FAQ

Yes.  FreeScore is free basketball software. There are no upfront fees, yearly subscriptions, or monetization through ads, cookies, or data harvesting. It is the full version with all capabilities, and not a limited tier or partial "Trial version" that will time out.

Yes. FreeScore is Windows-native basketball scoreboard software designed to run on a standard Windows PC. 

This has been tested on the following:

• Windows 10

• Windows 10 Pro

• Windows 11

If you successfully use this with any other versions, please email me and I will add them to this list.

No. FreeScore can operate without an internet connection, data connection, or network.  The software is designed to run completely independent of all internet and network needs.

Yes. The scoreboard display can be presented on a monitor, TV, projector, or large gymnasium display. All you need to do is connect that display to your PC or Laptop.

Yes. FreeScore can be used for tournaments, school games, club basketball, community leagues, practices, and other basketball events.

Yes.  Every button on the scorekeeper window has a hotkey.  (These are listed in a pop-up for that window).  You can use a keyboard, or program each of those to your Stream deck or equivalent macro keypad. That way you can have physical buttons for the score table if wanted.

Yes. The software can be used for school basketball games, tournaments, practices, and other gymnasium events.

Yes. The software includes a statistics tracking window for recording team and individual statistics.

There are two data exports that you can do from the program. Both of them are Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) files.

• The Game Control window allows you to generate an "Official clock file" that has all Scoreboard events (Points, fouls, timeouts) logged to the team that initiated them, and timestamped to the period and clock.

• You can get a secondary file from the statistics tracking window. These are more detailed, and tied to the actual player that initiated them and timestamped to the period and clock.  (But these are based on when the statistics keeper logged them, so if that person is slow, you could have a couple second offset from when they actually happened in game.)   Through the software you can track points, fouls, turnovers, blocks, steals, rebounds, assists and personal minutes.

No. FreeScore is designed to run on a standard Windows PC. You can connect the computer to an appropriate TV, monitor, projector, or other display, but you do not need some proprietary custom hardware for any of it.

Yes, but there actually is very little data storage and none of it is persona, and none of it leaves your computer. 

There are only 2 things that reside inside of the program, and all of that data stays local to the computer it is run on. Here is what it stores:  

• Your own custom game setups (Like if you are making some custom junior tournament setup of 4-minute quarters with no bonus and want to reset and reload and rerun those repeatedly for a weekend.)   

• Any team rosters (You can store rosters of your own teams or teams you commonly scrimmage against.  But the only reason you would bother to input this is if you are planning on using the statistics tracking.)

Any timelines of game data only save as Excel files if you choose to export a file at the end of the game.

No.  It has not been designed or tested for that.

The software is not digitally "signed" by Microsoft.  Software "signatures" can be bought from Microsoft, but since this is freely distributed project, there is no money generated. So spending a couple hundred a year from Microsoft on a certificate wasn't really an option.

This pop-up will only happen the first time that you download and run it. Just click on the "More info"  link in the pop-up and select "Run Anyway" to get past it.