. In a browser you get the same updates in the tournament Inbox instead. - A printed umpire slip is a key, not a login. Anyone holding it can post scores for that field until the event ends; rotate it if one goes missing. - Youth softball and baseball only.