Introducing Tournament Brackets, Player Evaluations, Game Sheets, and Attendance Tracking
Four new standalone tools for coaches and organizers: tournament brackets, player evaluations, game sheets, and attendance tracking.
Forecheck Hockey started as a skills education site with an interactive rink board. Over time, the rink board grew to include scorekeeping, rosters, season tracking, and practice planning. But coaches kept asking for tools that exist outside the rink board — tools for the administrative side of running a team or league. Today we are releasing four new standalone tools: a Tournament Bracket Generator, Player Evaluations, Game Sheets, and an Attendance Tracker.
Each tool lives on its own page with its own URL. Each works independently of the rink board. And like everything else on Forecheck Hockey, each is free, requires no account, and stores all data locally in your browser.
Tournament Bracket Generator
If you have ever organized a tournament, you know the bracket is the thing everyone asks about. Who plays who? When? Where do we stand? A shared bracket link saves a tournament director from answering the same questions fifty times.
The Tournament Bracket Generator at /tournament/ supports four formats:
Single elimination is the classic format. Lose once and you are out. The bracket is auto-generated based on the number of teams, with byes assigned when the count is not a power of two. Enter scores as games finish and the bracket advances automatically. SVG connector lines show how matches feed into the next round.
Double elimination gives every team a second chance. Teams that lose drop to the losers bracket and can fight their way back to the final. The bracket handles the if-necessary game in the championship round. This format is popular for youth tournaments where organizers want to guarantee every team plays at least two games.
Round robin is for leagues or tournament pool play. Every team plays every other team. The tool generates the schedule, tracks results, and calculates standings based on wins, losses, ties, goals for, and goals against.
Pool play + elimination combines the best of both. Split teams into 2-4 pools for round-robin play, then advance the top teams from each pool into a single elimination bracket. Serpentine seeding ensures competitive balance across pools. When all pool games are complete, one click advances the top teams with proper cross-pool seeding.
The tournament includes a sidebar with live status dashboard, calendar schedule view, standings, announcements, rules, and embedded livestream viewer. Organizers can post rich-text announcements, set tournament rules with templates, and embed YouTube or Twitch streams for each game.
Brackets can be shared via QR code or URL, exported as PNG images or print-ready PDFs, and presented fullscreen on a projector. All bracket data can be exported and imported as JSON for backup or device transfer.
Player Evaluations
Tryouts are stressful for everyone involved. Coaches need to evaluate dozens of players across multiple skating sessions and make fair, defensible decisions about roster spots. Paper evaluation forms get lost, handwriting gets illegible, and comparing players across different evaluation sessions is difficult.
The Player Evaluations tool at /evaluations/ provides a structured digital evaluation form with 7 skill categories and 32 individual ratings:
- Skating — Forward stride, backward skating, crossovers, stops, agility, speed
- Shooting — Wrist shot, slap shot, snap shot, accuracy, release
- Passing — Tape-to-tape accuracy, saucer passes, receiving, give-and-go
- Stickhandling — Puck control, deking, protection, hand speed
- Hockey sense — Positioning, anticipation, decision-making, awareness
- Physicality — Compete level, board play, shot blocking, net-front presence
- Character — Coachability, effort, leadership, communication
Each criterion is rated on a consistent scale. After evaluating multiple players, the radar chart comparison view lets you overlay two or more players to see where their strengths and weaknesses differ. This is invaluable during tryout deliberations when coaches need to compare a strong skater with average hands against an average skater with excellent hockey sense.
The tool generates print-ready scouting reports that summarize a player's ratings, strengths, areas for improvement, and coach notes. These reports are useful for player feedback meetings, parent discussions, and development tracking over a season.
All evaluation data is stored in your browser's localStorage. No player information is ever transmitted to a server. This matters when you are storing assessments of minors — the data never leaves the evaluating coach's device unless they explicitly export and share the JSON file.
Game Sheets
Rec leagues, beer leagues, and informal tournaments often need game sheets but do not have access to the electronic scoring systems used in sanctioned play. The Game Sheet tool at /game-sheet/ generates clean, official-format game sheets that can be filled out digitally and printed.
Each game sheet includes:
- Team rosters for both home and away with jersey numbers, names, and positions
- Scoring summary with goal scorer, assists, period, time, and goal type (even strength, power play, shorthanded, empty net, penalty shot)
- Penalty log with player, infraction, duration, period, and time
- Shootout tracking with per-round shooter and result
- Shots on goal by period for both teams
- Game information fields for date, time, venue, league, division, and officials
The game sheet can be imported and exported as JSON. This lets a scorekeeper prepare the rosters and game info in advance, load it at game time, fill in the scoring and penalties as the game progresses, and export the completed sheet afterward. Print it for the league's records, email it to the team managers, or archive it locally.
Attendance Tracker
Tracking attendance is one of those tasks that every coach does but nobody enjoys. A notebook in the rink bag, a spreadsheet on the phone, a mental note that never quite sticks. The Attendance Tracker at /attendance/ replaces all of that with a simple grid.
Set up your team roster once — player names and jersey numbers. Then add events as they come: practice on Tuesday, game on Thursday, optional skate on Sunday. For each event, mark each player present or absent. The tool calculates attendance percentages per player and per event automatically.
This data is useful beyond just knowing who showed up. Attendance patterns help coaches identify players who might need a check-in. They support conversations with parents about commitment. And in competitive programs, attendance data can factor into ice time decisions.
Like all Forecheck Hockey tools, the attendance tracker requires no account. Data lives in localStorage. There is nothing to log into, nothing to sync, nothing to pay for.
Data Privacy Across All Tools
A consistent theme across all four tools is local-first data storage. Tournament brackets, player evaluations, game sheets, and attendance records all stay in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Nothing is shared unless you explicitly export a JSON file and send it to someone.
This is especially important for tools that handle player data. Youth hockey organizations are increasingly aware of data privacy obligations. By keeping all data on-device, Forecheck Hockey avoids creating a centralized database of minor player information. The tradeoff is that clearing your browser data deletes your records — so use the JSON export feature if you need to preserve anything long-term.
Using the Tools Together
While each tool is standalone, they complement each other naturally. A tournament director might use the Bracket Generator for the tournament structure, Game Sheets for each game, and the rink board for live scorekeeping. A coach running tryouts might use Player Evaluations during skating sessions and the Attendance Tracker to log who showed up for each session.
None of the tools require the others. Use what you need and ignore what you do not.
Get Started
All four tools are available now:
No sign-up. No download. Open the page and start using it.