Roster building in college basketball has become a continuous cycle. Even in the middle of the current season, coaching staffs are already tracking players who may impact next year’s roster, whether through the transfer portal, junior colleges, high schools, or internal development.
With movement accelerating and roster needs shifting quickly, managing a roster is now a true year-round process, and every staff member plays a role in maintaining names of potential fits.
To meet the demands of this new reality, Just Play has released a significant set of upgrades to its Front Office platform for basketball.
New in Player Search:
Integrating Opponent Scouting with Player Evaluation
Just Play now brings opponent scouting and player evaluation into one unified workflow. Staff members can seamlessly add evaluation notes, reference existing scouting notes, and take new personnel notes, directly within Player Search or any Watchlist. This integration ensures that insights gained from game prep and player tracking aren’t siloed but instead contribute to a more complete evaluation of every prospect.
Support for Multiple Watchlists
Different assistants evaluate different positions, regions, or transfer priorities. With support for multiple watchlists, staffs can now organize these efforts more effectively, working either collaboratively or independently to build and maintain their recruiting boards. Everyone stays aligned without stepping on each other’s work.
Flagging Unqualified Players
To reduce wasted time and redundant evaluations, Player Search now allows staffs to flag players with an “unqualified” status. This helps ensure that coaches quickly identify who has already been passed on, allowing them to stay focused on the most viable prospects.
Integrated Analytics and Synergy Video Access
With the right subscriptions in place, Player Search now integrates advanced analytics as well as Synergy video, giving staffs immediate access to the data and film necessary for quicker, more informed decisions. Evaluation becomes faster, deeper, and fully embedded in the daily workflow.
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Expanding How GMs Can Use Just Play
The expanded Boards and Budgets feature helps general managers and decision-makers build rosters with more structure, clarity, and strategic alignment to program priorities.
Secure Access and User Controls
Boards now offers enhanced security with password-protected access and customizable edit/visibility permissions. Staffs can control who sees what, ensuring sensitive roster and budget information remains protected.
Automated KPI-Driven Position Statistics
Staffs can now automate the statistics that matter most to their system, allowing them to measure every roster spot, or projected roster, against their own performance KPIs. Whether it’s shooting efficiency, rebounding rate, assist-to-turnover ratio, or defensive metrics, Boards turns raw data into actionable roster insights.
Aggregated Roster-Level Statistics
Beyond individual evaluations, aggregates key statistics across the entire roster. This ensures the team meets the baseline KPIs the staff has defined, helping identify positional deficiencies, imbalance in skill sets, or future needs before they become urgent. This elevates how you’re able to project the production you will have on your roster next season.
Budget Line Blending for NIL and Compensation Planning
In today’s landscape, staff members often need to pull from multiple budget pools to compensate athletes. Budgets now enables programs to blend pools seamlessly, making it easier to model financial decisions that impact the roster.
*Mock is simply representative of the ability to build a budget, use formulas and simplify the GM process. We do not have visibility into any specific team’s budget or player compensation data*
Building the Future of Roster Management
As roster building becomes more complex across college basketball, Just Play continues to evolve tools that keep programs organized, aligned, and competitive. These Front Office upgrades streamline the scouting-to-evaluation-to-decision pipeline, giving staffs a more dynamic and collaborative way to manage their roster 365 days a year.
Stay tuned as we plan to expand our suite even further in the next 30 days. More to come on that later.
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