The lineup tool that's already in the app that runs your season.

How the roster gets in

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Add players by hand, paste a list, or import from a league registration. Jersey number, name, and any position preferences come across.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Paste the list, or type names in one at a time, with jersey numbers and position preferences. About two minutes the first time.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Type the roster in, or create a free account and save it for next time. No CSV import on the free tier.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Paste from a spreadsheet, screenshot a roster from GameChanger or TeamSnap, or upload a CSV. It auto-detects the columns.

~Dugout: Partly.

Imports from a GameChanger CSV or a boxscore PDF. No roster entry for a team that is not already in GameChanger.

How the fielding rotation is built

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Open an empty game and the fair rotation is already there: bench, infield, and outfield evened out across the innings you set (1 to 15, six by default), built from who is attending, with prefer honored and avoid plus pitcher/catcher eligibility hard. Tap any position to change it, copy an inning from a previous game, describe what you want in plain English, or hit Regenerate for a new variation. The draft never overwrites your edits.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

One-tap auto-fair: every player rotates through positions across innings, bench time is spread evenly, and you can lock a player to a spot for a specific inning.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

One-tap auto-fair with a competitive-priority slider that leans fun-and-participation or competitive advantage. Position preferences, position eligibility, and co-ed rules are honored.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

One-tap auto-fair across Sandlot, Rec, and Travel modes, with optional player ratings (Batting/Defense, or Contact/Fielding/Power/Speed/Throwing) and continuous batting order or extra hitter.

~Dugout: Partly.

Recommends a batting order from your stats (OBP-first, contact-first, or small ball). Fielding rotation is not its product. You set positions yourself.

How the batting order is built

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Open an empty game and the order is already there, rotated from last game so every kid takes a turn batting first over the season. Drag batters into a new order, copy from a previous game, or describe what you want in plain English. Reorder in seconds when a kid shows up late or has to leave early.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

A "Balance Lineup Order" button evens out batting slots across the season so the same players are not always at the top or bottom. Fine-tune by dragging on the results screen.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Drag-and-drop batting order with the generator's balance logic. Softball supports alternating male/female for co-ed leagues.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Auto-generated by the same fairness pass that handles fielding, with a What-If mode that shows how moving one player changes the season fairness before you commit.

✓Dugout: Yes.

OBP-first, contact-first, or small-ball philosophies, with every recommended slot tagged with the reason. Backed by your own GameChanger data.

Lock a player to a position for one inning

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Yes. Pin a player to a position in any inning and copy the inning to fill the rest. The lock survives an AI regenerate when you keep that player as a preference.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Set a position preference for any player and specific inning. The generator locks them there and works around it.

~Dugout Edge: Partly.

Premium only: "lock specific players into positions for any inning, and shuffle the rest. Locked cells stay put."

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Lock a position, an inning, or a batting spot, then regenerate the rest around the locks.

·Dugout: No.

Not what it does. Recommendations come from stats, not from per-inning locks.

Mark which players are not here tonight

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Parents RSVP going, maybe, or out before the game. Mark a kid absent in the app and the lineup rebuilds around who is actually here. Attendance is on every row of the fielding grid.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Before generating, mark the players who are not at this game. The lineup is built only for the players who are here.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Per-inning attendance: mark which innings each player is available (arrives late, leaves early), and the generator adjusts.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Uncheck a player and regenerate in about 30 seconds. Use it when a kid calls out at warmups.

·Dugout: No.

Not a feature. Dugout is reading from GameChanger data, not from tonight's attendance.

Whether you can start without talking to anyone

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Sign up, build a team, set a lineup. No sales call. Most coaches are scoring a first player in about two minutes.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Try it with no account. Free plan needs a sign-up to save; everything else works without one.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

No sign-up required to use the free lineup generator. An optional free account saves your team.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

A free plan with no credit card. Paid is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

~Dugout: Partly.

A 30-day free trial needs a card. Past that, monthly or annual. Paid by card.

Editing the lineup on a phone

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Tap a position to drop a player in, or describe the change in plain English. Made for the phone: the fielding grid and batting order fit one phone screen.

~Inning Wizard: Partly.

Runs in a browser. You can edit and drag, but the page was designed at desktop size and squashes on a small screen.

~Dugout Edge: Partly.

Runs in a browser. The free generator is usable on a phone; the premium game-day board is a separate screen.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Built for the phone first. Their own copy: "Other tools want you to squint at a spreadsheet on a 6-inch screen. GameTime was built for the phone first."

~Dugout: Partly.

Runs in a browser with a desktop dashboard. The screenshots on their site are desktop-first; small screens are not what they sell.

Sharing the lineup with parents and staff

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Parents see the schedule and RSVP from their own phone in the same app. A share-by-link for the lineup itself is not shipped.

