New Scoring Tutorial - Volleyball

Advanced Scoring is currently a new feature.

While development continues on the Advance Scoring feature, some features (enhanced stats, etc) may not be available yet.

Welcome to Advanced Scoring for Volleyball! Whether you've used it before or just getting started, we're here to help you walk you through and answer any questions you may have! 

Learn how to enable Advanced Scoring for your team, score a game or just check out some FAQs regarding Advanced Scoring!

Enable Advanced Scoring

Let's get your team set up with Advanced Scoring! Keep in mind, once Advanced Scoring is enabled for a team, it stays enabled for that team going forward. However, you can always switch back to Classic Scoring. You cannot switch in the middle of scoring a game. A game started with advanced scoring must be completed with advanced scoring.

1. Login to your sidelineHD Account
2. Select the Team Card
3. Select Settings in the top right corner
4. Select Scoring Settings
5. Select Scoring Module 
6. Select Advanced

Score a Game

Setup Scoring

1. Login to your sidelineHD account on the app
2. Click on the Team Card of the team that you are going to score for
3. On the Schedules tab of the team page, select the Game Card for the game you are scoring
   • If you have not created the game yet or set a lineup, you can do so now by creating a game 
   • Don't forget that you can also set your team's (or opponent's) lineup as well when clicking the Game Card
4. After selecting the Game Card, you'll be brought to the game page
5. Select the Manage Tab in the top left of the screen
6. Select Start Scoring
7. Select which team is Home and which team is serving first.
8. Select Start game

Set Up Your Lineup 

There's 2 ways to set your lineup once you've already started your game.

Score Page

1. On the score page click a position on the court
2. Assign a player from your roster
3. Select the next position and repeat
4. Optional: If you use a Libero, select +Set next to Libero towards the bottom of the page
   • Not sure if you want to use a Libero? Check out our Libero tips at the bottom of this article!

Game tab 

1. Select Game at the top of the page
2. Select My lineup
3. Click on each position and assign a player from your roster
4. Optional: If you use a Libero, select Set libero  and choose the player from your roster. 
   • Not sure if you want to use a Libero? Check out our Libero tips at the bottom of this article!

Start Scoring

Once you've set your lineup, you're ready to start scoring the action!

1. Select Ball served
2. If the serve is an Ace, mark +Ace above the server's number
3. As the rally persists, select +Attack or +Dig for appropriate players as they occur
   • To mark a +Kill, press +Attack twice
     • Marking a kill will automatically end the rally and give your team a point
   • Mark a Block, Opponent Error or Opponent Point by selecting the options at the bottom of the screen
     • Marking a Block or Opponent Error will automatically end the rally and give your team a point.
     • Marking an Opponent Point will automatically end the rally and give your opponent's team a point.
4. After a +Kill has been marked, you can mark additional players who assisted on the play with +Assists or Highlights
   • Don't want to mark Highlights? No problem, just hit Skip
5. After an +Opponent Point has been marked, you can mark additional players if they had an error on the play with or Highlights
   • When marking an error, you'll be ask what type of error it was
     • Ball Handling Error
     • Attack Error
     • Block Error
   • Don't want to mark the type of error or a  Highlight? No problem, just hit Skip
6. When you need to rotate your players, select the arrows underneath the scoreboard
7. Once the set ends, select the 3 dots (...) below the scoreboard and select End set
8. To start the next set, select Start Set 
9. You'll have the opportunity to set a new lineup or use the previous set's lineup.
10. Once the match is over, select the 3 dots (...) below the scoreboard and select End game
11. Select End game to confirm you want to end the game 
    • You'll also be given the option to Pause Scoring

Additional Tips

You've got the hang of it! Let's go through a couple more tips of the Advanced Scoring page! 

• Undo - If you make a mistake you can easily undo the last tagged event by select Undo
• Sub - Need to sub out a player? Use Sub  and select a player from your roster
• Scoring Ledger - Get a quick view of the points scored throughout the game
• Call a Timeout - Select the 3 dots (...) below the scoreboard and select Call a Timeout
• Game Tab - The Game tab gives a view of the stats recorded throughout the game as well as a quick view of your current lineup! 

Libero Usage 

When scoring for Volleyball, your team may choose to use a Libero. You'll want to make sure to setup your Libero in your lineup so they rotate correctly. The Libero setting ensures they don't rotate to the front row during a normal rotation. 

Here's a few helpful SidelineHD Tips when using a Libero in a volleyball match: