That is a real offer, and for the public record it is a good one. MaxPreps Advantage takes the film from the NFHS Network stream your school already runs, has people log the stats within 8 to 12 hours, and posts the box score where recruiters and reporters look. Strata is a different thing: the numbers during the game, on the bench, on the same record as the athlete's injury, training load and clearance. MaxPreps gives you Friday by Saturday morning. Strata gives you Friday on Friday, and keeps it next to the kid's knee.
It is the public record of high school sports: rankings, leaders, athlete pages, the box score a reporter quotes and a recruiter checks. Advantage adds film pulled automatically from the NFHS stream, stats logged by their staff, stat-linked clips and basketball shot charts, with a free film library for every NFHS school. Keep posting to it.
MaxPreps logs what happened, after it happened, for everyone to see. Strata shows the coach what is happening, while it is happening, for the people on the bench: the halftime shot chart, the lineup that is winning, the player who is on a minutes limit. Then the numbers land on the athlete's record, next to his readiness and his lifts. MaxPreps has no injury, no training load and no Athletic Trainer.
MaxPreps Advantage is $300 a team per season for football and $600 a team per season for every other sport, published October 2026. A school with one football team and fourteen other teams on Advantage is $8,700 a year. Strata is $5,000 a year for every team, every athlete and everything else on this page.
Two columns, two different jobs. The rows where MaxPreps wins are rows Strata does not compete in, on purpose.
| Strata | MaxPreps Advantage | |
|---|---|---|
| The public record: rankings, leaders, recruiter-facing athlete pages | ✗ Not built, on purpose | ✓ The standard |
| Film pulled from the NFHS stream, stat-linked clips | ✗ | ✓ |
| Who enters the stats | Your scorer taps the game live, or you import a sheet | Their staff log from the film |
| When the coach has the numbers | ✓ During the game, with a halftime report | Within 8 to 12 hours |
| The roster's injury status on the same screen as the box score | ✓ | – |
| Shot charts, spray charts, tendencies, 3D replay | ✓ Every sport we score, us and them | Basketball shot charts, possession tracking |
| Career across Varsity, JV and freshman, every year | ✓ | ✓ Athlete pages |
| 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 MaxPreps stats sheet | – |
| Yearly cost | $5,000 flat for the whole school ($3,000 founding) | $300 per team per season for football, $600 for every other sport |
✓ 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 MaxPreps, PlayOn Sports or the NFHS Network. If MaxPreps does something we have dashed, tell us and this page gets corrected.
"Keep MaxPreps. It is the public record and the recruiters read it. MaxPreps gives you Friday by Saturday morning. Strata gives you Friday on Friday, on the bench, with the kid's injury status on the same screen, and then keeps the numbers on his record next to his training week. If a game only lives on MaxPreps, we import the sheet."
The public pages, the rankings and the recruiter traffic do not change. Post your box scores to MaxPreps the way you always have.
A student scorer taps the game from the bench. The coach gets the halftime report and the shot chart; the scorer sees who is on a restriction before the sub goes in.
Drop a MaxPreps stats sheet in. The stats land on every player's card and in the season totals, and the athlete's record is complete without anyone typing a number twice.
Open MaxPreps at halftime and ask it where the other team is scoring from. Ask which lineup has outscored them. Ask whether your best shooter is cleared for the second half. Those are not features MaxPreps is missing. They are questions the public record was never built to answer, because it is written the next morning.
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