~Inning Wizard: Partly.

Export as CSV or print the dugout sheet. No parent-side view of the lineup as a live page.

~Dugout Edge: Partly.

PDF or CSV export, plus a magnetic lineup board you can buy. No in-app parent share.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

A shareable lineup graphic for the team chat, plus a view-only link parents can open from a phone. Assistant coaches get their own login on the paid tier.

✓Dugout: Yes.

Shareable player stat cards, and opponent scouting before each game. Schedule syncs from GameChanger.

Runs in a browser, nothing to install

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Runs in a browser for coaches, parents, and evaluators, plus an iPhone app. The Android app lands before September.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Browser only. Works on phones and tablets out of the box.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Browser only, with separate practice-planner, scorekeeping, and chalkboard pages.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Browser only. Their copy: "No laptop required. Ever."

✓Dugout: Yes.

Browser only. No native app.

Auto-fair lineup by default

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Yes, and it is the default: open an empty game and a fair batting order plus a balanced fielding rotation are already there, built from who is attending. Turn it off per team if you prefer to set every game by hand.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Every player rotates through positions across innings; bench time is distributed evenly. The marketing line is "fair, balanced lineups in seconds".

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

A fairness algorithm that balances playing time, position rotation, and your competitive-priority slider. The page is built around this claim.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Auto-fair lineup with a Basic rating (batting/defense) or an Advanced rating (Contact/Fielding/Power/Speed/Throwing).

·Dugout: No.

Not what it does. Lineup recommendations are stats-driven, not fairness-driven.

See who sat two innings in a row

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Yes. A warning triangle flags any player who sat two set innings back to back, on the fielding grid and in the editor.

~Inning Wizard: Partly.

Not surfaced in the UI. The generator avoids it by construction, but no explicit "this kid is sitting too much" flag.

~Dugout Edge: Partly.

The generator avoids it by construction and the editor "highlights any potential issues with your changes". Close to the same thing, less explicit.

~GameTime Lineups: Partly.

The fairness grade surfaces it after the fact: "a player-by-player breakdown of innings played, positions started, and bench time" on the paid tier.

·Dugout: No.

Not what it does.

Season totals across every game

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Lineup History: a batting rotation matrix (players by past games, leadoff highlighted, season leadoff totals) plus a fielding balance scorecard (infield, outfield, bench, pitcher and catcher per player, least-balanced first) with a "could use more infield" nudge. The Player Growth Report carries the same mix per player.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Every lineup you generate is saved. View the season, see who played which position when, and reuse as a starting point.

~Dugout Edge: Partly.

Saved lineups and team history are a premium feature.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Save every game, mark wins and losses, and watch playing-time trends across the season. Position distribution charts and a batting-order heatmap are on the paid tier.

✓Dugout: Yes.

Season trends for every metric they read off your GameChanger exports: QAB%, OBP, strike%, BB/K ratio.

A fairness report a parent can read

·InfieldHQ: No.

No. The growth report is for the coach. Nothing publishes to parents today.

~Inning Wizard: Partly.

A printable coaching sheet with hit-tracking boxes, but no parent-facing fairness report.

·Dugout Edge: No.

Not a feature.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

A fairness PDF export on the paid tier, with a player-by-player breakdown and a batting-order heatmap. The copy: "the report you pull up when a parent asks why their kid only played one inning of infield."

✓Dugout: Yes.

Shareable stat cards parents can open from their phone.

Try a change before you commit it

~InfieldHQ: Partly.

For AI-generated lineups, the prompt preview is what-you-see-is-what-you-get. There is no slider or what-if panel for hand-edits.

·Inning Wizard: No.

Not a feature. Generate, drag, print.

·Dugout Edge: No.

Not documented.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

What-If mode on the paid tier: move a player into a different spot and watch the season fairness grade move in real time before you commit.

·Dugout: No.

Not documented.

Print or PDF the lineup for the dugout

·InfieldHQ: No.

Not shipped. The lineup lives in the app; PDF or printable export is not a feature today.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Two print copies: a big-text dugout sheet and a coaching sheet with hit-tracking boxes and a diamond for marking plays.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

PDF and CSV export at no cost, on the free tier.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

PDF for the clipboard, a shareable lineup graphic for the team chat, and CSV export of rosters and lineups.

~Dugout: Partly.

Game-day dashboard is on screen, not a printable artifact.

Live game scoring and box scores

·InfieldHQ: No.

Not shipped. InfieldHQ tracks positions, attendance, and who has played where. It does not score the game.

·Inning Wizard: No.

Not what it does.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

A separate Game Day Scoring app, free, no account needed. Pitch counts and playing time tracking on the same board.

·GameTime Lineups: No.

Not what it does.

~Dugout: Partly.

Reads GameChanger boxscores. Does not score the game itself.

