🌐Jersey Watch alternative
Comparing Jersey Watch to Simple Standings: a full league website with registration and payments, versus a free standings page you can share in a minute.
Why Simple Standings
Jersey Watch is a well-built, fairly priced product, and if your league needs a real website — custom domain, online registration, payment collection, mass communication — it is a reasonable choice and Simple Standings is not a substitute for it. The question worth asking is whether you need all of that. Jersey Watch charges $348 a year and expects you to build and publish a schedule before results and standings appear on your site. Simple Standings does one thing: you type your standings into a table and share a link. It is free, there is no website to build, and no schedule is required.
How it compares
| Feature | Simple Standings | Jersey Watch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $19 first month, then $348/year |
| Standings | Type results directly into the table | Computed from results entered against a published schedule |
| Schedule required first | No — standings work on their own | Yes — schedules must be published before adding results |
| League website | No — a single shareable page | Yes — full website builder, included |
| Custom domain | Not available | Included in the subscription |
| Registration & payments | Not available | Yes — 3.5% + $1 per transaction |
| Viewer accounts | None needed | None needed for the public site |
Jersey Watch pricing and features verified from jerseywatch.com/pricing, August 2026. Their pricing may have changed since — check their site for current figures. Third-party sites still list older Basic/Plus/Pro tiers that no longer appear on their pricing page.
Features
- Free — no subscription, no per-organization fee
- No schedule required before you get a standings table
- Type results straight into the table instead of entering them per scheduled game
- Share a read-only link immediately, with no site to build or publish
- Viewers need no account and no app
- Columns prefilled for 53 sports, with your own formula columns for tiebreakers
Frequently asked questions
- What does Jersey Watch cost?
- Jersey Watch publishes its pricing openly: $19 for the first month at launch, then $348 per year (they describe it as $29/month), with payment processing at 3.5% + $1 per transaction and no setup fee or contract. Simple Standings is free.
- Does Jersey Watch do standings?
- Yes, and it does them well — standings display on your website, sortable per division, and update as you add game results. The difference is what has to exist first: divisions, teams, and a published schedule.
- When is Jersey Watch the better choice?
- When you need a league website on your own domain, online registration, or payment collection. Simple Standings does none of those things and is not trying to. If a website is the goal, Jersey Watch is the more sensible purchase.
- Can I try Simple Standings without committing?
- There is nothing to commit to. It is free, and every new account starts with a sample league already set up so you can see what your share page looks like before entering anything real.
Just need the standings?
Free, no website to build, shareable in about a minute.