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StatChat does both, from one play log — the entry on the sideline and the graphics on your stream, with nobody retyping anything in between. Below is how it lines up against the other ways of doing this.
Side by side
Compared by category rather than by brand, because products ship features and a table naming names goes out of date the week after it is written.
| StatChat | Stat-only apps | Desktop stat software | Video platforms | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs on | Any browser — phone, tablet, laptop | Phone or tablet | Usually Windows, often a dedicated machine | Browser and app |
| Live stats entry | Yes, a few taps per play | Yes | Yes, dense keyboard entry | Varies; often derived from video afterwards |
| NFHS rules | Built to the Statisticians’ Manual | Varies by product | Often adapted from college or pro conventions | Varies |
| Feeds a switcher | JSON and XML, plus ready-made overlays | Not built for it | Rarely, and usually to local hardware only | Their own stream, their own graphics |
| Live view for the booth | Crew View on any second screen | A fan-facing live page | Limited or none | Yes, inside their platform |
| Film and highlights | Not its job | No | No | Yes, and that is the point of them |
| Typical cost | $250 per season, all in | Tens of dollars a year | Several hundred, plus hardware | Quoted per school, generally the largest line |
Compared by category against published material, September 2026.
The difference, concretely
It is the row in the table above that decides most of this, and it is the one most easily skimmed past. So, plainly:
Without it
The stats live in one app and the graphics live in the switcher, and a person sits between them. Every score change, every down and distance, every leader board is typed a second time by whoever is free. It is slow, it is wrong about as often as anyone is busy, and it costs you a crew member for the whole night.
With it
Your switcher polls a URL. The scorer taps a play on the sideline and the score bar, the drive panel and the leader boards follow it — no second entry, no second person, nothing to keep in step. Set the addresses up in August and flag the game on air; that is the whole of game night.
No plugin, no partnership, no vendor lock. The overlays are transparent web pages and the feeds are JSON or XML at a URL — so vMix, OBS, Wirecast, CasparCG or something your own crew wrote all read the same thing. The vMix walkthrough is written out dialog by dialog.
Alongside what you have
Film, highlights and recruiting are a different job from live statistics, and StatChat is not asking you to replace anything you already run.
Plenty of schools run both: film and streaming on one platform, live stats and broadcast graphics on StatChat. They do not overlap and they do not conflict.
$250 a season, published, everything included. No quote to chase and no per-seat maths to do before you know what it costs.
StatChat hands your graphics a live URL of football numbers. That is the piece it adds to a setup that already has cameras and a stream.
The short version
You put games on a stream, or want to. Somebody in a booth needs the numbers live. You are done with a crew member retyping a score into a graphics template all night. StatChat was built for that Friday, first.
Full team and individual statistics, season reporting, trends by quarter and by half, and stat packages that export to PDF and Excel — all of it a by-product of scoring the game once, and all of it in the same $250.
The trial needs no card and comes with a sample game already in it, so you can see the overlays running against real-looking data before you commit to anything. Start one here.