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Tryout software that doesn't stop at the tryout.
Tryouts happen a few weeks a year. TeamGenius bills you for twelve months anyway, starting at $1,050. InfieldHQ is $50 a month, you cancel between seasons, and your first two tryouts are free.
Your first two tryouts are free. Then $50 a month, cancel any time.
Which one is for you
Five products, five different buyers.
InfieldHQ
by InfieldHQ
$50 a month, and only the months you run tryouts
A rec league or club that wants a real multi-station tryout this weekend, and wants the results to turn into teams in the same app that then runs the season.
See evaluationsTeamGenius
by TeamGenius
$1,050 a year for up to 150 athletes
A large multi-sport association that evaluates hundreds of athletes a year, wants video and lifetime player history, and has a budget line for it. The most complete evaluation product here.
Check TeamGenius's own pricingSkillShark
by SkillShark
Free for 25 players, then $5 to $15 per athlete a year
A club that wants athlete report cards and progress tracking across 30-plus sports, and would rather pay per athlete than sign a four-figure contract.
Check SkillShark's own pricingSports Evaluations
by Sports Evaluations
$5 to $9 per player, 150-player minimum
An organization where the tryout is politically fraught and the answer is to remove names entirely, or to fly in neutral evaluators. Nobody else here offers that.
Check Sports Evaluations's own pricingRizzler
by Rizzler Sports
$79 a month for the tier that includes tryouts
A travel or high-school program that wants pitch charting, box scores and AI-suggested lineups, with tryouts as one part of a bigger coaching tool.
Check Rizzler's own pricingNobody runs tryouts twelve months a year
A rec league evaluates for a few weeks in February, and maybe again in August. Every product here except Rizzler bills you for the other ten months anyway. That's the part worth arguing about, more than the list price.
One February weekend, on us
Your first two tryouts are free, the whole thing: every station, every evaluator, the full roster. Most leagues get a season scored before they pay anything.
Then $50 for the month you used
Cancel when the tryout is done and start again next season. Your rubrics, your players and last season's results are waiting. Two tryout seasons a year is $100.
Against $750 to $1,050 a year
TeamGenius starts at $1,050 and 150 athletes is the ceiling of that plan. SkillShark and Sports Evaluations both land near $750 for 150 players. All three bill by the year.
Two things worth saying plainly. Rizzler bills monthly and cancels the same way we do, so against them this is $50 against $79 and nothing else. And SkillShark's free tier is genuinely free rather than a trial, so a tryout of 25 players or fewer costs nothing there, forever. Every other number on this page is a list price off that vendor's own pricing page, read on the date at the foot of this page.
The whole comparison
Grouped by when you'd actually run into it.
Getting the tryout stood up
The week before, when somebody still has to build the thing.
How you get to a working rubric
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Three starter rubrics pre-weighted for youth softball and baseball, down to 8U. Pick one and edit the stations and weights in place, always on a working tryout.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Start with a sport-specific template, or one from a partner organization, or build your own criteria, scoring ranges and weighting.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Pre-designed templates across 30-plus sports, a template builder, or both combined. On every tier including the free one.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- Templated categories on Basic. Customizable categories are the $9 Next Level tier.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Skill rubrics for tryouts, on the Club tier.
Getting your player list in
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Paste the list. Age tags like "8U" are picked up for you, and a registration export imports on the league side.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Player upload, event registration, and sync with SportsEngine, LeagueApps and TeamSnap.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Integrations with TeamSnap, SportsEngine and TeamLinkt from the $5 tier up.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- Their app handles the roster. No registration-platform integrations are published.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- GameChanger import, Google Sheets sync, and a photo-to-lineup scanner.
Whether you can start without talking to anyone
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Sign up and build it. No sales call and no quote, and your first two tryouts do not ask for anything. Most coordinators are scoring a first player in about two minutes.
- TeamGenius: Partly.
- A 14-day trial for up to 20 players. Past that it is a yearly plan paid by card or by invoice.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- The free tier runs one real evaluation event for 25 players with two evaluators.
- Sports Evaluations: No.
- Priced in 25-player blocks against a 150-player minimum, so the smallest order is a real purchase.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- A free tier and a 14-day Pro trial, but tryouts and evaluation events start on the $79 Club tier.
Tryout day
Cold hands, a dead spot in the parking lot, and a volunteer who has never seen the app.
