Support
Answers to the questions we get most. Something else? Email mattkropp@predictabledigits.com — a real person reads it.
The basics
PaddleScramble runs pickleball round robins for 4 to 24 players on iPhone or iPad. Check off who's here, pick your courts, and the app builds the whole night: who partners with whom, which court, and who sits each round. Tap in scores as games finish and the standings keep themselves.
How are matchups chosen?
The scheduler rotates partners so you play with as many different people as possible and against a good mix, while spreading sit-outs evenly. With more players than court spots, everyone sits about the same number of times over the night.
How are standings ranked?
By average points per game, so a player who sat a round isn't penalized. Wins are the tiebreaker. You can finish a night with the standings as-is, a one-game championship between the top players, or a small playoff bracket.
What are the game formats?
- Classic rotation — new partners every round; the default.
- Mexicano — the first three rounds mix everyone, then each round is drawn from the live standings so close players face each other.
- Fixed partners — pick teams of two that stay together all night; standings rank the teams.
- Open play — for drop-in nights. Add or remove players at any time; whoever just arrived gets on a court right away and the next round is redrawn to fit.
- Pods — split 8–24 players into 2–4 pods, each with its own courts, rounds, and standings. Pods can run on their own timing, and a cross-pod playoff can crown one champion.
What is Live Share?
Every game you run gets a short code and a link. Anyone can open live.paddlescramble.com in a browser, enter the code, and watch the schedule and standings update live — no app or account needed. Great for a clubhouse TV. Share the QR code from the app to make joining instant. Shared pages expire after 7 days.
Can I print the schedule?
Yes — one tap prints the full night with score boxes, exactly as the app drew it, for the bulletin board or a paper backup.
Someone left mid-night (or showed up late)
In open play, just add or remove them and the upcoming round redraws. In other formats you can mark a player inactive and future rounds are rebuilt around who's still there; scores already played are kept.
Do I need an account or internet?
No account, ever. The app works fully offline; internet is only needed for the Live Share page other people watch.
My saved players or groups disappeared
Everything is stored on your device, so deleting the app deletes its data. If something looks wrong short of that, force-quit the app and reopen it — and if it persists, email us with what you saw.
Requests and bug reports
PaddleScramble is built by one person and shaped by organizers' feedback — most features started as an email. Write to mattkropp@predictabledigits.com.
Privacy
The short version: your data stays on your device unless you share a game. Details in the privacy policy.