Netball Tryouts
Netball Tryouts runs a selection trial end to end. Registration, check-in, a schedule that never lies, scoring that works without Wi-Fi, a decision the panel can stand behind and AI Assistant to ask questions about player performance or decisions.
It is an event operating system for selectors, not an automated selector. It improves opportunity, observation and traceability. The final judgement stays with the panel, and the record shows how they reached it.
Seven stages. One weekend. Nothing lost between them.
A public form that asks only what you want to ask, or import your PlayHQ list and check it before anything is saved. Two ranked positions, guardian and emergency contacts, availability, and versioned consents.
Trial numbers are assigned when a player is eligible, so printed lists exist before the day. Five large buttons at the door, and an injury or a no-show flows straight into the schedule.
Drills and match runs across every court, with selectors rotated so each player is seen by more than one pair of eyes. The rules of a fair trial are never broken silently. When the targets do not fit, you get warnings with fixes.
Trial number and position only. One tap per criterion, anchors on long-press, a not-observed toggle that is never a zero. Every tap is on the device before it says saved, and it reaches the panel once, and only once, when the signal returns.
Coverage first, then evidence. A low score and not seen enough are different facts and stay on different sides of the card. Selector disagreement is flagged, never smoothed over.
Build teams by drag or by tap, with a position-coverage matrix that says how many can play GK. Ask for a draft combination. Depart from the shortlist if you like, but write down why. Ratifiers approve independently.
Templated letters for selected, reserve, callback and unsuccessful, routed to the guardian for anyone under eighteen, approved as a batch before a single one is sent. Feedback reports built from the evidence, not from memory.
Give it the sessions, courts, selectors, positions and who actually turned up. It builds a fair, feasible, explainable schedule, and tells you what limited it. Same players, same courts, same schedule, every time.
Six of the twelve rules it will not break. Every schedule is checked against all twelve before it is published.
Trials often happen in venues that have no Wi-Fi or poor mobile coverage. The selector downloads the event once, then scores a whole session with the phone in airplane mode. Reload the page and the work is still there.
Nothing is doubled up. Score twenty players offline, reconnect, and there are twenty in review. Two selectors on two devices scoring the same player keep both observations. A blip in the connection is never a logout.
The review card puts how much we saw on one side and how well they played on the other, and refuses to combine them into a single number that would hide a player who was simply never put on court.
Missing means missing. A criterion nobody observed is excluded from every average, never counted as zero.
The team builder shows a candidate pool beside one or more rosters, with a position-coverage matrix that says plainly how many people in the squad can play each position. Ask it to suggest a combination and it reports the constraints it used.
It never applies its own suggestion. Every player you move into a team becomes a decision with a name against it.
Departing from the data-led shortlist is allowed. Doing it quietly is not. Any player picked over someone who rated above them for the same position needs a written rationale before the decision saves.
Ratification needs as many independent approvers as your policy says. Every registration, conflict, rubric change, schedule change, score edit, decision and export lands in a permanent record that nobody can rewrite.
The AI assistant answers questions about coverage, scores, exposure and comparisons from the evidence the person asking is already allowed to see. It reads. It never writes a score, a decision or a message.
It only ever knows Player 23 and Selector A. Names are scrubbed on the way in, checked on the way out, and every number in an answer is checked against the evidence before you see it.
Eight domains, common match-play criteria for everyone, and position-specific criteria that follow the bib. Each criterion is a 1–5 scale with written anchors, so a three means the same thing to every selector. The rubric freezes at the first score. Changing it afterwards takes a senior person, a written reason, and a record of exactly what changed.
A role is granted for the whole organisation or for one event, and it expires. What a role cannot reach is blocked at the source, not merely hidden from view.
Runs the association: settings, users, capabilities, rubrics, audit. Verifies Working with Children Checks.
Multi-factor sign-in requiredRuns the day: setup, registrations, schedule, check-in, communications, exports.
May or may not vote, per policyLeads the panel: coverage, review, compare, teams, decisions. Sees identity only at the review stage.
Cannot verify credentialsScores players on court, and nothing else. Own assignments, own observations.
Never sees another selector’s scores during collectionDrives the run board that tells players where to go. Start, complete, delay, cancel.
No player data beyond the numberMarks arrivals and confirms trial numbers from a name-and-number view only.
Cannot open a registrationHolds medical details and writes the one-line courtside restriction selectors are allowed to see.
The only role that reads medical detailApproves the final teams independently of the people who picked them.
Reads the summary and the roster, nothing elseA parent. Sees their own child’s registration, consents, outcome and feedback.
Receives every under-18 communicationAn adult player sees their own registration and their own published outcome.
Nobody else’sBlind mode has two stages and is built into the platform, not left to good behaviour. While scoring is open, a selector’s device holds trial numbers and positions only. There is no way for a selector to look up who a number is. Identity, club and history appear only when the phase enters review, and only to the people allowed to see them.
What a selector sees on the day: the number on the bib.
Not a policy page. Rules built into the platform itself, so they hold on the busiest day.
No adult in a position of authority reaches player data or scoring until their Working with Children Check is verified. A check that expires switches scoring off overnight. A negative notice revokes every event role at once.
Every communication to a player under eighteen goes to the guardian first. It is built in, so no template and no convenor can route around it.
There is no way for a selector to message a player or a family. Not hidden, not disabled. The feature does not exist anywhere in the product.
Only the medical officer reads a diagnosis. Selectors see a single restriction line, written for the court. Coaches never see either.
Selectors acknowledge the policy, confidentiality and the rubric, declare their availability and their conflicts, and are confirmed ready by the convenor before a single score can be entered.
The AI assistant only ever sees trial numbers. It cannot reach names, contacts, registrations, medical records or messages, because it was never given a way to.
A forty-minute walkthrough with your convenor and your chair, using your program, your positions and your rubric. Bring the schedule that went wrong last year.