Pickleball Score Tracker

📌 Overview

This score tracker allows one person to manage the live game while others can watch in real-time using a unique session ID.

Scorekeeper has full control, viewers have read-only access. Viewer page refreshes automatically.

⚙️ Scorekeeper Features

• Create a new session with a short 4-character ID
• Track score for Team A (blue) and Team B (red)
• Undo previous point (Works correctly for all scoring modes)
• Manually Switch Server (🔁 button, available in all modes as override/correction)
• Reset game score (preserves player names, score target, starting team)
• Set target score: 11, 15 (Traditional) or 21 (MLP Rally Scoring)
• Set starting team (before first point)
• Rename players
• Download rally history as a CSV
• End session

📜 Scoring Modes

• Traditional (Play to 11 or 15): Uses side-out scoring. Only the serving team scores. Score call includes server number (1 or 2). Player 2 serves after Player 1 faults (except first serve of game).
• MLP (Play to 21): Uses rally scoring. Point scored on every rally.
  • If serving team wins: They score, players switch sides, correct player serves next based on score/position.
  • If receiving team wins: They score, gain the serve (side-out), correct player serves next based on score/position (players do not switch sides on side-out).
  The server number (1 or 2) displayed reflects the player determined by these rules.

👀 Viewer Mode

• Use the session ID to join in read-only mode
• Score, server, player names, and rally history are all visible
• Page refreshes automatically to show live updates

📱 Mobile Friendly

Designed for use on phones and tablets.