Basketball tournament software and live scoring

Most basketball championships begin with a group stage and finish with a knockout. Zeetius Tournaments generates pools and round-robin fixtures from your entries, seeds teams from rankings or previous results, and carries the pool qualifiers into a knockout bracket for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and final.

Basketball games cannot end in a draw, so pool standings are built on wins and losses, then on tie-breaks such as head-to-head results and points difference. The order of tie-breaks varies between competitions, so it is configured for each event to match the rules your technical committee publishes.

League seasons run differently from weekend championships. A club, school or district league can be set up as a single or home-and-away round robin played over several weeks, with the fixtures published in advance and the table updated as each round's results come in.

Basketball points come in ones, twos and threes, credited to a team and a player. Scoring officials record them on the Zeetius multi-sport scoresheet, which also runs the game clock, so the score and the time move together from the scorer's table to every screen following the game.

On the Zeetius live score page each basketball game appears as a card showing the two teams, the running score, the game clock and the current quarter. Beneath the score a small grid shows the points each team scored in each quarter, so followers can see how the game was won as well as the result.

The clock is the hard part of live basketball. Instead of repeatedly sending the time, the scoresheet sends the moments the clock starts and stops, and each screen works out the current time from those events. A follower who reconnects after losing signal sees the correct time at once rather than a stale one.

• Points by value. Free throws, two-point and three-point baskets, recorded against the team and the player.
• Game clock. Started and stopped by the scoring official and shown live on every card.
• Quarter grid. Points for each quarter, shown under the running score.
• Your rules. Quarter length, overtime, team-foul limits and timeouts differ between competitions; tell us which rules you play to when your event is set up.

Basketball academies run batches by age and ability, often across several centres and courts. Zeetius Academy holds each athlete's profile, batch and attendance, and coaches record attendance and assessments on the mobile app during the session rather than writing them up afterwards.

Fees, coach payroll and expense claims sit in the same system as the training, so an owner sees collections, attendance and coaching hours together. Parents see their own child's attendance, assessments and fees, and nothing else. Academies with several centres manage each one separately and see the whole organisation in one view.

Academies can run internal competitions and manage entries to external tournaments, so the player who trains in a batch on Tuesday is the same player entered in the district championship at the weekend. Zet AI inside Zeetius Academy answers questions about the academy's own attendance, assessment and fee data.

• Batches and centres. Training groups by age and level, across one centre or many.
• Attendance and assessments. Recorded on court by coaches, visible to parents for their own child.
• Fees and payroll. Collections, claims and coach pay reconciled with the training schedule.