Every board we install ships with software we wrote ourselves — for football, basketball, baseball, softball and soccer. So it changes when your season does.
Most companies that install a videoboard resell someone else's control software. We write ours. That single difference decides most of what your operators experience on a Friday night, and almost nobody asks about it until the season has already started.
When a board is sold with the manufacturer's software, the installer is a middleman. A sponsor loop that needs changing, a tournament with an unusual clock format, a new graphic for senior night — each one becomes a support ticket to a company that has never seen your field, and you wait on a release cycle that has nothing to do with your season.
Because we wrote ours, a change is a change. We can add what your program actually asks for, and we are an hour from most of the schools we work with rather than three time zones away.
The person operating a high school videoboard is usually a student, a parent volunteer, or an assistant coach who also has other jobs that night. Software written for a broadcast truck fails in that room — not because it lacks features, but because it assumes a trained operator who does not exist.
Everything is on one screen, organized into tabs, with the controls you touch every play kept largest and closest. A volunteer can be trained in an afternoon and run a game the same week. Nothing important is buried two menus deep, because during a game nobody goes looking.
Five sports, each purpose-built rather than one generic scoreboard app with the labels swapped. What a baseball operator needs on screen has almost nothing in common with what a football operator needs.
Scoreboard, Roster, Special Events, Penalties, Production, Music, Ad/Sponsor and Settings. Game clock with configurable quarter lengths, play clock, down and distance, field position and possession, scoring with an undo history, timeouts that reset themselves at halftime, and a quarter-by-quarter scoring grid that carries through overtime.
Penalties get their own tab with presets for the calls that actually happen — holding, false start, pass interference, offside, delay of game, face mask, illegal formation and the rest — plus custom entry, announced with a banner that slides onto the display. There is also instant replay, a featured-player panel and a player-of-the-game graphic.
Scoreboard, Roster, Special Events, Fouls, Production, Music, Ad/Sponsor and Settings. Game clock with configurable period lengths, a shot clock that can be set to 24, 30 or 35 seconds or switched off entirely, possession, and period tracking through overtime.
Fouls are a dedicated tab because in basketball they decide games: team fouls with automatic bonus and double-bonus states, and per-player foul and point tracking with a five-player on-court limit the software enforces so nobody has to remember it.
Game Control, Lineup, Special Events, Music, Sponsors and Settings. The Lineup tab is the one that matters — batting order, the batter currently at the plate, the active pitcher, and separate varsity and JV rosters so a doubleheader does not mean retyping a team.
The board carries pitch count, balls and strikes, outs and inning-by-inning line scoring at once, which is a layout problem as much as a software one. Walk-up graphics and player introductions run from the same screen.
Match clock and half tracking, score, roster cards, events and production, and sponsor control. Built as a modern modular app and packaged as a standard Windows installer, so a school can put it on a second machine without our help.
Every one of these has a dedicated advertising tab, because the sponsor inventory is the thing that makes the board affordable. That means rotating banner positions, full-screen commercial slots, a scrolling sponsor bar that runs continuously without anyone triggering it, and sponsor logos attached to specific moments — a touchdown graphic presented by a local business, for instance.
If sponsorship is bolted on afterwards it tends not to run, because it depends on a busy volunteer remembering. Built in, it runs whether anyone remembers or not, which is what you need when you have promised a sponsor a certain number of impressions.
The software runs on an ordinary Windows PC in the press box and talks to the display directly over your local network. No cloud account, no subscription, no login screen between your operator and the game.
This is deliberate. School networks fail, guest wifi gets saturated on a packed Friday night, and the internet is the least reliable thing at most venues. A game clock should never depend on any of that.
New for the 2026 season, a board can optionally push its live state to a phone app so fans can follow the score, roster and schedule from the stands or from home — and so poll, trivia and hype moments can be played on the videoboard with the crowd voting from their phones. Each of those is sponsorable inventory of a kind a static scoreboard cannot sell.
It is entirely opt-in and it fails safe. The board reaches out to the cloud rather than the other way round, so it works behind any school firewall without opening anything inbound. With the feature switched off the software behaves exactly as it always has, and if the cloud service is slow or unreachable the local display is unaffected. A cloud outage must never touch a live game, so it cannot.
Training is part of the installation, not a line item. We train whoever will actually be running it, on your board, in your press box — and then again in the fall if the student who learned it graduated.
The software is included with the display. There is no per-season license and no annual renewal that quietly climbs. If you want something changed in a later season, ask us.
The quickest way to judge scoreboard software is to watch someone operate it during a game. Several of our boards are within an hour of Smithville — ask and we will arrange it.