How To Choose A Scorer’s Table
As an Athletics Director or Coach of basketball/volleyball program, you want to elevate your game environment to be the most exciting, positive place for fans. You want to recognize athletes, school spirit, and the community that comes out to support sports. More than likely, you’ve tried banners, program guides, and coupons to make it exciting and fundraise at the same time.
We’ve put together a step by step play for your with the SEVEN most important questions to consider as you look at options to upgrade your facilities and to generate $10,000 or more per year for your program.
7 QUESTIONS AND THE ANSWERS YOU NEEDTO CHOOSE A DIGITAL SCORERS TABLE
A guide for coaches and Athletic Directors presented by Sideline Interactive.
A digital scorers table will CREATE A HOMECOURT ADVANTAGE on game night, enhance practices, and help make every special event and assembly that is held in your gym that much more special. All of this while generating revenue for your athletic department!
Question #1: How Quickly Will a Digital Scorers Table Pay for Itself and then Generate Revenue for Our Athletic Department?
The coaches at Mason High School in Mason, Texas saw an opportunity to do something better. Mason is a small town of 2,000 people whose residents actively support Mason High School.
Coach Sherry Keller and Booster Club Treasurer Melinda Baker put a plan together to purchase Sideline Interactive’s digital scoring table.
In the first two years of using Sideline’s scorer’s table, they raised over $20,000 by selling sponsorship on the digital scoring tables using Sideline’s ad templates. Sponsorship rates range from $500 to $1,500. With the new money and grants, they continued renovating the gym with new scoreboards and a massive LED video board from Sideline Interactive.
A student remarked, “Wow, the video board makes the whole place look high-tech. We don’t need a new gym.”
Rick Rierson, president of the Lincoln High School in Minnesota, saw similar results. “We sold 22 digital sponsorship ads on the Sideline Interactive 12ft scorer’s table for $500 a year. The advertisers have loved how big the ads are and it’s the center of the court. We paid for our table within a month.”
Question #2 How Much Will a Scorers Table Improve the GAMEDY EXPERIENCE for Our Athletes and FANS?
In addition to unlimited sponsorship, coaches can put a mix of action pictures, highlight film, crowd prompts, school announcements, and player roster pictures on the scorer’s table.
“We love how you can light up the table whenever a 3-point, free throw, or time-out is called.” Ben Paul, Athletic Director at Monroeville High in Ohio.
With Sideline’s Interactive Game Prompt and Player Prompt features, it allows you to pause the current slideshow, play a 3-point animation, and resume right where the advertising slideshow left off— all at the push of one button!
This creates an interactive exciting environment for the fans and another way to increase the value of your sponsorships! Coaches love Sideline’s ability to play the game films from Hudl, Synergy, and many other video sources such as camcorders, Netflix, Youtube, etc.
For emergencies and practices, the tables can be turned into a digital scoreboard with a scoreboard layout specifically for Basketball, Volleyball, Wrestling, and other sports.
Sideline Interactive is HONORED to be the TRUSTED SCORERS TABLE for the College Basketball Experience at the College Basektball Hall of Fame & Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame!
See the Digital Scoring Table in action
EVALUATING SCORING TABLES
As you evaluate digital basketball scoring tables and the long-term investment for your program, consider the following criteria:
Question #3 How Good is the Software?
🏀Does the software work the way the scoring table operator would want?
🏀How’s the workflow as we move from pre-game to announcements to game situation?
🏀Can we customize how the software works?
🏀How easy is it to use?
“Sideline Interactive’s GamePresenter software is so easy to use. We let our Audio Visual class handle all the presentations and run the software. They have a great time doing it,” said Kevin McCaffrey, Athletic Director of University High School in California, who purchased Sideline’s 12ft scoring table.
Other questions to consider about the software before making your decision to purchase:
🏀Does the software allow you to: Instantly trigger any player’s roster picture?
