Sports · for coaches
Equal playing time lineup
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Set the roster size, how many play at once and how the game is split, and get a grid that gives every player the same time, within one shift. The printed card says so at the bottom, for the parent who asks. Players are numbers unless you type first names, and names never leave this phone.
Getting the lineup ready…
How it keeps it fair
The rule is simple enough to say to a parent: at every change, the players who have played least go on, and among them whoever sat out last. That keeps every player within one shift of every other at every moment of the game, not just at the end. Splitting each quarter in two ("twice a quarter") makes the shares closer when the roster does not divide evenly.
With positions on, the first position on the list (the goalkeeper, the catcher, the point guard) goes to whoever has had it least, so nobody gets it a second time before everyone else on the field has had a turn, and the other spots rotate the same way.
The NBA and USA Basketball guidelines for ages 7–8 recommend equal playing time, and those for 9–11 recommend it for the first three periods. Your league's own rules come first. For practice, there is the practice plan generator.