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Live scouting

Track the match point by point from the bench: score, player actions, quick corrections and a live box score ready to share.

Live scouting during a match on iPhone
Live scouting during a match

Where it is and who uses it

Open More → Scout Live, or start it from the match page. Tracking requires the Scouting permission, which the founding coach can give to coaches, staff or individual athletes. Other approved members can read the box score.

Creating a match scout

From the match page (recommended)

  1. Open the match and, in Materials, tap Start live scout.
  2. Opponent, date and venue are already filled in. Your roster is the match roster: the whole active roster or the called-up players, excluding athletes with a recorded absence.
  3. Check the opposing team and create the scout. It stays linked to the match.

Version 2.2.0 update: web app available now; iPhone and Android available after updating the app to 2.2.0.

From the Scout Live section

  1. Tap the button to create a new scout.
  2. Info: competition type and name, date, time, venue and referees (optional).
  3. Home and Away: for each side choose your team, an opponent you saved manually, a roster imported from a .dvw file, or a new team with its players.
  4. Tap Create Scout.
From an imported opponent's page you can use Use in new scout: the roster is copied with the numbers and positions available. The copy is editable and doesn't change the original file. See Opponents.

During the match

The scoreboard shows both sides' scores and the set strip. For every rally:

Sets follow volleyball rules: 25 points to win (15 in the fifth set), always with a two-point lead.

Corrections: undo and redo

Gave the point to the wrong player? Tap the back arrow to undo the last action, as long as it belongs to the set still in progress. The forward arrow restores what you just undid. If another device changed the last action, undo is blocked to avoid removing the wrong point.

End of set and end of match

The point that would close a set or the match always asks for explicit confirmation. You also have End set and End match to close manually, for example after a forfeit.

Without a connection

The counter distinguishes actions saved on the device from those confirmed by the server.

The live box score

At the end of the match you get the live box score: result, set strip and each player's points from aces, attacks and blocks, with recorded errors.

In the iPhone and Android apps:

"Live box score" always means the summary generated by VCC live scouting. A full box score from your scout is uploaded as a document on the match page and appears under Uploaded box scores.

Live scouting, .dvw files and statistics

Live scouting records the match points. If your team's scout uses software that exports .dvw files, import the file after the match for full reports and Game analysis.

When the same match has both the live box score and an associated .dvw file, the .dvw file takes precedence in statistics: the two sources are not added together.

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