A ten-game Tuesday is too much for one broadcast and too small a thing to keep refreshing a phone for. One screen carries the whole slate eight games at a time, gives the display over to your team when they tip off, and from April onwards tells you where every series stands without you counting the wins yourself.
Three kinds of slide share the same screen: the league at a glance, your own teams up close, and the tables and series that say what any of it is worth.
Most of the NBA week lands in the same three-hour block, and the board is built for exactly that. Up to eight games fit on a single slide — score, status and clock for each — sorted live games first, then the ones already finished, then tip-offs still to come. Teams you follow are pulled to the front of the board, so page one is always yours before it is anyone else’s.
All league guidesWhen your team is playing, one game takes the whole screen: score, status and clock, the tip-off time in your own time zone, both crests. In the spring the same card carries the series with it — a round label reading First Round, Conf. Semifinals, Conf. Finals or NBA Finals, and the state of the series underneath, so a glance tells you it is game four and somebody leads 2–1.
See a game cardConference tables and the division tables beneath them cycle in between the games, which is when a table is actually worth reading. Once the postseason begins a Playoff Standings slide joins the rotation instead, laying out each series that is being played — the current round and the one before it — so the screen answers “who is up?” on its own.
NHL guideTwo settings do nearly all of the work: the scope, which decides whose games are eligible for the board, and the window, which decides how much of the calendar it reaches back and forward to.
Scope for the NBA is the straightforward pair — All games or My teams. Because a full night is only a dozen or so games, most people leave it on all games and follow two or three teams on top of that. Followed teams sort to the front either way, so you get your own teams first without losing the rest of the league behind them.
Scores refresh while games are live, typically within a minute of the action. Everything above is set from your phone rather than from the screen itself, and the display updates as soon as you save — no restart, no remote. Quick presets swap the whole board in one tap when the good game turns out to be somewhere else, and the slide timing is yours to set: slower for a screen across the room, faster for one you glance at while you work.
The board is identical everywhere. What changes is the reading distance, and that is what should pick the device.
Eight games of small type are meant to be read from a sofa, which makes a second screen the natural home for the board: the main TV keeps the national game, and the ticker carries the other nine. Install from Google Play on an Android TV or Google TV, then approve a short code from your phone — you never spell out a password with a remote. The Android TV setup guide has the whole sequence.
An old iPad standing on a side table is the cheapest scoreboard in the house, and there is nothing to install: open the site in Safari and add it to the home screen. At arm’s length the full-screen game cards, with the series line under the score, read better than the dense board does. The iPad setup guide covers it, including the Auto-Lock setting that otherwise puts the screen to sleep in the fourth quarter.
On both, TickrDash asks the device to keep the screen awake while the ticker is showing, so it should still be on at the final buzzer. Any browser tab works as well — a laptop, a spare monitor, or the television’s own browser — and one screen can run several leagues at once, each with its own board and its own settings, sharing a single rotation.
Yes. The regular season and the playoffs are both covered, and from April to June the game cards change with them: each one carries the round it belongs to — First Round, Conf. Semifinals, Conf. Finals, NBA Finals — and the series status beside the score, reading as one team leading 2–1, a series tied 1–1, or a winner at 4–2. A Playoff Standings slide shows the active series together.
That is what the two settings are for. Leave the scope on All games so every game is eligible for the board, and follow your teams separately: followed teams sort ahead of everything else, so they open page one, and when one of them is playing it also gets a full-screen card of its own in the rotation.
Both. The NBA gets conference tables and division tables, and they cycle in between the games rather than sitting on a page you have to go and look at. During the postseason the Playoff Standings slide takes over that job, showing the round being played and the round before it.
Following more than one winter league? The NHL guide covers the period-and-clock cards and the Stanley Cup rounds, the college basketball guide covers the men’s and women’s Top 25 boards and the March Madness bracket, and the WNBA guide picks the summer up. The league hub lists everything with a guide, and the support page answers sign-in and billing.
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