Basketball
Scoreboard
Software

Basketball. Nothing else.
Every category.

basketBoard7 does one job: basketball. The timing engine, the shot clock and the foul logic exist for this sport alone. What does change between competitions is the clock — and every part of it is adjustable, so the same licence runs a senior league game, a women’s fixture, a U16 tournament and a mini-basket festival.

Typical period settings

Starting points, not limits — every value below is typed in and saved as your own preset.

One board, one sport, every competition. Because basketBoard7 is built for basketball only, none of these settings fight each other — you are adjusting the same match structure, not switching between sports. Select the preset before the game and the clock, the scoring rules and your saved LED layout all load together.

Control panel &
LED output

The operator control panel and the matching output on the venue LED display.

Operator Control Panel

Manage your basketball game on the LED display from a single, intuitive control form — designed to be run by one person through the busiest moments of the match.

Bring your own hardware.
basketBoard7 connects to it.

basketBoard7 exchanges live data with external hardware in both directions: your electronic console can control the board, and the board can feed your backboard LEDs and shot-clock displays. Everything runs over standard TCP/IP and UDP on the venue network.

⬅ Data In · Console → basketBoard7

Connect any electronic console

Already using a table-side control unit, scorekeeper console, or statistics software? Connect it to basketBoard7 over TCP/IP and drive the whole LED display from your own hardware: scores, game clock, shot clock, team fouls, timeouts, team names — even full rosters and per-player fouls and points.

• Works with any console or software that can open a TCP connection
• Simple text protocol — one line per command, one reply per line
• While the console drives the board, it becomes the single source of truth
• Player statistics feed for the live stats display

Data Out · basketBoard7 → LEDs ➡

Drive backboard LEDs & shot-clock displays

basketBoard7 broadcasts its complete live state over UDP, ten times per second. Any listening device on the network — an LED controller, an above-backboard 24-second display, an auxiliary panel, or a TV graphics system — can follow the game in real time with no polling and no handshake.

• Light the red backboard frame the instant the period ends
• Light the yellow shot-clock strip when the 24-second clock expires
• Feed above-backboard shot-clock displays with the live 24/14-second value
• Loss-tolerant design: horn flags stay active for ~3 seconds, so a dropped packet never means a missed horn

Hardware-neutral by design. We supply the software only — no proprietary consoles, controllers or displays to buy. All integration channels are open, fully documented and included in every license, so you (or your hardware supplier) can integrate any console or LED controller you already own or plan to build.

Console protocol
over TCP

The Data Socket is the channel your electronic console or statistics software uses to drive the board. Connect once over TCP and stream scores, game clock, shot clock, fouls, rosters and player statistics in real time — one text line per command.

# send rosters
ROSTER;TEAM=H;LIST=7,SMITH|11,JOHNSON|23,WILLIAMS,S
!OK:ROSTER:3

# team names + tip-off state
HOMENAME=CITY;GUESTNAME=UNITED;CHRONO=10:00
!OK:3

# live update: score, clock, shot clock
HOMESCORE=78;GUESTSCORE=65;CHRONO=07:42;SC=14
!OK:4

# player stats (07 = 7)
PLAYER;TEAM=H;NO=07;FOUL=2;PTS=15
!OK:PLAYER

# number not in roster
PLAYER;TEAM=H;NO=99;FOUL=0;PTS=0
#PLAYER_NOT_FOUND:99

Scoreboard data keys

Live state for LEDs
& shot-clock displays

basketBoard7 pushes its complete live state as small UDP packets — 10 packets per second, one line each. Your LED controller just listens: no connection, no handshake, no PIN. Perfect for backboard red-frame LEDs, yellow shot-clock strips and above-backboard 24-second displays.

# normal play — packets arrive ~every 100 ms
BB7;SEQ=1024;PERIOD=2;CHRONO=07:32;RUN=1;SC=14;
HORN_MAIN=0;HORN_SC=0;HOMESCORE=52;GUESTSCORE=48;
HOMEFOUL=3;GUESTFOUL=5;TO_ACTIVE=0;TO_H=2;TO_G=1

# shot clock expires — yellow light window
BB7;SEQ=1893;PERIOD=2;CHRONO=05:11;RUN=0;SC=0;
HORN_MAIN=0;HORN_SC=1;HOMESCORE=52;GUESTSCORE=48;...

# period ends — red frame window (~3 s)
BB7;SEQ=2210;PERIOD=2;CHRONO=00:00;RUN=0;SC=;
HORN_MAIN=1;HORN_SC=0;HOMESCORE=52;GUESTSCORE=48;...

Basketball scoreboard software
— answered

Lifetime licence.
No annual fees.

One-time payment, free updates for two years, PC licence key and USB dongle both included. Every integration interface is included in every licence — there are no paid add-ons.

Need a different sport?

Ten scoreboards cover 38 sports. Buying several boards for one venue reduces the price significantly.