What an evaluator has to install
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Nothing. They open the link from the email invite and score in the browser on whatever phone they brought.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Nothing, to score online. Their web scoring app “works on any browser”, and the iOS and Android apps are what you download to score offline.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Nothing, to score online. A browser works, and the iOS and Android apps are what you download to score offline.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- Their evaluation app, on the evaluator’s device. Platforms are not specified.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Web and iOS. No Android app is listed.
Scoring where there is no signal
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- In the browser, with no app on anyone’s phone. Open the scoring link while you still have signal and it keeps going: scores queue on the device and send themselves when signal returns, including after half an hour in a dead spot.
- TeamGenius: Partly.
- Yes, but in the app rather than the browser, and only once the assessment has loaded. Pull down on any screen to sync when you are back.
- SkillShark: Partly.
- Yes, but in the downloadable app rather than the browser. Scores are submitted once you reconnect.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- Not documented on their site.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Not documented on their site.
Checking players in
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Tap a name on the session roster. The check-in flips instantly and rolls back if the server refuses it, with the reason on screen.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Player check-in, with mobile check-in and an advanced version on the Pro tier.
- SkillShark: Partly.
- Player check-in starts on the $10 All-Star tier.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- Scheduling is part of the $9 Next Level tier. Check-in is not separately documented.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Not documented for evaluation events.
Keeping the tryout honest
- InfieldHQ: Partly.
- The rubric freezes once scoring opens, so nobody moves the goalposts mid-tryout, and evaluators are anonymised in the export.
- TeamGenius: Partly.
- Custom security levels and evaluator progress tracking. Names are shown to evaluators.
- SkillShark: Partly.
- Customizable security levels on the $15 Legend tier.
- Sports Evaluations: Yes.
- Evaluators never see a name. "Athletes are a number and a color", and you can buy neutral outside evaluators outright.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Not documented.
Turning scores into a decision
Sunday night, when somebody has to publish a list and defend it.
Ranked results
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Weighted and ranked as scores arrive, with a drill-down to every individual score behind a player, by station, criterion, session and rater.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Immediate results online, custom reports, and rankings.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Instant rankings and comparisons. Weighted reports start at the $5 tier.
- Sports Evaluations: Yes.
- Real-time reporting, and a final team-selection report with or without names.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- "Scored, ranked, and tiered in real time. Draft-ready the same day."
Changing the weights after you see the ranking
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Retune the weights and preview the ranking that candidate would produce before you commit it. What you approve is exactly what applies.
- TeamGenius: Partly.
- Weights and scoring ranges are set on the template. No published preview-before-apply step.
- SkillShark: Partly.
- Weighted reports from the $5 tier. No published preview-before-apply step.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- Not documented.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- AI-generated depth charts where you "tune the weights, read the reasons, override anything".
Getting the data out
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- CSV at two depths, rankings or every individual score, with evaluators anonymised.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Custom reports, email tracking, and API access on the $6,500 Elite tier.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Excel export from the $5 tier. API access on the $15 Legend tier.
- Sports Evaluations: Yes.
- Team-selection reports and an evaluator scorecard.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- Google Sheets sync.
A report card the family reads
- InfieldHQ: No.
- No. Results are for the people running the tryout. Nothing is published to parents.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Branded player evaluation and feedback reports, plus mid-season and end-of-season feedback.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Ready-to-use athlete report cards, on every tier including the free one.
- Sports Evaluations: No.
- Their stated focus is "team selection, not individual player evaluations".
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Player and family surveys, and a player profile with trend lines.
Video and photos of the athlete
- InfieldHQ: No.
- No. Scores and notes only.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Capture video or pictures, and player profile photos.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Video support in report cards, and an AI Swing Score add-on on the $10 tier.
- Sports Evaluations: No.
- Not documented.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Hit spray charts and pitch charting rather than video.
Evaluation history across seasons
- InfieldHQ: No.
- No. Each tryout stands alone today.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Lifetime player evaluation history for tracking development.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Player progress and comparison reports, from the $10 tier.
- Sports Evaluations: No.
- Built around a single selection event.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- "Every rating becomes a trend line on one player profile."
What happens after the tryout
The part every evaluation-only product hands back to you.
Turning results into teams
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Team formation and divisions are in the same app, reading the same players you just evaluated.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Team formation tools, then teams sync back out to your team-management platform.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- Draft mode and tiered draft reports, from the $10 tier.
