Draft Pool vs StatSide Sports
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Draft Pool
Create and join international soccer team drafts with friends. Experience the thrill of real-time scoring and dramatic tournament unfolds, with unique drafting mechanics where later picks are worth more.
- Snake-draft international soccer teams
- Position-based point multipliers
- Live and asynchronous drafts
- Automatic score updates from real matches
- Auto-draft for missed picks
- CPU opponents with adjustable difficulty
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Gather your friends and draft your way to bragging rights. The Draft Pool is a pick'ems draft game with a twist: the later you pick a team, the more their points are worth. Three ways to play: • Season Long NFL: draft once, own your teams for the whole season • Weekly NFL & Premier League: re-draft fresh teams every week, with optional auto-draft based on your ranked preferences Create a private pool and invite your friends with a code, or join an open public pool. Live standings update as real games are played, with a scoring system that rewards drafting sharp. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the NFL, Premier League, or FIFA.
StatSide Sports
Get real-time scores and game updates for college football, NFL, NBA, and NHL. Follow your favorite teams, view live game details, and access league standings and team information. Includes home screen widgets and Siri integration for quick access to game info.
- Real-time scores for CFB, NFL, NBA, NHL
- Follow favorite teams
- Live game details and stats
- League standings and team pages
- Home screen and lock screen widgets
- Siri integration
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StatSide is football, basketball and hockey, college and pro, at a glance. One screen answers "what's happening right now" — no ads, no interstitials, nothing between you and the scores. BUILT FOR GAME DAY, ALL YEAR • Your teams first: follow any team in any of the four leagues and their games lead the page, together • One day at a time, every league stacked — college football broken down the way you think about it, by conference, and pro football, basketball and hockey each in a section of their own • Live games get a pulsing dot, heavier type on the score, and possession where the sport has it • One tap filters to live games, or to the tight ones: close late, or the underdog ahead YOUR TEAMS, EVERYWHERE • A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with your teams' live score or next game, from every league you follow • Reminders 30 minutes before your teams play • Ask Siri "What's my next game?" — or share a score straight from any game • Long-press any game to follow a team or share the score LEAGUES, TABLES AND TEAMS • The college football Top 25 polls, with movement arrows • Every college conference, and every pro conference and division — each table in its own league's terms • Game pages: line score, box score, scoring plays, team stats, leaders, win probability, the head-to-head series, and the plays themselves — drives for football, periods for basketball and hockey • Team pages: the record, season stats and leaders, the full season, bye weeks, the roster, the home ground, and the trophies the team has won • Player pages: this season's numbers, every game, and the career, reached from a roster, a search, a box score or a game's leaders • Optional betting lines: the spread and over/under before kickoff, off unless you turn them on • Search any team, conference, game or player — across every league, from a field that sits under your thumb • Browse past seasons back to 2014 DESIGNED QUIET Black, white, and team logos in full color, light or dark or matching your phone. No banner ads, no autoplay video, no account, no tracking. StatSide collects no data — your followed teams live on your phone and nowhere else. Free. Fast. Four leagues, done right. StatSide is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any league, conference, team or school.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StatSide Sports at every 5 days against Draft Pool's fortnightly. Draft Pool's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Draft Pool against 5.0 for StatSide Sports. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Draft Pool ships an update fortnightly, StatSide Sports every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Draft Pool | StatSide Sports |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Hansen | Andrew Weir |
Customer experience
Draft Pool
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In-app purchases
Draft Pool
No in-app purchases
StatSide Sports
No in-app purchases