Walk-up songs that follow the batting order

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

DJ mode reads the lineup the coach set, plays walk-ups in that order, and moves to the next batter for you. One screen in the app that already runs the game.

·Inning Wizard: No.

Not what it does.

·Dugout Edge: No.

Not what it does.

·GameTime Lineups: No.

Not what it does.

·Dugout: No.

Not what it does.

Parents RSVP from their own phone

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Yes. Parents open the parent side of the same app and RSVP going, maybe, or out. The coach sees the change in the lineup builder.

·Inning Wizard: No.

Not a feature.

·Dugout Edge: No.

Not a feature.

~GameTime Lineups: Partly.

A view-only link parents can open to see the lineup, but RSVP happens elsewhere.

·Dugout: No.

Not a feature.

Running the league as a whole

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

League admin, team formation, divisions, registration import, and tryouts are in the same app. The lineup is one screen in the thing that runs the season.

·Inning Wizard: No.

Not what it does.

~Dugout Edge: Partly.

Practice planner, drill library, schedule maker, tournament bracket. All separate tools on the site, not a league admin surface.

~GameTime Lineups: Partly.

A leagues and organizations tier with league-wide fairness reporting, playing-time compliance, and centralized coach management. Custom pricing.

·Dugout: No.

Not what it does. Schedules sync from GameChanger.

Entry price

✓InfieldHQ: Free.

Free. No card, no trial, no plan tier. Coach features are free; the league admin side is paid (not the topic of this page).

✓Inning Wizard: Free.

Free plan: 1 team, 12 players, 6 innings, 10 lineup generations.

✓Dugout Edge: Free.

Free lineup generator, no signup. Premium features on a 7-day trial, then $8 a month.

✓GameTime Lineups: Free.

Free plan: 1 team, 10 saved lineups, up to 15 players. Paid is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.

·Dugout: $19 / month.

30-day free trial with a card. Then $19 a month, or $149 a year ($12.42 a month).

Charges per player

✓InfieldHQ: None.

No per-player fee, ever. Twelve players or twenty costs the same.

~Inning Wizard: Banded.

Free caps at 12 players. Paid Individual ($15/year) raises that ceiling.

✓Dugout Edge: None.

No per-player fee on the free or the $8/month premium tier.

✓GameTime Lineups: None.

No per-player fee. The free tier caps at 15 players, the paid tier does not.

✓Dugout: None.

No per-player fee. One subscription covers one team of any size.

Subscription vs one-time

✓InfieldHQ: None.

No subscription to cancel.

~Inning Wizard: Yearly.

Yearly subscription, $15. No monthly option published.

~Dugout Edge: Monthly.

$8 a month for premium. Free tier does not need a subscription.

✓GameTime Lineups: One-time.

Founding Coach is $29 paid once, yours for life. After the first 200 spots it goes to $49 lifetime.

·Dugout: Monthly or yearly.

$19 a month or $149 a year. Auto-renews; cancel any time.

Sports it covers

~InfieldHQ: Partly.

Softball and baseball. Works with the 9- or 10-player setup your league runs.

~Inning Wizard: Partly.

Baseball. Softball is a separate generator on the same site.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Baseball and softball, including co-ed softball, 10-player slow pitch with a short fielder, extra hitter, and whole-team batting.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Baseball and softball, tee ball to high school. Continuous batting order or extra hitter.

·Dugout: No.

Baseball only. Built around Little League rules and the GameChanger youth-baseball audience.

Phones it runs on

✓InfieldHQ: Yes.

Runs in a browser on any phone, plus an iPhone app. The Android app lands before September.

✓Inning Wizard: Yes.

Runs in a browser on any phone.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Runs in a browser on any phone.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Runs in a browser on any phone. Built for mobile first.

✓Dugout: Yes.

Runs in a browser on any phone. Desktop screenshots are the primary surface.

Setup rules it knows about

~InfieldHQ: Partly.

9 or 10 players. No co-ed gender-balance rules, no slow-pitch rover, no extra-hitter slot, no mandatory-play rule per division. The position picker shows nine softball positions plus a tenth "extra" spot.

~Inning Wizard: Partly.

Innings from 6 to 9+. Roster sizes from 8 to 20+. No co-ed rules; softball is a separate product.

✓Dugout Edge: Yes.

Co-ed softball with alternating batting order and minimum male/female fielding. 10-player slow pitch with a short fielder. Extra hitter. Whole-team batting. Custom innings and position sets.

✓GameTime Lineups: Yes.

Continuous batting order or extra hitter. 5 to 7 innings. Sandlot, Rec, and Travel philosophies. 9 to 15 players.

~Dugout: Partly.

Little League pitch count rules are built in. Position eligibility is per-player; no co-ed or softball-specific rules.