- Sports Evaluations: Yes.
- This is the whole product. Team selection is what it is built for.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- Draft-ready tiers, and depth charts on the same roster.
Running the season the teams then play
- InfieldHQ: Yes.
- Schedule, attendance, batting order and field positions, the parent side, and walk-up songs. Same app, same login, no export step.
- TeamGenius: No.
- Not what it does. It syncs the teams out to SportsEngine, TeamSnap or LeagueApps and you run the season there.
- SkillShark: No.
- Not what it does. Evaluations only, with integrations out to a team-management platform.
- Sports Evaluations: No.
- Not what it does.
- Rizzler: Yes.
- Lineups, live scoring, pitch counts, schedule and RSVP, on the same roster.
What parents get
- InfieldHQ: Partly.
- Nothing from the tryout, but the schedule and RSVP for their own kid once the season starts.
- TeamGenius: Partly.
- The feedback report card. Everything else lives in whatever platform you sync to.
- SkillShark: Partly.
- The report card, and athlete self-assessments from the $10 tier.
- Sports Evaluations: No.
- Nothing. The output is the team list.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Family surveys and RSVP.
What it costs
A 150-player rec league, running a tryout weekend in February.
Entry price
- InfieldHQ: $50 a month.
- Flat, at any league size. Your first two tryouts are free, so most leagues score a full weekend before they pay anything.
- TeamGenius: $1,050 a year.
- Up to 150 athletes on the cheapest plan. $1,500 to 500, $2,900 to 1,000, $6,500 unlimited.
- SkillShark: Free, then $5.
- Free for your first 25 players. After that $5 per athlete a year, sold in blocks of 25.
- Sports Evaluations: $750 minimum.
- $5 per player on Basic against a 150-player minimum. $9 per player to customize the categories.
- Rizzler: $79 a month.
- Tryouts and evaluation events are Club-tier only. The free and $12.99 Pro tiers do not include them.
Paying for the ten months you are not running tryouts
- InfieldHQ: You do not.
- Cancel when the tryout is over, start again next season. Your rubrics, your players and last season’s results are still there when you come back.
- TeamGenius: Yearly.
- Billed by the year, by card or by invoice. A February tryout buys twelve months.
- SkillShark: Yearly.
- Per athlete, per year, auto-renewing at the anniversary.
- Sports Evaluations: Per season.
- Basic buys season-long access, still against the 150-player minimum.
- Rizzler: Monthly.
- Also monthly, and they say upgrade, downgrade or cancel whenever. The tryout features need the $79 tier.
Charges per athlete
- InfieldHQ: None.
- $50 is $50 at 40 players or at 1,000. No blocks, no bands, and no re-quote when the league grows.
- TeamGenius: Banded.
- Not per athlete, but the plan is capped by athlete count, so growing past 150 moves you to the $1,500 plan.
- SkillShark: $5 to $15 each.
- 150 players is $750 a year at the entry tier, or $2,250 at Legend.
- Sports Evaluations: $5 to $9 each.
- 150 players is $750 to $1,350. Their full-service option with on-site evaluators is $55 to $75 a player.
- Rizzler: Capped.
- No per-player fee, but Club caps you at 300 players and 20 teams.
What one tryout season actually costs
- InfieldHQ: $0, then $50.
- The first two tryouts are free. After that a February weekend is one month of setup and scoring, so $50. Two seasons a year is $100.
- TeamGenius: $1,050.
- The yearly plan, whatever the season length, and 150 athletes is the ceiling of it.
- SkillShark: $750.
- 150 athletes at $5 each, billed annually.
- Sports Evaluations: $750.
- The 150-player minimum at $5 a player on Basic.
- Rizzler: $79.
- One month of Club, if you remember to cancel after the tryout.
Whether it fits your league at all
The questions that rule a product out before any feature matters.
Sports it covers
- InfieldHQ: Partly.
- Softball and baseball. The starter rubrics are built for them, down to 8U.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Over 20 sports, and they publish serving 700-plus organizations.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- More than 30 sports, from baseball to curling. They also evaluate officials.
- Sports Evaluations: Yes.
- Twelve sports. Running since 1999, over a million evaluations.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Baseball, softball, volleyball, football and flag football.
Phones it runs on
- InfieldHQ: Coming.
