Point Zapper runs your pickleball round robin end to end — balanced partners, court assignments, byes that rotate fairly — then takes scores from the players standing on the court and re-ranks everybody between games. The clipboard stays in the car.
Free to use. The companion app to CourtZapper — book the court there, run what happens on it here.
No signal at the courts — saved on this phone and queued. Syncs the moment you reconnect. Every edit keeps a timestamped history.
Why Point Zapper
Organizing eleven people across three courts for six rounds used to mean a spreadsheet, a pen, and one person who never gets to play. This does that part.
Feed it DUPR ratings or self-assessments and it builds teams with the tightest skill spread it can find. Prefer chaos? Switch to fully random. Want to overrule it? Drag two names together and it schedules around your choice.
01Any player in the match can tap a score in. One player from the other team confirms it. Every edit keeps a timestamped history, so nobody quietly turns a 9 into an 11.
02Win-loss, points for, points against, and differential re-sort the moment a score lands — on every phone in the group, not just the organizer’s.
03Lifetime wins, losses, win rate, average winning and losing score, and total differential across every group and every night you have played.
04Your Thursday night regulars, the 50+ crew, the mixed ladder — join as many as you want. Each has its own roster, chat, leaderboard, and admins.
05Simple by design
Name the night, pick doubles or singles, set divisions and a point target. Under a minute on the tailgate.
Pull regulars from your group, search the app, or quick-add whoever showed up as a guest — no account needed.
Round 1 lands on every phone with partners, court numbers, and who sits. Scores go in as games end.
Last score posts, tiebreakers resolve, placements lock, and everyone’s lifetime record updates.
Formats
Every format handles odd headcounts, late arrivals, and someone leaving after round four without wrecking the schedule.
The default. Everyone plays everyone, or everyone plays a set number of rounds — fixed partners for the whole night, or fresh partners each round. Odd headcount is fine: byes rotate so nobody sits twice before the rest have sat once.
Partners change every round and you keep your own point total, not your team’s. Games run to a fixed number of points and every point you win goes on your card. The social-play format that works with any headcount.
Same individual scoring as Americano, but pairings are seeded off the live leaderboard: after each round the leader partners the fourth place player against second and third. The field tightens as the night goes on.
Inside the app
Scroll to follow the night
6 rounds · 22 min cap per round · byes rotate automatically
Format, divisions, pairing method, rotation, point target, and court count on one screen.
Registered players carry their DUPR in. Guests get added in two taps by whoever is organizing.
Partners recalculated each round so DUPR spread stays under 0.40
Partners, courts, and time slots for the round — plus who has the bye and when it moves.
No signal at the courts — saved on this phone and queued. Syncs the moment you reconnect. Every edit keeps a timestamped history.
Thumb-sized steppers, a confirmation from the other team, and a dispute button if it goes wrong.
| Player | W–L | PF | +/− |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1Marisol Vega | 5–1 | 62 | +21 |
| 2Deshawn Pryor | 5–1 | 58 | +14 |
| 3Junie Kowalczyk | 4–2 | 55 | +6 |
| 4Noor Haddad | 3–3 | 51 | +1 |
| 5Rafe Oyelaran | 3–3 | 48 | -4 |
| 6Tuck Brenneman | 2–4 | 44 | -12 |
| 7Priya Anand | 1–5 | 39 | -20 |
Re-sorts on every posted score, and shows you which tiebreaker separated the top two.
Ranked 2nd of 31 in Thursday Night Dinks · 14th of 486 across all groups
Lifetime record, average winning and losing score, and where you sit against the group average.
Round 4 pairings posted · 6:58 PM
Chet Okafor was added as a guest player
One thread per group, with pairing posts and roster changes dropped in as system notes.
You are up next on Court 1 with Priya Anand
Deshawn Pryor confirmed the 11–9 score in round 3
3 offline scores finished syncing
Marisol Vega invited you to Herriman Morning Ladder
You finished 2nd of 8 in Thursday Night Dinks
Junie Kowalczyk posted in Thursday Night Dinks
Mute any group, or silence everything except your own matches
You are up next, a score needs confirming, an invite landed, results are final.
| Player | Win % | Record |
|---|---|---|
| 1Deshawn Pryor | 64.8% | 171–93 |
| 2Marisol Vega | 61.9% | 148–91 |
| 3Junie Kowalczyk | 57.4% | 132–98 |
| 4Rafe Oyelaran | 52.1% | 99–91 |
| 5Noor Haddad | 49.6% | 81–82 |
| 6Priya Anand | 41.3% | 52–74 |
Per-group and global, lifetime or season, with guest results kept out of permanent stats.
Scoring & standings
Every registered player in a match can enter the score — no waiting on one designated scorekeeper who wandered off to court 4.
Choose the cascade before the first serve, from the rules pickleball groups already use. Drag them into whatever order your group argues about least.
Groups & social
A player can sit in the Thursday night group, the women's 3.5 ladder, and a tournament-only roster at the same time. Stats roll up per group and across all of them.
Push is the default, with email and SMS as opt-in channels. Every category can be silenced per group.
Profiles carry a privacy setting: full stats visible to everyone, to your groups only, or to nobody but you.
Ratings
Enter your DUPR rating from 1.0 to 6.0 and Point Zapper uses it to balance partners. No DUPR account? Self-assess instead, and the app maps you onto the same scale so mixed rosters still pair cleanly. Automatic two-way DUPR sync is on the roadmap — it needs a signed partnership with DUPR, so for now the number is yours to type.
Learning the kitchen line, serves are landing, keeping score out loud.
Consistent dinks and drives, starting to stack and poach on purpose.
Resets under pressure, controls the speed-up, plays the sideline.
Tournament-level hands, error rates that make round robins uncomfortable.
Point Zapper is free. Join the beta and run your next round robin without the clipboard.
Need a court first? Visit CourtZapper