A coach's guide to streaming games from your gym
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Streaming should cost a coach five minutes before tip-off and nothing after. If it costs more than that, it will not survive past the third game of the season.
One fixed camera beats a followed camera
A single phone mounted at centre court, elevated a few rows, covering both baskets in one frame, is the setup that works unattended. Panning requires a person, and the person you assign will miss the second half.
- Centre court, opposite the benches, three to six rows up.
- Landscape, locked exposure and focus, Do Not Disturb on.
- Powered from a battery pack from the opening tip.
Test the gym's connection before the season, not before the game
Run an upload speed test from the mounting position in every gym you play in and write the numbers down. Roughly 3-5 Mbps of stable upload carries a clean 720p stream. Where the Wi-Fi is unreliable, cellular usually wins in a full gym.
Assign it to a role, not a person
Make starting the stream part of the scorekeeper's or team manager's pre-game checklist alongside the scorebook. Tied to a role, it happens every game. Tied to whichever parent volunteered in October, it stops in December.
Decide what families get after the game
The value to your program is what parents receive without chasing you for it: the recording, and the season record around it. Today PROSCORE gives families the schedule, practice feedback, evaluations and coach-logged basketball stats for free. Automatic clip delivery and live broadcast are on the roadmap, not features we claim now.
No seat licences, no contract
Programs stall because the pricing model requires a commitment before anyone has seen it work. On PROSCORE the family experience is free, so a program can run schedules, practice feedback, evaluations and basketball stats for one team and expand from there.