About Hardwood Club
Hardwood Club tracks a pickup basketball league: who is playing, who is on which side, and who is actually winning.
Balanced teams, not captain picks
Mark who showed up and the app splits them into two sides. It balances four things at once: skill, position coverage so neither side is five guards, chemistry between players who historically do better or worse together, and variety, so you are not playing the same matchup every week.
Ratings you never have to enter
Every player starts at 1500. Ratings move only on recorded results — the win or loss, and the margin. A 21–3 moves them more than a 21–19, and beating a stronger side moves them more than beating a weaker one. There is no manual skill input anywhere, on purpose: the moment ratings can be typed in, they stop being evidence.
Your club is yours
Each club has its own roster, schedule, ratings and history. Nothing is shared between clubs. You can export everything at any time from More → Data.
Who makes it
Hardwood Club is a PieCrust Labs project, alongside Paddle Club for table tennis. Same idea, different sport.
Questions or bugs: support@hardwoodclub.app. Privacy and legal: admin@hardwoodclub.app.
If you want to chip in
Running it costs very little, and it stays free either way — nothing unlocks, nothing is nagged about, and nobody can tell who did. If it has saved your club an argument about teams, you can chip in below. Payment is handled by Stripe; Hardwood Club never sees your card.