# 🌐 Simple Standings vs Jersey Watch

> Jersey Watch is a league website with registration for $348 a year. Simple Standings is a free standings page. What each does, what each costs, and which one your league actually needs.

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Last updated: 2026-11-08

By The Simple Standings team. Facts about other products checked 2026-11-08 on their own pages (Sources below).

## The short answer

- **Pick Jersey Watch if you need a league website and online registration.** It builds the site, takes payments, and its team will set it up for you.
- **Pick Simple Standings if you need a standings table and a link.** Free, no website to build, no schedule required first.
- **Price:** Jersey Watch has no free plan: $19 for the first month, then $348 a year. Simple Standings is free with ads, or $9.99 once per league with none.
- **Standings:** on Jersey Watch they only come from games made with its Schedule Generator. On Simple Standings you type into the table.

## Simple Standings vs Jersey Watch, feature by feature

| Feature | Simple Standings | Jersey Watch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Price | Free, every feature; $9.99 USD once per league removes the ads | $19 for the first month, then $348 a year; no free plan; they call $348 the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes, every feature | No. A free account to explore; you pay when you go live |
| Ads | On the public page, unless you pay $9.99 once | None on your organization’s pages |
| How standings are made | Type results into the table, or add one game at a time | Computed from results added to published Schedule Generator games |
| Hand-built schedules | Standings work with or without one | A Basic Schedule gets no standings |
| Tiebreakers | Your own sort order and formula columns | Win percentage, then head-to-head, then differential |
| Schedule import from a spreadsheet | Yes: CSV, Excel or pasted rows | Not documented; their team adds pre-made schedules |
| Schedule and standings export | CSV of every table, free | Schedule export marked “Coming soon”; no standings export documented |
| League website and custom domain | No. A share page with custom pages | Yes, custom domain included |
| Registration and payments | Not available | Yes: 3.5% + $1 per transaction |
| Player statistics | Built-in table, prefilled per sport | Not their focus, by their own description |
| Setup help | Self-serve, about a minute; a sample league to start from | They set up your website and registration for free |

## Different products for different jobs

Jersey Watch is a website for a sports organization: pages, registration forms, payments, announcements, and a schedule and standings module. Its own pages describe it as built for volunteer-led youth organizations that need a website and registration, and for that it is fairly priced and helpful. Their team will even set the site up for you.

Simple Standings is one page: a standings table, a game schedule and a player stats table on a link anyone can open. There is no site to build, so there is nothing to set up beyond typing in your teams.

## How standings work on each

On Jersey Watch, standings come from games created with the Schedule Generator. You generate the season, publish it, then add each result, and the division table updates (win percentage, then head-to-head, then differential). A schedule you enter by hand as a Basic Schedule does not get standings. If your league already has a fixture list from the venue, their help centre suggests a workaround or asks you to send it to their team.

On Simple Standings you type the table directly, or add one game at a time and let it count. Columns come prefilled for your sport, and you can add your own formula columns for tiebreakers like run differential or points per game.

## Who should pick Jersey Watch

- Youth organizations that need a public website, online registration and payments in one place.
- Boards that want someone to set the site up for them.
- Leagues that want their own domain and no ads on any page.
- Organizers who want announcements to families in the same tool as the website.

## Where Simple Standings falls short

- No website, no custom domain, no registration and no payments.
- No announcements or messaging to families.
- Ads on the public page unless you pay the $9.99; Jersey Watch shows none.
- Nobody sets it up for you. It is quick, but it is self-serve.

## Frequently asked questions

### What does Jersey Watch cost?

Its pricing page lists $19 for the first month, then $348 a year (they describe it as $29 a month), with no setup fee and no contract. Online payments cost 3.5% + $1 per transaction. Its comparison pages call $348 the entry plan; no other tier is published.

### Does Jersey Watch have a free plan?

No. You can create a free account to explore every feature without a card, and you pay when the site goes live. The schedule generator is free to use, but publishing the schedule and tracking standings are paid.

### Can I move my standings from Jersey Watch to Simple Standings?

Yes, by copying the table. Jersey Watch documents no standings export, but its standings are a table on your public website: select it, copy, and paste it into Simple Standings’ import. The Jersey Watch switching guide has the steps.

### Can I use Simple Standings alongside a Jersey Watch site?

Yes. Add the Simple Standings link to your site’s menu if you want a table you can type into, or a stats table, without moving registration.

## Sources, checked 2026-11-08

- [Jersey Watch pricing](https://www.jerseywatch.com/pricing)
- [Jersey Watch FAQ](https://www.jerseywatch.com/faq)
- [Jersey Watch help: How to manage standings](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/197-how-to-manage-standings)
- [Jersey Watch help: Creating schedules and events](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/78-creating-schedules-and-events)
- [Jersey Watch help: Schedule generator overview](https://help.jerseywatch.com/article/144-schedule-generator-overview)
- [Jersey Watch schedule generator page (export marked "Coming soon")](https://www.jerseywatch.com/tools/sports-schedule-generator)
- [Why Jersey Watch](https://www.jerseywatch.com/why-jersey-watch)
- [Jersey Watch vs TeamSnap (Jersey Watch’s page)](https://www.jerseywatch.com/compare/jersey-watch-vs-teamsnap)

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