Guide
Getting started with Boxscored
A ten-minute tour of the whole app. Boxscored is built around one idea: you pick the players, and the app keeps their games in front of you. Everything else hangs off that list.
1. Install and sign in
Open app.boxscored.app in your phone's browser and add it to your home screen (steps for iPhone, Android, and desktop). Sign in with Google or with a code sent to your email. There's no password to remember, and your watchlist follows you to any device you sign in on.
2. Build your watchlist
Tap the search button at the top of the Watchlist. You can add players three ways:
- By name. Type a few letters and tap the star next to the player.
- By team. Browse any club's roster and star the players you want.
- By school. Pick a college to see every current major leaguer who played there.
You can also follow from the Leaders tab or any player page. To remove someone, swipe his card left and tap Unfollow, or use the ··· menu on the card. There's no limit on how many players you follow.
3. Read a player card
Each card shows the player's line for the date at the top of the screen. During a game it updates about once a minute.
- Status. Live with the inning, Final, a start time for later games, or a note like "No recent game." A reliever who hasn't pitched yet reads "In the bullpen."
- The line. Hitters show AB, H, HR, RBI, R, SB, and season AVG. Pitchers show IP, H, ER, BB, K, and pitch count. Tap the i beside any label for a definition.
- The ring around the photo. Red means he's at the plate, orange on deck, blue on base, and green on the mound.
- 🔥 and 🧊. A hot or cold streak. Tap the badge to see why (for example, "Batting .409 over the last 6 games"). The exact rules are in the stats glossary.
Use the chips under the title to show only live players, hitters, or pitchers, or to sort by name instead of game status. The arrows beside the date page back through past days, and a today button brings you back.
4. Player pages
Tap any player for his page:
- Today's scorecard: each plate appearance drawn as a diamond. Tap a box for the play in words. How to read it.
- Season to date and his last 10 games, with a tap-through to any game.
- Advanced stats: WAR, wRC+, wOBA, ISO, and walk and strikeout rates for hitters; FIP, BABIP, and strand rate for pitchers; OAA for fielders. Every label has a plain-English definition.
- Contact and discipline from Statcast, plus a luck check that compares his average or slugging with what his quality of contact would predict.
- Background: hometown, high school, college, draft, and debut.
- Each game's page also shows fantasy points under ESPN's default scoring.
5. Games
The Games tab lists every game on the selected date. Live games show the inning, the bases, the count, and the outs, and flag when one of your players is involved. Tap a game for its full scorebook:
- Each team's lineup with every plate appearance drawn inning by inning, or a classic box score if you prefer, with the linescore on top.
- Key plays, once the game is final: the three plays that moved win probability the most, in the order they happened.
- A win-probability chart for the whole game and win probability added (WPA) for each player.
- Every pitcher's line and a bullpen report: each reliever's pitch counts over the past few days, so you can see who's likely rested and who's been worked hard.
- For finished games, Export PDF makes a printable scorecard.
6. Teams
Standings by division, with the playoff picture for each league. Clubs that have clinched or been eliminated get the standard marks (the key appears once the first club clinches). Tap a team for its latest game, upcoming schedule, and roster, where you can star players onto your watchlist.
You can also follow a team. That doesn't add its players to your list; it turns on game alerts for that club, which you can set for before, during, and after each game.
7. Leaders
League leaderboards for hitters (HR, AVG, OPS, RBI, SB, WAR) and pitchers (ERA, WHIP, strikeouts, wins, saves, WAR). Spot someone climbing and follow him in one tap.
8. Alerts
Tap the bell to turn on notifications. On iPhone you must add Boxscored to your home screen first; that's an Apple requirement for web apps.
| Alert | What it sends |
|---|---|
| At-bat result | Every plate appearance for a hitter you follow, as it happens. |
| Pitcher entering | The moment a pitcher you follow takes the mound. |
| Probable start | A morning heads-up when a pitcher you follow is starting that day. |
| End-of-game line | The final stat line once his game ends. |
| Game-start reminder | A nudge before first pitch. Off by default. |
| Team: before | Lineups and first pitch for a team you follow. |
| Team: during | Every run scored, plus close-game moments. |
| Team: after | The final score and your players' lines. |
Set defaults for each alert type, override them player by player, and set quiet hours when nothing comes through.
9. Share
Share buttons turn a player's line, a game's linescore, or its win-probability chart into an image you can drop into a text or group chat.
10. In the offseason
With no games, there are no live lines or alerts. Your watchlist and settings stay saved, final 2026 stats, leaderboards, and standings stay up until the 2027 season starts, and you can still page back to past dates and open any game's full scorebook. It's a good stretch to learn the scorecard and the stats. More in the FAQ.