About RankedSports

I built RankedSports because I couldn't find what I actually needed.

For a few years I organized a recreational basketball league — nothing serious, just a group of maybe thirty people who wanted to play on Tuesday nights. We had teams, we had a bracket, and every season we had the same problem: no one could see the bracket except whoever was standing next to the whiteboard in the gym.

I tried printing it out. Someone always spilled something on it. I tried Google Sheets. Updating scores from the court meant getting out my phone, opening the sheet, finding the right cell, and entering a number while someone was asking me who they played next. It worked, barely, and it felt ridiculous.

The tournament apps I found either wanted everyone to create an account (nobody is creating an account for a Tuesday night basketball league), cost money for features that should be basic, or were clearly designed for professional events and had the complexity to match.

So I built what I actually wanted. Something you can set up in two minutes, share with a link, and update from your phone courtside. The PIN system came from a simple observation: you don't need user accounts for this. The person running the tournament needs to edit scores. Everyone else just needs to watch. So create the tournament, set a PIN you'll remember, share the link with your teams, and you're done.

It's free because it started as a weekend project and it doesn't feel right to charge for something this straightforward. Running a tournament is already enough work — the software shouldn't be part of the problem.

RankedSports supports single elimination and round robin formats, any sport, any team count. If you're organizing a basketball tournament, a pickleball round robin, a ping pong bracket at work, or a cornhole tournament at a backyard party — it works the same way. Add your teams, generate the bracket, share the link.

If you have feedback or something's not working, hit the button in the bottom corner. I read every message.