Good. Keep it. GameChanger is the families' app: free scorekeeping, a stream grandma can watch, automatic highlights, a season to follow from the stands. Strata scores the same game for the bench and for the record: the kid who is on a restriction, the halftime report, the stat that lands on his profile next to his readiness and his training week. One is for the people watching. The other is for the people deciding.
Free for coaches and scorekeepers. Streaming from a phone with a scoreboard overlay, automatic highlight clips, a family app with live scores on the lock screen, team messaging, and season stats parents can follow. For a family who wants to watch and share, it is the standard, and we do not try to replace it.
GameChanger knows the game. Strata knows the player. When the point guard checks in, Strata's scorer sees that he is on a minutes limit from Tuesday's eval. At halftime, the coach gets the shot chart, the lineup plus-minus and the tendencies. After the buzzer, the stats sit on the athlete's record next to his sleep, his lifts and his clearance. GameChanger has no injury, no training load and no Athletic Trainer, so it cannot connect any of that.
GameChanger is free for coaches. Families pay for the premium video and stats: published fan plans run $9.99 to $24.99 a month, and a Team Pass runs $239 to $449 a season per team. Strata is $5,000 a year for the whole school, every sport, every athlete, every role, with nothing charged to a parent.
Two columns, two different jobs. The rows where GameChanger wins are rows Strata does not compete in, on purpose.
| Strata | GameChanger | |
|---|---|---|
| Streaming to families, automatic highlights | ✗ Not built, on purpose | ✓ Excellent |
| Scorekeeping, free for coaches | ✓ Included | ✓ Free |
| Family app, lock-screen scores, team messaging | ✗ | ✓ |
| Live stats on the bench with the roster's injury status on the same screen | ✓ | – |
| Halftime report: shot chart, lineups plus-minus, tendencies | ✓ Every sport we score | – |
| The other team's shot chart, spray charts, 3D replay of every play | ✓ | Spray charts on the paid Team Pass |
| Season and career stats across Varsity, JV and freshman | ✓ One player, every level, every year | Per team, per season |
| Stats on the same record as the injury, the lifts and the wellness check-in | ✓ | – |
| Injury record, concussion protocol, return to play | ✓ | – |
| Strength programming, weight-room tablet station, testing day | ✓ | – |
| Nutrition, wellness, WBGT heat safety | ✓ | – |
| Imports the other one's data | ✓ Reads a GameChanger box score export or screenshot | – |
| Yearly cost | $5,000 flat for the whole school ($3,000 founding); families pay nothing | Free for coaches; fan plans $9.99 to $24.99 a month, Team Pass $239 to $449 a season per team |
✓ does this · – not offered, or not published. Comparison reflects general, publicly available positioning as of October 2026; feature sets change over time. Strata is not affiliated with GameChanger or DICK'S Sporting Goods. If GameChanger does something we have dashed, tell us and this page gets corrected.
"Keep GameChanger for the families. It is free and the parents love it. GameChanger scores the game for the stands. Strata scores it for the bench and the record. Our scorer sees who is on a restriction before the sub goes in, the coach gets a halftime report, and the stats land on the kid's record next to his readiness. If a game was only scored on GameChanger, we import the box score."
The stream, the highlights and the family app do not change. Nobody has to download anything new to watch.
Tap a stat, then who. Subs cannot pull a player by mistake, fouls stop the clock, and the roster's availability is on the screen. A watch link shows the game live to anyone the coach sends it to.
For a game only scored on GameChanger, export the box score or take a screenshot and drop it in. The stats land on every player's card and in the season totals.
Open GameChanger and ask it whether your point guard is on a minutes limit tonight. Ask how the starting five has done together this season. Ask what he ate before the game and how he slept. Those are not features GameChanger is missing. They are data it does not have, because the stands never needed them.
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