Basketball

🏀Simple Basketball standings tracker

Track basketball league standings with wins, losses, and PCT. Great for rec leagues, church leagues, and youth basketball. Schedule and stats too.

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What your basketball standings look like

Default columns for basketball: W, L, PCT, GB. You can customize, add, or remove any column.

#TeamWLPCTGB
1Team 1————
2Team 2————
3Team 3————

Player statistics for basketball

Default stat columns: GP, PTS, REB, AST, STL, BLK. Check Statistics when creating to enable a player stats table on the same share page.

#PlayerGPPTSREBASTSTLBLK
1Player 1——————
2Player 2——————
3Player 3——————

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Basketball schedule

Check Schedule when creating to add games on the same share page. Visitors filter by team or venue automatically, so each team sees only their own games.

DateTimeVenueHome TeamAway Team
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The easiest way to track basketball standings

From youth basketball to adult rec leagues, Simple Standings keeps your basketball standings organized. Add your teams, enter wins and losses after each game, and share a live standings page with your league — all without touching a spreadsheet. It does more than the table, too: tick Schedule to add games with dates, times, and venues that visitors can filter by team, and Statistics to track points, rebounds, and assists. Enable any combination — all three sit on the same shareable link.

How basketball standings work

Basketball standings are ranked on winning percentage — wins divided by games played — with games back (GB) to show the gap to the leader. There are no ties: a level game goes to overtime until somebody wins.

Some competitions turn the record into points instead. FIBA’s rules award 2 classification points for a win and 1 for a loss, with 0 for a game lost by forfeit, so a team that shows up and loses still finishes ahead of one that does not show up. For a team that plays all its games, that ranks exactly the same as winning percentage.

Points for (PF) and points against (PA) sit beside the record, and their difference is the first tiebreaker most rec leagues reach for after head-to-head.

A worked example

Six teams, double round robin — ten games each, thirty in all:

TeamWLPCTGBPFPADIFF
Ballers82.800—612540+72
Swish73.7001598561+37
Dunkers55.5003575570+5
Rim Rockers55.5003580583−3
Nets37.3005548590−42
Hoops28.2006530599−69

Dunkers and Rim Rockers split their two games, so head-to-head does not separate them. Point differential does: +5 against −3.

Rim Rockers scored more points than Dunkers, so a league that broke ties on points scored would have ranked them the other way round. That is why the order belongs in the rules before the season starts.

Common basketball tiebreakers

When teams finish level, these are applied in order until the tie is broken:

  1. Head-to-head record between the tied teams.
  2. Point differential in the games between the tied teams, then across all games.
  3. Points allowed — fewest wins it.
  4. Coin toss.

Rec leagues often cap the point differential a single game can add (at 15 or 20, say) so nobody is rewarded for running up the score late in a blowout.

How basketball seasons are scheduled

  • Gym time sets the schedule. Rec leagues book a gym for a night and run games back to back in fixed slots, one game per team per week.
  • Single or double round robin, then a playoff — often the whole league, seeded by record.
  • Divisions by age or level (youth leagues by grade, adult leagues by A, B, C), each with its own table.
  • 3-on-3 tournaments run short games in round-robin pools, then a bracket.

Setting up basketball standings in Simple Standings

Pick Basketball when you create a league and the standings start from the Simple preset — W and L — or from Advanced: W, L, PCT, and GB, with PCT worked out as W ÷ (W + L). New basketball leagues sort by W. Every column can be renamed, removed, or added to. A computed column can read every typed-in column, plus any computed column to its left.

Advanced computes PCT from W and L as you type. GB is typed in, because a formula only sees its own row and games back compares each team with the leader. Add PF and PA, then a DIFF column from the Difference template.

To sort by record and break ties on differential, add PCT × 1000000 + DIFF. Box scores come set up for four quarters, and the statistics table is prefilled with points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.

Features for basketball leagues

  • Custom columns tailored for basketball (wins, losses, points, and more)
  • Computed columns for auto-calculated stats like win percentage and point differential
  • Shareable read-only link for players, parents, and fans
  • Dark and light mode — set your own colors for each theme
  • Smart schedule filters — visitors filter by team, venue, or any column automatically
  • Public description for announcements, rules, or league info at the top of your page
  • Add links to your share page — waivers, social media, sign-up forms, anything
  • Game schedule with custom columns, dates, times, venues, and scores
  • Player statistics table prefilled for basketball — points, rebounds, and assists
  • Customize colors and fonts for your shareable page
  • QR code sharing and CSV export
  • Your league’s logo and custom pages in your league’s navigation
  • Box scores for every game: the score quarter by quarter, each player’s line, and a page of its own
  • Works on desktop and mobile — no app to install
  • No spreadsheets, no imports — just type it in

How to set up basketball standings

  1. 01

    Create your standings

    Sign up, click “Create new”, and choose Basketball. Default columns (W, L, PCT, GB) are ready to go.

  2. 02

    Add teams and enter results

    Type in your teams names and fill in the stats. Update them after each game or whenever you like.

  3. 03

    Share the standings

    Hit “Share” to get a read-only link. Send it to teams, coaches, parents — anyone who wants to see the standings.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I create basketball standings?
Sign up for a free account, click "Create new", choose your columns (wins, losses, points, etc.), add your teams, and type in the data. No spreadsheets or imports needed.
Can I share my basketball standings with others?
Yes. Every standings you create gets a unique shareable link. Anyone with the link can view the standings — no account required.
Can I make a basketball schedule too?
Yes. Check Schedule when creating and add games with dates, times, venues, and scores. Visitors can filter the schedule by team or venue, so each team sees only their own games.
Can I track basketball stats?
Yes. Check Statistics when creating and you get a stats table with the columns already prefilled for basketball — points, rebounds, and assists. Add computed columns for anything you work out with a formula, and sort by whichever column matters.
Is Simple Standings free for basketball leagues?
Free — standings, schedule, and statistics with no team limits, no game caps, and a public share link included. Public pages carry ads, which is what pays for it; a one-time $9.99 USD removes them from a league, with no subscription and no renewal.
Do basketball scores automatically update the standings?
Only if you want them to. Typing the table in yourself is the default, and it is what most leagues stick with — no syncing, no broken formulas. You can also enter one game at a time and let it do the arithmetic, report a score and have the standings update themselves, or keep a full box score for each game that updates the standings and every player's totals at once.

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