How to Keep Lacrosse Stats with Tap Live Stats

Lacrosse is a game of possessions: faceoffs, ground balls, clears and turnovers decide who gets the ball, and goals and saves decide what they do with it. Tap Live Stats lets you keep a full box score for both teams on your phone, one tap per play, and keeps the score as goals go in. This guide covers recording each play, the score, and reading the box score column by column.

Before the game

Open Tap Live Stats, tap Track Player Stats, then Start New Game and choose Lacrosse. Enter the home and visiting team names, check the date and time, and tap OK. Your game appears in the list; tap it to start recording.

Have both rosters' jersey numbers handy, including the goalies and your faceoff specialists.

What you can record

The buttons are grouped by what they do:

  • Scoring: Goal, Assist, Shot on Goal and Shot Wide.
  • Possession: Ground Ball, Turnover, Faceoff Win and Faceoff Loss.
  • Defense: Caused TO (caused turnover), Interception and Save, the goalie's button.
  • Clears: Clear Success and Clear Fail.
  • Fouls: Technical Foul and Personal Foul.

Recording a play

Every play takes the same three steps:

  1. Tap the button for what just happened, such as Goal.
  2. On the number pad, check the team. The pad names the team at the top; tap the other team's button to switch.
  3. Tap the player's jersey number and tap the green check mark.

The red ✗ closes the pad without saving, and the backspace key fixes a mistyped digit. Recorded plays appear in a list at the top of the screen, newest first.

Quick-select jerseys

Below the keypad are five quick-select slots. The first five jersey numbers you record fill them, and after that one tap on a slot enters that number. To put the number you have typed into a slot instead, tap the slot before you confirm. Loading your regulars into the slots early makes a fast game much easier to keep up with.

The number pad for a Goal by number 5 of the Riverside Rockets
The number pad for a Goal by number 5 of the Riverside Rockets
A lacrosse game in progress, with the action buttons below the list of recorded plays
A lacrosse game in progress, with the action buttons below the list of recorded plays

Keeping the score

Goal adds one to the scoring team's score automatically, and deleting a goal takes it back off. No other button changes the score.

If the score on the screen drifts from the scoreboard, tap the team's score and type the correct number.

Recording common plays

Each button records one player's part of a play, so a play that involves two players takes two entries. Recording them the way a statistician would keeps both teams' box scores honest:

  • An assisted goal: Goal for the scorer, then Assist for the passer. A goal already counts as a shot on goal, so never add Shot on Goal to it.
  • A saved shot: Shot on Goal for the shooter, then Save for the goalie.
  • A faceoff: Faceoff Win for the player who won it, Faceoff Loss for the player who lost it, and Ground Ball for whoever picks up the ball.
  • A caused turnover: Caused TO for the defender who forced it, then Turnover for the player who lost the ball.
  • A clear: Clear Success or Clear Fail for the player carrying or passing the ball over the line.

Fixing mistakes

Wrong player? Tap the pencil next to the play and enter the right jersey number. Wrong button or wrong team? Tap the trash can to remove the play and record it again; deleting a goal takes it off the score. The box score updates to match.

If you are signed in, deleting a play also deletes its backed-up copy, so it does not come back, and edits are backed up the next time your game is.

Reading the box score

Open View Stats on the game for a box score of every player on both teams, sorted by jersey number, with a TOTAL row for each team. Here is what each column means and how it is calculated:

  • G, A, SOG, SW: goals, assists, shots on goal (goals included) and shots wide.
  • GB, TO, FW, FL: ground balls, turnovers, faceoffs won and faceoffs lost.
  • CTO, INT, SV: caused turnovers, interceptions and goalie saves.
  • CS, CF: successful and failed clears.
  • TF, PF: technical fouls and personal fouls.

A dash means the player had none of that stat, or no attempts for a percentage.

The lacrosse box score for both teams, with goals, assists, shots and ground balls
The lacrosse box score for both teams, with goals, assists, shots and ground balls

Sharing the stats

Tap Save PDF on the box score to create a report with both teams' full stats and totals. The PDF is made on your phone, so it works even without a signal, and you can send it to the team as soon as the game ends.

If you are signed in, your games are backed up to your account whenever you open the Track Player Stats list, and Save to Cloud on the recording screen backs them up right away. Cloud Stats, on the Track Player Stats page, then has a Lacrosse tab with one row per player per game and every box-score column. Filter by jersey number to see one player's season, or tap Export CSV for a spreadsheet. A free account shows its active games; Premium includes archived games too.

Tips for accurate stats

  • Record every faceoff and ground ball. Possession stats are what lacrosse coaches look at first.
  • Watch the goalies. Saves are the easiest stat to forget.
  • Check the score against the scoreboard at each quarter break.
  • Not sure what a screen does? Tap the ? at the top of the recording screen for a short walkthrough.

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