About Us

TableTop Sports is a small team of people who are passionate about developing tools that simplify the management of your table top sports leagues.

I started this service when I looked back at the fond memories I had playing table top sports games in my childhood. I was introduced to Strat-O-Matic Football in the mid-1980s, and took to it immediately. Armed with a pencil, a binder full of paper, and the card sets of my favorite teams, I sat down to create my own league starting with eight teams in two divisions with 10 weeks worth of games. I recorded in-game statistics for every player in each game of the inaugural season and crowned the first winner of my league. This produced pages of handwritten data for each game that I played. So I then turned my efforts to summarizing all of the individual game statistics into season statistics, so I could determine leading passers, rushers, receivers, etc. With that completed, I closed the book on the first season of my league.

Now, I had six months to wait for the next card set to become available, so the obvious solution was to play another season with the current card set. This was great because it meant I could generate two seasons for my league for every real world season. So I set out simulating the second season. I added more statistics for positions that I had not previously recorded, which meant more handwritten data to collate at the end of the season. Having completed my second season, I was beginning to learn what statistics I wanted to keep and how best to keep track of everything. Summarizing the season statistics always took many days after the end of the season and required meticulous checking and rechecking to make sure all of the numbers made sense. But there it was, my binder now had two full seasons.

When the next card set came out I decided to expand my league by adding one team to each of the divisions for a total of 10 teams. This meant more games to play and more handwritten statistics to collate, but it was always rewarding to get closure at the end of a season. And I was starting to aggregate career statistics for the players now that I had three seasons worth of statistics.

If 10 teams was good, then I thought 12 teams would be better. For the fourth season I added two more teams and a third division. I prepared for my biggest season yet, determined to track even more statistics for each player over more games. This meant even more data, and I was beginning to wish for an easier way to process all of the data I was generating.

And so it went. Now I am older and am rediscovering Strat-O-Matic games as I introduce them to my son. And I am able to build the tools that I wish I had when I was younger. I would like to share them with you with the hope that we can build a community where like-minded people can share their leagues with each other.

I hope you find these tools to be useful and fun to use.