About Boxscored

Why Boxscored exists

I learned to score a baseball game many years ago, and it stuck. A pencil, a scorecard, and nine innings keeps you engaged with every pitch — and I've always believed a completed scorecard is the best souvenir a game can give you.

My fandom went a bit dormant for a while, the way it does. What brought it roaring back was watching my two sons fall in love with playing the game. I became the dad who runs GameChanger for the team — every play recorded, every stat kept — and along the way I got scorekeeping lessons from a coach friend who also happens to be the official scorekeeper for the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp. Seeing baseball through my kids' eyes, including trips to Cooperstown Dreams Park with each of them, rekindled everything.

What struck me was how much my boys loved following their own stats — and how every big-league app I tried was built the other way around: games first, teams first, players a distant third. Nobody drew a real scorecard. I'd had the idea for years, but for someone who isn't a full-time developer, building it always felt too big.

The flight home

This summer, on the flight home from my younger son's Cooperstown tournament, I started writing the spec anyway — and with today's AI tools doing the heavy lifting, I had a working prototype before the plane landed. A few weeks of nights and iterations later, Boxscored was following live games, drawing scorecards, and lighting up 🔥 icons next to hot players. (As a Red Sox fan, the run into the All-Star break gave those icons a workout.)

Why it's free

Boxscored is free while it grows. It's a one-person project that costs me about what a streaming subscription does to run, and I pay it because I wanted this to exist. No ads, and your data is never sold. If that ever needs to change, you'll hear it from me first.

If you love this game, I hope Boxscored feels like it was made by someone who does too — because it was. Tell me what would make it better.

— Trey