Next Inning vs Bracketfield

Next Inning is a lineup, fielding, and playing-time app for youth baseball coaches. It is the top of the third. Your left fielder wants to pitch, a parent is asking why their kid sat two innings in a row, and you are holding a dry-erase board in one hand and a lineup card in the other. Next Inning replaces both. It is built for the innings you are coaching, not the recap afterward. PLAN THE GAME Build the fielding rotation in a grid: players down the side, innings across the top, tap a cell to set a position. Or start from a generated plan: Next Inning fills every inning of fielding around your rules, each player's position preferences, and who has been sitting. You set the batting order yourself, by dragging it into shape (in continuous batting order) or copying it from a prior game. Enter your limits once (minimum field innings, consecutive bench innings, pitcher innings, pitch caps, rest days) or start from a league preset, with a per-game override for tournaments. Enter pitch counts after an outing and Next Inning helps you track them: it flags a plan that breaks one of your rules and still lets you make the call. RUN THE DUGOUT The dugout view is the point of the app: one screen, big type, high contrast, readable at a glance in direct sun from a few feet away. Tap a name, tap a position, and the inning is set. One tap steps to the next inning and the positions redraw. Mark a player unavailable, mark an injury from an inning, or sub a player out; the batting order and fielding plan route around them. Position changes, swaps, and sub-outs have an undo, so a mis-tap costs you a second, not an inning. On a tablet in landscape the batting order sits beside the field; on a phone you switch between the two, so the tablet can stay in the dugout while you coach from the baseline. Super-bright mode holds the screen at full brightness for noon games, and it stays awake between pitches. WORKS OFFLINE Ball fields have bad service. Sign in once with your email; after that the dugout runs on the device. Every tap writes locally first and syncs when a connection comes back, so a dead zone at the back field behaves like full signal. SHOW YOUR WORK Season totals per player: innings played, innings at each position, bench innings, pitch counts, games played, and a fairness score that rises when innings and infield time are spread evenly and nobody sits two innings in a row. Export the season fairness report as a PDF to print or bring to the playing-time conversation. It is a document instead of a memory, which is usually all that conversation needs. YOU AND YOUR ASSISTANTS Invite an assistant coach with a six-character code. They sign in on their own phone and see the same lineup, fielding plan, and inning, usually within seconds when you both have signal. ALSO IN THE APP - Multiple teams; copy roster instead of retyping names each season - Roster with jersey numbers, preferred positions, and positions to avoid - Bullpen and on-deck planning, plus the pitching order - Per-game availability, designated hitter, game summary with the score - Schedule with opponent, home or away, field on a map, and game-time forecast - Printable lineup card as a PDF for the umpire and scorekeeper - Fractional innings, so a mid-inning swap counts honestly - Coaching-staff chat per team and per game, with mute and report WHAT IT DOES NOT DO Next Inning does not score the game, stream video, or broadcast to families. Other apps do that well and you can keep using them. This one helps you decide who plays where, and shows your work when someone asks. Free to use. No ads. We never sell or rent player data, and a roster is visible only to the coaches you invite. Next Inning is built for coaches. Head coaches and assistant coaches use it, and it stores roster information, so it is not designed for players to use. Support: support@nextinning.app nextinning.app

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.