One screen carrying the whole one o’clock window: eight games a slide, a full-screen card whenever your team is on, and the division tables in between. Set it up once and it runs itself until February.
Three kinds of slide, cycling on the same screen: the whole league at a glance, your own teams up close, and the tables that explain why any of it matters.
The one o’clock window puts nine or ten games on the clock at once. The Smart Scoreboard fits up to eight of them on a single slide — score, status and clock for each — sorted live games first, then finals, then what has not kicked off. Teams you follow are pulled to the front, so the first page is always yours.
All league guidesWhen it is your team, one game gets the whole screen: score, status and clock, the kickoff time in your own time zone, both crests. While the game is live the card carries a field-position strip showing the down, the distance and where the ball is. It disappears the moment the game goes final.
See a game cardAFC and NFC division tables, and the conference tables above them, cycle in with the games. In August, before the opening week, the standings slide is labelled Preseason so a table full of exhibition records is not mistaken for the real thing.
College football guideTwo settings do most of the work: the scope, which decides whose games are eligible, and the window, which decides how far back and forward the board looks.
Scope for the NFL is simple — All games or My teams. Because there are only sixteen or so games in a week, most people leave it on all games and follow two or three teams on top, which puts those teams at the front of every board without hiding the rest of the league.
Scores refresh while games are live, typically within a minute of the action, and you change any of this from your phone without touching the screen — the big display updates as soon as you save. Quick presets swap the whole board in one tap when the good game moves.
The board is the same everywhere. What changes is how far away you are reading it from, and that should decide the device.
The eight-game board is built to be read across a room, which makes a second TV the natural home for it — the main screen keeps the game you are actually watching, and the ticker carries the other seven. Install from Google Play and approve a short code from your phone; you never type a password with a remote. The Android TV setup guide walks through it.
An old iPad propped up beside you is the cheapest scoreboard in the house and needs no install at all — open the site in Safari and add it to the home screen. At arm’s length the full-screen game cards read better than the dense board. The iPad setup guide has the steps, including the Auto-Lock setting that stops it sleeping at the worst moment.
Either way TickrDash asks the device to keep the screen awake while the ticker is showing, so it should stay on through the fourth quarter. Any browser tab works too, on a laptop, a spare monitor or a smart TV’s own browser.
Yes. Preseason, regular season and the playoffs are all covered, so the August exhibition games appear on the board like any others. The one thing to know is that the standings slide is labelled Preseason until the opening week, because the records in it are exhibition records.
With the window on All, through the week. Sunday’s finals stay visible across the midweek dead zone and roll off when the next slate begins, and Thursday night’s game shows up on the board before it kicks off. If you would rather the screen only carried today, switch the window to Today or Live & Final instead.
Down, distance and where the ball is on the field, on the full-screen game card while the game is in progress. It is there to answer “third and what, from where?” without turning the other game on. When the game goes final the strip disappears and the card settles into a result.
Following college teams as well? The college football guide covers the Top 25 scopes that keep a Saturday readable, and the college basketball guide covers the men’s and women’s boards and the March Madness bracket. The league hub lists everything with a guide, and the support page answers sign-in and billing.
TickrDash is not affiliated with or endorsed by the NFL. League and team names are used only to describe what the app shows.
See it running before you sign up — the demo is the real product (with non-live data).