Help & FAQ
Find answers to common questions about Inning Wizard
Getting Started
Inning Wizard is a baseball and softball lineup generator that creates fair, balanced lineups for youth teams. Enter your roster, set your innings, click generate — and you'll have a lineup where every kid rotates through positions and gets equal playing time. No spreadsheets, no guesswork.
1. Sign up or log in to your account
2. Go to your Dashboard and click "Create New Team" (or select an existing team)
3. Enter your players' names
4. Set the number of innings and positions
5. Click "Generate Lineups" - that's it!
Several things at once:
• No player repeats a position within a game, whenever the roster math allows it
• Every player gets both infield and outfield time
• Bench time is spread evenly across the innings of a game, and nobody sits twice in a row unless it's unavoidable
• When you save your games, the next lineup favors positions each player hasn't had yet — so variety builds up over the season instead of resetting every week
• A “Balance Lineup Order” button on the results page evens out the batting order using your saved games
Teams & Rosters
The Free plan supports up to 12 players per roster. Paid plans support up to 16 players.
Yes! When you generate lineups, you can save your roster. On paid plans, you can also save multiple games per season and track player statistics over time.
Simply uncheck the absent players before generating your lineup. Inning Wizard will create a balanced lineup with the available players while maintaining fairness for those who are present.
Adding Rosters & Importing (CSV)
On the lineup generator page there are two ways to add players: Paste Names (paste a list straight from a spreadsheet, email, or text message — one name per line) and Manual Entry (type each player with an optional jersey number). Your roster saves to the team, so you only do this once.
Uploading a CSV file is a separate feature for organizations — see the bulk import question below. If you coach a single team, pasting your names is the fastest route.
CSV upload is part of League Administration, available on the league plans. It is built for loading a whole organization at once — every team and player from one file.
On the Free and Individual plans you add players by pasting a list or typing them in, which takes about 30 seconds for a typical roster.
Required: A player name column. This can be a single "Name" column or separate "First Name" and "Last Name" columns.
Optional: Jersey number (headers like "Jersey Number", "Number", or "#" are all recognized). Any extra columns (email, position, birthday, etc.) are simply ignored — they won't cause errors.
Also required for bulk import: a "Team" column. Optionally "Division" and "Season". Each row is one player on one team.
The importer reads the header row, so column order doesn't matter and unrecognized columns (email, birthday, position) are ignored rather than causing an error.
League admins can import all teams and players at once:
1. Go to League Admin
2. Click "Import Rosters (CSV)" in the Teams section
3. Select your season
4. Upload a CSV with columns for Team, Player Name, and optionally Jersey Number and Division
5. Review the preview showing all teams and players
6. Click "Import Rosters"
If your CSV includes division names that don't exist yet, they'll be created automatically. You can also download a template CSV from the import page to see the exact format.
Rosters are capped at 16 players per team on the league plans. If a team in your file exceeds that, the import loads players up to the limit and tells you how many were trimmed. Your original file is untouched.
Yes. The importer auto-detects whether your file uses commas, tabs, or semicolons as delimiters. It also handles quoted fields (like names with commas in them, e.g., "Smith, Jr.").
Subscription Tiers
Free
- 1 team, 12 players max
- 10 lineup generations
- 1 game per generation, 6 innings max
- 1 saved game per season
- Position preferences
- Printable lineups
Individual — $10/yr
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Up to 2 teams, 16 players each
- Unlimited generations
- Up to 9 innings, 5 games at once
- Season tracking + CSV export
- Save up to 30 games per season
- Reuse saved lineups
Leagues & Rec Organizations — let’s talk
- Everything in Individual, for every coach
- League admin dashboard, divisions and seasons
- Invite and manage coaches and co-admins
- Bulk roster import (CSV)
- One setup and one invoice
- Priced per league — email info@inningwizard.com
Individual is for a single coach managing their own team. You create and manage everything yourself.
League plans are for organizations running multiple teams. An administrator creates the teams, invites coaches, organizes divisions (8U, 10U, 12U and so on), and sees every team in one place — with one setup and one invoice instead of asking each coach to subscribe. Pricing is sized to your organization rather than a fixed bracket, so email info@inningwizard.com and we’ll work it out together.
Yes, you can change your plan at any time. If you upgrade, you'll have immediate access to the new features. If you downgrade, your current features will remain until the end of your billing period.
League Administration
1. Get set up on a league plan (email info@inningwizard.com)
2. Go to League Admin from your Dashboard
3. Click "Create Organization" and enter your league/group name
4. Add divisions (optional, but recommended for larger leagues)
5. Create teams and invite coaches
1. Go to League Admin
2. Find the team you want to add a coach to
3. Click "+ Invite Coach"
4. Enter their email and select their role (Head Coach or Assistant Coach)
5. Share the invitation link with them
The coach will receive a link to accept the invitation and gain access to their team.
