Custom Scoreboards & Timing Systems

The single thing that decides which scoreboard you need is the distance from the board to the furthest seat. Everything else follows from that. Measure it and we will size the board so the numbers read clearly from the back row.

Scoring layouts are built around the sport, so the first thing we ask is what gets played in the space.

• Basketball — score, period, team fouls, bonus, timeouts, and a game clock. Shot clocks are usually separate units and can be quoted alongside.
• Football and soccer — score, quarter or half, game clock, down and distance on football boards.
• Baseball and softball — score by inning, balls, strikes, outs, and often a hit or error indicator.
• Volleyball and wrestling — set or period scoring, match counts, and smaller formats than a court board.
• Multi-sport — one board configured to switch between the sports your space hosts. Worth specifying up front rather than discovering later that it only does one.

Tell us every sport the venue hosts, not just the main one. It is far cheaper to buy one board that covers all of them than two boards that each cover half.

Scoreboards are built to order, which means the lettering on them is yours rather than generic.

Captions and school name. Home and visitor labels, your school or team name across the top, and your colours. This is the part that makes a board look like it belongs in your gym rather than like it came off a shelf.

Sponsor panels. Many schools add advertising panels above or below the scoring area and sell them to local businesses. For a lot of athletic departments the sponsorship pays for a meaningful share of the board itself. If that is something your booster club or district would use, tell us and we will quote it with the panel space built in.

Send us the wording you want. Vector artwork is ideal for logos, but we can work from whatever you have.

• Mounting. Wall-mounted inside a gym, pole-mounted on a field, or fixed to an existing structure such as a press box or fence line. If you need a new pole, that gets quoted with the board.
• Power. Boards need an electrical supply at the mounting point. Outdoor installations frequently need new conduit run to the pole, which is site work rather than equipment. Tell us whether power is already there.
• Control. Most boards run from a wireless handheld controller, which avoids running cable from the scorer's table to the board. Wired control is still available where a facility prefers it.
• Replacing an existing board? Say so. Sometimes the existing pole, wiring or mounting hardware can be reused, which takes real money off the install.