IO4 Scorekeeper — Step-by-Step

Prepare your iPad

Recommended: iPad 9th generation or newer.

Before game day, open your IO4 Scorekeeper link in Safari. For faster courtside access, use Share → Add to Home Screen. Start fully charged, confirm Wi-Fi or your phone hotspot works, and keep a charging cable or battery available. A phone can serve as your backup device.

Set up the game

Before tip-off, confirm the team, opponent, and five players who are ON COURT.

IO4 requires exactly five players on court before recording a player event. The live WHO? selector will only offer those five, helping prevent a bench player from being credited with a play.

Tap the event, then choose who made the play

EVENT → WHO? → DETAIL.

Record what you see first. Tap the event, then choose the correct player from the five currently on court. If the event needs more information, IO4 asks for that detail next. You do not need to preselect or highlight a player.

Shots, free throws, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers, and player fouls use explicit player selection. Turnovers and fouls then ask for their event type.

Substitute or correct a mistake

Quick Sub keeps the eligible five accurate.

For a substitution, use Quick Sub → player OUT → player IN → Confirm. The next WHO? selector immediately uses the new five. If you record the wrong event, use Mistake / Undo and continue; you do not need to restart the game.

Complete the first half

At halftime, stop live scoring and complete the halftime step.

Record the halftime score and confirm the first-half information before opening the protected coaching handoff.

Hand off to the coach

Open the secure Halftime Coach experience.

Use Share + Open Halftime Coach. The coach reviews the evidence and decides what matters. The scorekeeper does not make the coaching decision.

Start the second half

Return to Scorekeeper and continue recording the game.

Capture H2 the same way you captured the first half. IO4 can then compare the second-half response with the coach's halftime focus.

Finish the game

Confirm the final score before marking the game FINAL.

When the game is truly complete, enter the final score and tap FINAL. The completed game stays part of the team's evidence.

Postgame coach handoff

Open the protected Competition Coach experience.

Use Share + Open Competition Coach. The coach can review the full-game evidence, the halftime decision, and the second-half response, then decide what deserves attention next.

You're done

The scorekeeper's game-day job is complete.

IO4 carries the evidence forward into player and team development, practice planning, the next game, tournament weekends, and season continuity. The coach stays in control of what to act on.