Score Entry
All the ways to record game results in PickleFriend — straight from the organizer's screen, from players' own phones, or hands-free with headless auto-mixing.
Scores are what turn a casual mix into tracked ratings and ladder standings. There are a few ways to get them in, and which one fits depends on who's holding the phone — you, the players, or nobody at all.
Availability: Score entry is included free for every account's first month (details below). After that it's part of the Pro and Club plans — and Pro subscriptions start with their own 10-day free trial. The plan that matters is the group owner's — a sub-organizer records scores in a Pro owner's group regardless of their own plan.
Free for your first month
Every new account includes score entry free for its first month — record real games and watch ratings build from them, nothing to sign up for. When the month ends, everything you recorded stays: your games, ratings, and history remain visible. Recording new scores after the first month is part of Pro.
The ways to enter scores
- Organizer entry — you type scores into the Mixer as games finish.
- Players' phones — share a score link and players enter their own court's result. It syncs to your screen as it comes in.
- Big Screen / kiosk — enter scores from a shared screen at the venue.
- Headless auto-mixing — hand the session to the server. It finalizes each round as scores arrive, mixes the next one, and pushes the new courts back out to players. You don't touch it.
Scores feed straight into ratings and, for leagues, into your ladder standings.
In this section
- Organizer score entry — type results into the Mixer as games wrap up.
- The player score link — let players submit their own court from their phones.
- Confirmations — what happens between a player submitting a score and that score actually counting.
- Big Screen / kiosk scoring — enter results from a shared screen at the venue.
- Split Session — mix the next round before every court has reported, carrying the stragglers forward.
- Headless auto-mixing — the server runs the night for you.
- Editing and correcting games — fixing a wrong score after the fact.
- Organizer score entry Type results straight into the Mixer as each game ends — every court saves the moment it finishes, ratings update on the spot, and you never leave the screen.
- The player score link Share a per-court link and players enter their own result from their phones — no account or app needed — while everything syncs live back to your screen.
- Score confirmation & status badges How a submitted score is confirmed, what the status badges mean, and how the system resolves a court entered from two places.
- Headless auto-mixing (hands-free rounds) Hand the session to the server: it finalizes each round as scores arrive, mixes the next, and republishes courts while you play.
- Editing and correcting games Fix a mistyped score, wrong court, or swapped team after the fact — PickleFriend rebuilds the ratings around the correction so the standings stay accurate.
- Big-screen kiosk entry How to use the full-screen kiosk view to record scores directly on a shared device — TV, tablet, or laptop — placed at the venue.
- Split Session Mix the next round before every court has reported, carrying unfinished games forward without losing their round identity.