Player Evaluations and Team Building Made Simple
For Coaches and Leagues Who Want Better Tryouts
Whether you're a coach building your roster or a league coordinator running fair tryouts, Ridge Rank gives you the tools to evaluate players consistently and confidently. Built by a youth sports coach and software developer. Currently in Public Beta: run evaluations and build teams for free.
- Customizable evaluation forms and scoring
- Multi-evaluator collaboration and overall rankings
- Instant player rankings and progress history
- Measure time, distance or speed
- Draft tools and balanced team builder
- Evaluate on any device, no app install required
I built this because I needed it
As a volunteer youth coach and software developer, I personally witnessed the chaos of paper evaluations. My first evaluation I experienced the errors of entering data in the wrong spreadsheet rows. I looked for existing apps, but found they were either too expensive or simply didn't work well. So, I built my own.
What started as a simple prototype I built for my own use has grown into a tool that I wanted to share with other coaches and leagues looking to simplify evaluation creation and team building.
Stephen Freeland
Software Developer
Youth Sports Coach
Built for How You Work
Whether you're running evaluations solo or coordinating across an entire league, Ridge Rank adapts to your needs.
For Coaches
Draft the best team possible with data-driven player evaluations.
- Build your winning roster: Evaluate players during tryouts and use rankings to make confident draft picks.
- Draft with confidence: Bring your rankings into draft night with a live draft board that shows every available player's scores at a glance.
- Collaborate with your coaching staff: Invite assistant coaches to evaluate independently, then combine scores for a complete picture.
- Track player development: Keep evaluation history to see how players improve season over season.
- Eliminate spreadsheet chaos: No more misaligned rows or lost clipboard papers. Everything syncs in real-time.
For Leagues
Run fair, consistent evaluations across your entire organization.
- Build balanced teams automatically: Auto-draft even rosters from tryout scores, or run your live draft night right in the app.
- Standardize your process: Create consistent evaluation forms that every coach uses, ensuring apples-to-apples comparisons.
- Manage multiple evaluators: Have league officials, coaches, or volunteers all contribute scores to the same evaluation event.
- Centralized player directory: Maintain a single roster across seasons. Import once, reuse every year.
Common Scenarios
- Travel team tryouts: Multiple coaches evaluate 50 players to select a 12 player roster.
- Rec league evaluations: A coach evaluates 150 players for their own use at team selection.
- Rec league drafts: A coach uses the draft tool to track which available players are ranked the highest.
- Balanced league evaluations: A league coordinator sets up an evaluation to be used by multiple evaluators and scores are averaged automatically.
- Balanced team building: A league coordinator builds balanced teams automatically based on all evaluations.
- In-Season progress tracking: Use the same evaluation form over and over to track player growth.
- Season-over-season tracking: Compare a player's skills from spring to fall tryouts.
- Competition scoring: Create forms that can be used for any type of competition.
The Complete Player Evaluation & Team Building Platform
Streamline your entire evaluation process with a flexible, web-based solution. From customizable scoring forms and real-time data entry to multi-coach collaboration, timed drills, and automatic team building, Ridge Rank gives coaches and leagues the insights they need to make better decisions.
Customizable Forms
Build evaluation forms that match exactly how you assess players. Organize skills into custom categories (hitting, fielding, attitude), set the importance of the attributes and reuse templates across seasons. Leagues can standardize forms so every coach evaluates the same criteria.
Evaluate Without Apps
No app downloads required. Open Ridge Rank in any browser on your phone, tablet, or laptop and start evaluating immediately. Data syncs in real-time, so you'll never lose a score. Perfect for field-side evaluations where you need quick, reliable data entry.
Evaluator Collaboration
Invite assistant coaches, league officials, or volunteers to contribute their scores. Each evaluator works independently without seeing others' ratings, eliminating bias. The evaluation manager sees all scores compiled together with averaged rankings. Share a simple link or send email invitations to get your team evaluating in minutes.
Ranking Reports
See instant player rankings based on your scoring criteria. A color-coded stats grid highlights strengths and weaknesses across your whole player pool at a glance. Organize players into groups (like "U10 Boys") to filter reports or score within a cohort. Player data persists across seasons, so you can compare tryout performances year over year. Export results to CSV or share with your organization.
Smart Measurements
Time sprints or agility drills with the built-in stopwatch. Scored Measurements like a 40-yard dash are automatically converted into scores using percentile ranking, so raw measurements can count toward overall rankings right alongside your ratings. Works for lower-is-better drills (sprints) and higher-is-better drills (plank holds) alike.
Track Development
Every player gets a progression dashboard that charts their skills evaluation by evaluation. View a single tryout as easy-to-read charts, or watch growth from spring to fall with season-over-season trend lines. Run evaluations multiple times for your own players during the season — perfect for showing players and parents concrete improvement.
Input Types for Every Drill
Score every skill the way it should be measured:
- Rating scales with custom ranges
- Stopwatch timing for speed drills
- Numeric entry for distance and reps
- Yes/no switches and checkboxes
- Dropdown and multiple-choice selects
- Text notes, dates, and times
From Tryout Scores to Final Rosters
The Team Builder turns your evaluation results into teams. Run a live draft or let the auto-draft build balanced rosters for you — every pick backed by real tryout data.
Run Your Draft
See every available player ranked by score on a live draft board. Sort by score, name, or group, and review a player's full stat line before you make the pick.
League Draft Night
Set your draft order and record picks as they happen. Locked picks, a complete draft log, and running team totals keep the night moving and fair.
Balanced Teams in One Click
Auto-draft even rosters using your choice of algorithm — snake, adjusted snake, stratified, or tiered. Teams come out balanced across overall score and individual skills.
Built for Real-World Draft Rules
- Player & coach rules: Keep siblings together, keep certain players apart, and honor coach requests like "my kid on my team."
- Lock picks, auto-draft the rest: Pre-place any player on any team, lock the pick, and let the auto-draft fill in around it.
- What-if scenarios: Clone a session and try a different keeper situation, team count, or roster size before you commit.
- Balance you can verify: A team stats breakdown shows each team's totals by category and skill, so you can prove the teams are fair.
- Export final rosters: Download finished teams to CSV to share with your league.
Get in touch
Questions about your account setup? Ideas for new features? I am actively developing the platform and would love to hear how Ridge Rank can make your evaluations a success.
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