🏀Instantly trigger any crowd graphic such as 3 pointers, time out, the flag?
🏀Allow you to switch team settings quickly?
🏀Display instant messages on the board?
🏀Control music?
🏀Display a Digital Scoreboard?
Sideline Interactive’s software is proprietary and written from the ground up for how a scoreboard operator would use it.
It is written specifically for a volunteer or 15-year-old teen to run with its intuitive interface. They continually innovate new features and functions into their software upgrades.
Many other companies will bundle an off-the-shelf presentation software or 99-cent apps on an iPad with their scoring table. How can you request changes or get support from a company that doesn’t control its own software?
How do you prove the value of sponsorships? Using Sideline Interactive’s ad tracking features, you can generate advertising reports that show how often an ad plays and how long it plays. Prove a positive rate of return for your advertisements and hold yourself accountable.
Question #4 How Innovative is the Technology?
Will the scoring table work with our existing scoreboards?
Will it work with video boards or other TVs we have in the gym?
(If you are looking for a video board, check out our article on How to Choose a Video Board)
Sideline Interactive’s scorer’s tables work with your existing scoreboards such as Daktronics, Nevco, Fairplay, OES, and other major brand scoreboard companies. Sideline Interactive has a line of video boards that can sync with their scoring tables. Their GamePresenter software can control the scoring table, video boards, and other TVs around your gym.
Question #5 What is the Quality of the Product and its construction?
As part of the evaluation, you definitely will want to look at how the scoring tables are built.
How long will it last especially when it’s out in the gym during PE?
Will it support the weight of kids sitting on the table?
Will the digital screens be protected when a ball strikes it?
“Sideline Interactive’s tables are PE proof” Kevin Herron, Athletic Director at Central Heights High, Texas.
Sideline’s tables are built to last by taking abuse from ball strikes to the screen, kids sitting on tables, and the general use in a gym environment. The tables are on wheels so that one person can easily move the table for set up.
Can your current table withstand ball strikes, kids sitting on or jumping up and down on it?
Play the video below to see what happened when we bashed one of our scorers tables with a 2×4!
Question #6 How Good is the Support?
How do we get help?
How is the assistance given?
All of Sideline’s Interactive’s scorer’s tables are Internet-enabled. Remote support is provided instantly. When a coach calls in for assistance, their tech support group can log in with a coach and work on the question together. When it’s 30 minutes before a game, you don’t have time to worry about the table, the equipment works every time.
Question #7 What has the experience of other schools been with the digital scorers table that I am considering?
“Sideline Interactive has the best scorer’s table, best software, best service. Their digital scorer’s table and service are AWESOME and wow our fans.” Ben Paul, Athletic Director, Monroeville High School, OH.
“We sold $30,000 of sponsorships on our Sideline Interactive scorer’s table last season. We kept100% of it!” David Smola, Athletic Director, Cathedral Catholic High School, San Diego, CA
“We paid for our scoring table within the first month. With Sideline’s high quality scoring table, we’ll be making money for the next10 years.” Kevin Herron, Central Heights HS, TX
LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP AND SUPPORT
Sideline Interactive is intent on long-term relationships with customers. We believe Sideline Interactive’s advantages as a premier supplier of innovative, high-quality scorer’s tables and video boards that are made for schools to easily run and fundraise with.
Sideline’s product line includes a Digital TV scoring table, PRO-LED Seamless Scorer’s Table, Static Table, LED Video Board (indoor and outdoor), Software, and Integration with Scoreboards.
If you have any questions about any of the information or would like to discuss any questions that you have about digital scorer’s tables. give us a call at (832) 786-0302 or email sales@sidelineinteractive.com.
We are happy to provide you with any and all information that would be helpfulto you as you make your decision.
Find more information about our Pro LED Scorers Tables on our Pro LED informational page.
This original version of this article, “How To Choose a Scorer’s Table” was printed by Athletic Management.