- iPhone today, and any phone through the browser, which is how evaluators score. The Android app lands before September.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- iOS and Android apps, plus a web scoring app.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- iOS and Android apps, plus web.
- Sports Evaluations: Partly.
- An evaluation app. Platforms are not specified on their site.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Web, iPad and iPhone. No Android app is listed.
Who you call when it breaks on tryout morning
- InfieldHQ: Partly.
- Email us. We are small, and you will get a person, but there is no dedicated success manager.
- TeamGenius: Yes.
- Email support from a Customer Success Manager on Starter+, dedicated and priority on Pro.
- SkillShark: Yes.
- A Customer Success Manager from the $5 tier up.
- Sports Evaluations: Yes.
- On the full-service option they send evaluators to your field.
- Rizzler: Partly.
- Community support on Free, priority support on Pro and Club.
What the others do better
Four things, and three of them are things we simply don't have.
Video of the athlete
TeamGenius captures video and photos at the station. SkillShark puts video in the report card and sells an AI swing score on top of it. We have scores and notes, and that's it. If you want to show a parent the swing rather than describe it, buy one of those. (Want it in InfieldHQ? Tell us.)
A report card the family reads
Both TeamGenius and SkillShark produce branded feedback reports for the athlete, and SkillShark does it on the free tier. Our results are for the people running the tryout. We publish nothing to parents. (Want it in InfieldHQ? Tell us.)
Development tracked across years
TeamGenius keeps lifetime evaluation history; SkillShark has progress and comparison reports; Rizzler turns every rating into a trend line. In InfieldHQ each tryout stands alone today. (Want it in InfieldHQ? Tell us.)
Taking the names off entirely
Sports Evaluations shows evaluators a number and a color, never a name, and will fly neutral evaluators to your field for $55 to $75 a player. If your tryout has a politics problem rather than a software problem, that is the actual answer and no feature list fixes it.
Every one of those is about the evaluation itself, and the evaluation is the part that already works with a clipboard. What breaks is the week after: the scores in a spreadsheet nobody can sort, teams built from a printout, and a season that starts in a different app from the one you just paid for. That's the part we built.
Where we're different
Three things that fall out of the tryout and the season being the same app.
The tryout isn't the last step
The players you just scored are the players you form teams from, and those teams play a schedule with lineups and attendance in the same place. No export, no second subscription, no re-typing a roster.
Offline, in the browser
Evaluators open the link in the invite email and score on whatever phone they brought. TeamGenius and SkillShark both have browser scoring too, but theirs is online only: to score in a dead spot they need a native app on every volunteer's phone. Ours queues in the same browser tab.
You can change your mind about the weights
Retune hitting against speed after you've seen the ranking, and preview exactly what that would do before you commit it. The rubric itself freezes when scoring opens, so the goalposts can't move mid-tryout.
Questions worth asking
What does it actually cost?
Your first two tryouts are free. After that it's $50 a month, flat at any league size, and you cancel between seasons. There's no per-athlete fee, so $50 is $50 whether you evaluate 40 players or a thousand.
How do I pay you?
We invoice you, or you send it by Venmo or PayPal. There's no checkout in the app yet, which also means there's no card on file and nothing to auto-renew. When you're done for the season, tell us and it stops.
What if I lose signal at the field?
Scores queue on the device and send themselves when signal comes back, including after half an hour in a dead spot. Nobody has to remember to sync anything.
Do my evaluators need accounts?
You invite them by email and they score from the link. There's no app to install and nothing for them to learn on the morning of.
Can I keep using SportsEngine or TeamSnap?
Yes, but we don't sync to them. TeamGenius and SkillShark both do, and if keeping your existing platform is non-negotiable, that's a real reason to pick one of them over us. (Want it in InfieldHQ? Tell us.)
Do you do other sports?
Softball and baseball. The starter rubrics go down to 8U. For hockey, soccer or the other twenty, TeamGenius and SkillShark cover them and we don't. (Want it in InfieldHQ? Tell us.)
Do I have to use the rest of InfieldHQ?
No. Creating a tryout sets your league and season up behind the scenes, and you can ignore all of it. Most people don't, because the teams are the reason they ran the tryout.
Run your first tryout in about two minutes
A real multi-station tryout, scored on phones, with ranked results. Then form the teams and run the season in the same place. Your first two are free.
Your first two tryouts are free. Then $50 a month, cancel any time.
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