Run your football club
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Football plays about ten games, once a week, and that arithmetic runs the whole sport. One date is a tenth of the season, so a date that goes unfilled is a week nobody played. Underneath it, a high school player’s quarters accumulate against a limit their state sets, over a week their state defines, and somebody keeps that count by hand.
What a football season asks you to keep track of
Two things, and neither is the kind you look up once. The first is a schedule short enough to count on your fingers, where every entry carries a Friday night around it and there is nowhere to hide a date you could not fill. The second is a running total per player: at high school level, playing time is capped by quarters over a week rather than by games over a season, so a coach who uses an athlete at two levels is holding a number for every one of them and the number resets on a day somebody else chose.
An unfilled date is a lost week
Every sport rearranges games. Football cannot absorb it. A rained-off soccer Saturday gets replayed on a Wednesday because there are thirty other dates to hide it in, and a football date that stays empty is simply gone. Which is why this is the one sport in our research with a real market for open dates: state associations in Tennessee, South Carolina and Mississippi run official open-date boards, a coaches association in Texas runs listings, regional media run them, and a consultancy sells a search tool for finding somebody to play on an open high school Friday. Somebody has built a business on this problem, which is a stronger statement about how badly it is felt than anything we could write.
The number is per player, per week, and it is nobody’s national number
Kentucky allows eight quarters a week, counted Friday through Thursday. Iowa allows eight, counted Sunday through Saturday. Georgia allows six in any seven days for a player used at both varsity and sub-varsity level. Arizona allows five, with a six-quarter exception for one classification. Oregon allows five at its largest classification and six below it. Michigan counts a light week against a player’s allowed games instead of capping quarters. Kentucky also publishes a log form, and adds a wrinkle nobody else does: a quarter of six minutes or less counts as half a quarter, a longer one counts as a whole one.
Who sets that number, and where it is written
Your state association, in its own handbook, which is why the figures above disagree with each other rather than varying around a standard. There is no national number to fall back on: the federation writes the playing rules and the states write the participation limits. So read your association’s handbook rather than a rule book, check whether your classification has a figure of its own, and check the week boundary at least as carefully as the number, because a coach who assumes Sunday to Saturday in a Friday-to-Thursday state is wrong in exactly the weeks it costs something. If your association publishes its own log form, use theirs. A form the people who enforce the rule already accept is worth more than a tidier one.
On the club side, the division may be weight as well as age
Youth football is the sport where a program’s whole registration shape depends on a choice its league made, and there is no governing body that made it for everybody. Some leagues run age-and-weight divisions, and the machinery is real: a minimum weight as well as a maximum, an official weigh-in before the season that settles eligibility, a player identification card as the only accepted proof of age, a certification form filed with the roster for anyone near their limit and carried by the head coach to every game, and one attempt on the scale rather than two. Most of youth football, somewhere near four fifths of it nationally, registers on age alone. That is why we are not going to tell you what your divisions are. The sport does not have one answer, and anyone who states one confidently is describing a fifth of it.
What a roster can say about a football player, and what it cannot
Football has more positions than any sport we support, and the list is organized by unit whether a piece of software says so or not: five that play offense, four that play defense, and the kicker. It is also the sport where one label per player fits worst. A starting cornerback who lines up at receiver and returns kicks is not an exception at this level, that is a normal Friday. Rostered records one position for an athlete, so what the roster tells you is where somebody is listed, not everything they are asked to do. Better that you read it here than work it out in week two.
Rostered does not count quarters and it does not score your game. Football is probably the sport where a reader most assumes otherwise, because a scoreboard is the first thing anybody pictures, so it is worth saying plainly: live scoring is not something this app does for football today. The quarters count is better off where the rule lives anyway, on the form your association publishes, in front of the person who has to sign it.
What Rostered holds is the ten weeks and the people in them. One schedule for the whole program, with every game and practice attached to the teams it concerns, so a family with a varsity player and a freshman sibling sees their own week rather than the club’s. Families subscribe once in Google, Apple or Outlook and the feed keeps updating, which is the part that earns its keep when a date is settled late. When it is finally settled, it goes in one place and moves for everybody, instead of into a text thread that reaches whoever was in it last season.
What football clubs get
- Positions
- Quarterback, Running Back, Wide Receiver, Tight End, Offensive Lineman, Defensive Lineman, Linebacker, Cornerback, Safety, Kicker
- Youth ages
- 5 to 18
- Governing bodies
- USA Football, Pop Warner, NFHS
- Also included
- Polls, volunteer jobs, release forms, in-app club email, translation, locations with the forecast.
- Cost to families
- Free, always. No ads.