For tournament directors
Spend less time researching teams. Get to your preliminary schedule faster.
MatchBalance combines recent results, opponent strength, and PitchRank ratings to recommend a seed order and practical competitive divisions for your tournament. Get a clear cheat sheet showing where teams fit, where to separate divisions, and which teams need a closer look—so you can focus your time on the toughest placement decisions.
Field snapshot
Illustrative U14 Boys review
What MatchBalance does
MatchBalance estimates each team’s strength from its recent results and the strength of the opponents it played, with PitchRank ratings helping steady teams that have little history. The recommended seed order follows that evidence.
PowerScore stays visible and unchanged beside every seed.
We recommend divisions by evaluating the teams together—not just the gap between two neighboring seeds. Two teams right beside a break can still be closely matched.
A recommendation—you finalize every placement.
Six similarly strong teams can stay in one division as two pools of three. Each recommended division comes with compatible formats, so group sizes fit the way you actually run the event.
You assign pools and build the schedule.
MatchBalance compares every eligible pairing using PitchRank’s matchup model. It considers projected goal separation and four-goal blowout risk. We check every assessed pairing to flag potential mismatches that a division average could hide.
Helps you spot potential mismatches before brackets are final.
How it works
Send your accepted-team list or event link. We match the teams to PitchRank and organize each age group and gender.
We look at each team’s recent games and the strength of the opponents it faced, using PitchRank ratings to steady the estimates. The published PowerScore is never changed.
We evaluate the teams in each age group together to recommend a seed order, competitive divisions and compatible formats, and flag teams with limited history that need a closer look.
Your package shows the recommended seed order with each team’s PowerScore, record and national rank, plus recommended divisions, formats and teams that need manual placement. Review the recommendations, add your local knowledge, then assign pools and build your preliminary schedule. Coaches can review placements through your usual process.
The difference
Two teams can sit next to each other in a ranking and still be a poor competitive matchup. MatchBalance reads recent results in the context of who each team played, then evaluates the whole field before producing placement guidance.
Traditional ranking sheet
A clean order, but no context about the gaps.
MatchBalance context
The decisions worth reviewing
Team C’s results came against stronger opponents
Who a team played matters alongside wins and losses.
Seeds 4–9 stay in one division
Six similarly strong teams can play as two pools of three.
What you get
Each age group and gender receives its own tournament-specific cheat sheet with the recommended seed order, PowerScore, record, national rank, recommended divisions and formats, and limited-history warnings.
Receive the same tournament field in an editable format for your internal bracket and placement workflow.
Your package includes one consolidated refresh for late entries, withdrawals and updated PitchRank information before your bracket review.
Pricing
Whole tournament
Every covered age group and gender
| Total teams | Price |
|---|---|
| Up to 75 | $199 |
| 76–150 | $399 |
| 151–300 | $699 |
| 301–450 | $1,199 |
| 451–600 | $1,499 |
| 601+ | Custom quote |
À la carte
For part of your tournament
| Cohorts | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 cohort | $49 |
| 3 cohorts | $129 |
| 6 cohorts | $239 |
Every package includes: MatchBalance PDF, editable team file and one update before bracket review.
Free sample: one age group + gender from your tournament.
Why MatchBalance
PitchRank ratings give a stable measure of team strength. MatchBalance analyzes the recent game history of the teams entered in your tournament—who each team played and how strong those opponents were—so you start with a ranked field and the difficult placement decisions identified, instead of researching teams one by one.
Important context
You make the final decisions. MatchBalance gives you better evidence to make them.
Questions
Every age group PitchRank ranks: U10 through U19, boys and girls. Send your whole list either way; any team PitchRank has no current rank for still appears on the sheet.
They stay on the sheet in their own section, marked for manual placement. PitchRank has no current rank for these teams, so nothing is guessed for them; you place them using recent results, prior division or club input.
We reply to every request within one business day. Delivery timing depends on your event and your bracket review date, so we confirm it in your quote.
One consolidated refresh of your package before your bracket review. It picks up late entries and withdrawals and re-reads the latest weekly PitchRank ratings.
Your accepted-team list, or a link to your event page. A list exported from any registration platform works. You do not need to collect team resumes or past results for us.
It estimates each team’s strength from recent results and the strength of the opponents it played, with PitchRank ratings helping steady teams that have little history. PowerScore stays visible and unchanged on the sheet, but it does not dictate the recommended order.
It does not assign final placements, build pools, brackets or schedules, or contact clubs. It recommends a seed order, divisions and formats; every placement decision stays with you.
Sample sheet
Don't just look at another ranking list. See how MatchBalance turns a tournament field into a practical seeding cheat sheet with a recommended seed order, PowerScore, record, national rank, competitive breaks and teams that need a closer look.
View the sample MatchBalance sheetU13 Boys · Illustrative sample data · PDF
Free sample
Send us your accepted-team list or tournament link and we'll prepare a free sample for one age group and gender.
See the difference between having rankings and having a seeding system.
One age group + gender
Your actual tournament field
Reply within one business day
