A squad you can explain to every parent

Every touch, pass and tackle becomes scores, voice notes and a ranked board, from every pitch and every evaluator, so when a parent asks why, you have the answer.

TryoutBrain is tryout software for youth and adult sports clubs. Coaches and evaluators score athletes from their phones by voice, sliders or paper sheets; the app matches every observation to the athlete, ranks the field, helps the staff place athletes on teams, and emails each family their result with the reasons. It is built in Canada and serves clubs in Canada and the United States.

Ninety players, two pitches, a weekend — and the full-back nobody watched.

Soccer tryouts are big, long and spread out. Evaluators stand on different touchlines and see different halves of different games; a centre-back has a quiet, excellent afternoon that reads as nothing on a clipboard; and by Sunday evening the coaches are ranking players from a feeling about Saturday.