Basketball Tryout & Evaluation Bundle — Coach's Scoring System (Planner + Auto-Calculating Spreadsheet + Guide)

Tryouts are chaos. Thirty kids, one afternoon, and a roster you have to defend to every parent who asks "why didn't my kid make it?"

This bundle turns that chaos into a repeatable system — so your cut decisions are documented, defensible, and done in a fraction of the time.

You get three tools that work together:

📋 1. Tryout & Evaluation Planner (PDF, 12 pages)

Every printable sheet you need for tryout day, in one place:

• Player sign-in & roster sheet
• Individual skill assessment sheets (1-5 scoring across 8 core skills)
• Scrimmage/live-play evaluation sheet
• Comparative ranking grid
• Conditioning & fitness test log
• Callback list for multi-day tryouts
• Final roster / cut list
• Ready-to-send parent message templates (made the team, didn't make it, callback invite)
• Season kickoff checklist

📊 2. Auto-Calculating Scoring Companion (Excel)

This is the part that actually saves you hours. Type in scores during tryouts, and this spreadsheet does the rest:

• Skills and scrimmage averages calculate themselves
• A weighted Total Score blends both (fully adjustable — dial it however you want)
• Every player is automatically ranked, no manual math
• Mark a decision (Made / Callback / Not Made) and it's color-coded instantly
• Your final roster and "not advancing" list build themselves — nothing to retype

📖 3. How to Run Fair Basketball Tryouts (PDF Guide, 9 pages)

The judgment calls behind the numbers:

• A real scoring rubric — concrete 1-3-5 descriptions for all 8 skills, so every evaluator scores the same way
• How to weight Skills vs. Scrimmage by age and level
• How to handle close calls, ties, and "project" players
• How to communicate decisions so parents trust the process, even when the answer is no

WHO THIS IS FOR

Youth, travel, AAU, and rec-league basketball coaches who are done making cut decisions off memory and gut feel — and who are tired of parent conversations they can't back up with anything concrete.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT

Most tryout templates are just blank boxes. This bundle gives you the blank boxes and the scoring logic, the math, and the words to communicate the outcome — the three things that actually make tryouts feel fair instead of arbitrary.

WHAT YOU'LL RECEIVE

Instantly after purchase:

• 1 PDF planner (12 pages, print-ready)
• 1 Excel spreadsheet (auto-calculating, fully editable)
• 1 PDF coach's guide (9 pages)

Use it for one season or every season — it's yours to reuse and duplicate for as many teams and tryouts as you run.

A NOTE FROM THE CREATOR

Built for coaches who'd rather spend their prep time on the court than in a spreadsheet — and who want a tryout process they can stand behind when a parent asks "why."