League admins can invite co-admins who have the same access to the League Admin page — they can manage teams, divisions, seasons, and invite coaches. This is useful for larger organizations where different people oversee different divisions.
1. Go to League Admin
2. Find the League Admins section near the top
3. Click "Invite Admin"
4. Enter their email address and send the invitation
Co-admins do not need a paid subscription of their own — they inherit access through your organization. Only the organization owner can invite or remove co-admins.
Co-Admin (League Admin): Full access to the League Admin page — can manage all teams, divisions, seasons, and invite coaches across the entire organization. Cannot invite other co-admins (owner only).
Head Coach / Team Manager: Full access to their team — edit the roster, generate lineups, manage team settings, and invite assistant coaches. Head Coach and Team Manager are the same permissions; the title is your choice.
Assistant Coach: Can generate, save, and edit lineups; view game history; and export games. Inherits the team owner's tier features for game actions. Cannot edit the roster, delete games, change team settings, or invite other coaches.
Seasons help you organize games and track player statistics over time. League administrators can create seasons (like "Fall 2026") that apply to all teams. Coaches then save their games to the active season for historical tracking and fairness calculations.
Using Inning Wizard
Yes, in several ways. On the results page you can drag players to reorder the batting order, tap two cells to swap positions, remove a player who has left the game, and delete an inning if the game is called early. It all works on phones and tablets. The algorithm gets you most of the way there and you make the final call.
Players will take turns sitting out each inning. Inning Wizard spreads bench time evenly so no kid sits more than anyone else. Over the course of a game, everyone gets roughly equal playing time.
Yes — that's one of the best features. When you save a game, the next time you generate a lineup it automatically factors in where every player has already played. Over a season, this means every kid ends up with balanced time across all positions.
Two ways. Position preferences let you mark a preferred position for a player — your strongest arm behind the plate, say — and they’ll get at least one inning there every game, then rotate through other positions. You can also block a position a player should never play.
For the mound specifically, use Pitching Staff: tap which players pitch and Inning Wizard divides the innings among them, keeping each pitcher’s innings together. Three pitchers in a six-inning game throw two innings each. Nobody returns to the mound after coming out. Inning Wizard counts innings, not pitches thrown — if your league governs by pitch count, track that separately.
Both are available on all plans, including Free.
Save your games, then use the Balance Lineup Order button on the results page. It reorders that game’s batting order using each player’s average spot across your saved games, so whoever has been batting near the bottom moves toward the top. If you generate several games at once, each is rotated so they don’t all come out the same. There’s an undo link if you don’t like the result.
Yes. Once you have saved games, the results page shows season statistics by player and position along with playing time. It’s the quickest answer when a parent asks whether their kid is getting a fair shake — you have the record rather than a recollection.
Yes. A saved lineup can be shared as a read-only link that opens in any browser, with no account needed on their end. Season statistics can be shared the same way.
Yes. Saved games can be renamed, which helps when “Game 3” would be clearer as “vs. Tigers, May 12”.
Yes. Head to the no-account demo, type in your roster, and generate a real lineup — no signup, no credit card. Saving, printing, and season-long fairness tracking need a free account, and your roster carries over when you create one, so you won't retype a single name.
Yes, in two ways. You can generate a lineup with no account at all, and the Free plan is free forever. All paid plans also come with a 14-day free trial, and you can cancel anytime.
Yes. Your dashboard has a “Share Your Link” card with a personal referral link. Anyone who subscribes through it gets 25% off their first year, and you earn 4 free months for each one — so three referrals cover a whole year. On the Free plan your earned months are held and applied when you subscribe.
Click "Manage Subscription" on your dashboard. This opens your Stripe billing portal where you can cancel, update your payment method, or view invoices. If you cancel, you'll keep access through the end of your billing period.
Technical Questions
Yes. You can create your account and sign in with Google, or use an email address and password — whichever you prefer.
Use the “Forgot password” link on the sign-in page and we’ll email you a reset link. If it doesn’t arrive within a few minutes, check your spam folder, then write to us at the address below.
Yes. Inning Wizard works on any phone, tablet, or computer — nothing to install. You can generate and adjust lineups right from the dugout on game day.
Yes, on every plan, straight from the results page. You get two different sheets: a Dugout Copy with large text you can read at a glance, and a Coaching Copy that adds an inning-by-inning scoreboard plus a hit tracker and a small baseball diamond in each cell for charting at-bats. Print either or both. Both print in landscape so the innings stay readable.
CSV export is available on paid plans. Free plan users can print lineups directly from the results page.
Still Have Questions?
We're here to help! Reach out to our support team and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
info@inningwizard.com