FAQ

A score reaches VT Scores through four kinds of sources. Each contributes what it knows best:

1. Local news coverage. Published results in a local news outlet.
2. MaxPreps. Public schedules and reported results, including games local coverage did not reach.
3. Arbiter. The scheduling system schools use. It is the strongest source for a fixture’s date, start time, venue, and which team is home.
4. Admin and manual review. An administrator on VT Scores can correct a record when sources disagree or a school reports a change.

A game can be reported by more than one source, and the record remembers which ones contributed. When you see a result, it is backed by at least one of those sources.

We don’t publish a score we can’t trace to a source or to a person’s decision. If the evidence isn’t there, the score stays blank.

When two sources disagree, the more direct evidence wins — and a person can always settle it.

The order is:

1. A person’s decision. An admin correction is final.
2. A reported result. Local news coverage that states the score outranks a schedule page.
3. MaxPreps. It can fill a gap when no report exists, and it never overrides a reported result.
4. Arbiter. It is authoritative for the fixture itself — date, time, venue, home or away — not for the final score.

A disagreement is not averaged or smoothed over. It is raised for review, and the decision is recorded. That is also why two sites can show different scores: they may be reading different sources, updating at different times, or using a different order of authority.

If you think the score here is wrong, open the game and choose Report issue. A person will look at it.

No.

A blank tells you we don’t know. A guess would tell you something false, and you would have no way to tell the difference.

In practice that means:

• A missing score stays missing until a source reports it.
• An incomplete record is not filled in from a similar game, a previous season, or an average.
• A game we cannot identify with confidence is left out rather than published against the wrong teams.
• A stat line that cannot be matched to a player keeps the number and leaves the name blank.

This is a deliberate trade: we would rather show you a gap than a number that looks right.

A score can be missing for a few ordinary reasons:

• The game hasn’t been played yet. It appears as an upcoming fixture, not a result.
• Nobody has reported it yet. Coverage is not instant; a result appears after a report is published and processed.
• The game was postponed, canceled, or moved. The result may never exist, or may arrive on the new date.
• The teams couldn’t be identified with confidence. We won’t attach a score to the wrong school to make a page look complete.
• The sport or level is outside what we publish. Coverage varies by sport and by season.

If you know a result exists and it is still missing after a day or two, open the game — if there is one — and use Report issue, or use Contact in the footer with the date, teams, and final score.

Scores can change, and that is usually a sign the system is working.

Common reasons:

• A school or coach reported a correction.
• A news outlet corrected its own story.
• A forfeit, retirement, or official ruling changed the result.
• A schedule page reposted a game with a different score, and the reported result was restored.

A change is a decision, not an automatic overwrite. When sources disagree, a person resolves it rather than letting the last page fetched win.

If you see a score change and wonder why, use Contact in the footer with the matchup and date.

“Last updated” is the date the data behind the page was last refreshed, not a live clock.

VT Scores is updated on a daily cycle. A game that ended last night may not appear until the next run, and a correction may need review before it lands. The date tells you how fresh the page is so you can judge what you are looking at.

If the date is today, the page reflects the most recent update. If it is older, a newer result may exist but not yet be published.

The freshness note on the home page tells you the same thing for the front-page desk.

VT Scores is built around varsity competition.

Some sources also list junior varsity, freshman, or middle school games. Those listings are not part of the public scoreboard: mixing levels would make records and standings misleading, and a JV result is not the varsity record a family or coach is looking for.

If a varsity game is missing, that is a different problem — see Why is a score missing? and report it.

Tournaments and postseason games follow the same rule: varsity competition is what we publish.

Yes, when a Vermont team is involved.

A Vermont school playing an opponent from New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, or elsewhere appears in the Vermont team’s season. The opponent is recorded as an out-of-state school, and the game counts for the Vermont team’s record.

What we do not cover is another state’s own leagues, standings, and postseason. A New Hampshire school appears because a Vermont team played it, not because we follow New Hampshire sports.

Games between two out-of-state schools are outside scope.

Scheduled games come from the schools themselves.

Schools publish their schedules in Arbiter, the scheduling system used for Vermont athletics. MaxPreps also publishes schedules for many teams. VT Scores mirrors those public schedules so families, players, and coaches can plan around a game before it is played.

A scheduled game is a plan, not a result. It carries the opponent, date, start time, venue, and which team is home — the details a schedule is supposed to answer. It becomes a result only when the game is played and reported.

When a school changes its schedule, the change is picked up the next time the source is refreshed.

Usually one of three things:

• The school hasn’t published it yet. Schedules are entered by schools and conferences, not by VT Scores.
• The source hasn’t been refreshed. Changes appear on the next update cycle.
• The game falls outside the season we are publishing. We show the current season and the seasons in the archive; a future season may not be open yet.

If a game is missing from a schedule you know is published, use Contact in the footer with the school, sport, and date. If the school’s own schedule is missing it, the school’s athletic office is the place to fix it — once it is published there, it can reach VT Scores.

The school’s schedule is the source of truth, and VT Scores mirrors it.

When a school moves a game, changes the start time, or switches the venue, the next refresh picks up the change. Postponements and weather decisions can be posted late, so a page can lag the school’s own announcement for a short time.

If you are deciding whether to travel to a game, check the school’s or conference’s schedule as well. The game page shows what the source says; it is not a live feed from the athletic director.

If a change is wrong here and the school’s schedule shows the correct details, use Contact in the footer and include a link to the school’s page.

A projected date is a placeholder, not a confirmed fixture.

In a bracket, the round and date may be known before the teams are. We show the slot with the date the bracket gives, and label it projected so it is not mistaken for a scheduled game. It becomes a real fixture when the earlier round resolves and the matchup is set.

A projected date can move. Treat it as a planning hint until the bracket fills the slot.

Yes. Sport hubs and school hubs offer Add calendar next to the season controls.

You can:

• Subscribe to a calendar that updates as the season changes.
• Add it to Google Calendar on desktop.
• Copy the link or download an .ics file.

A subscription covers the recent past and the season ahead, so scores and upcoming games stay together. It is a snapshot of published data — if a game moves, the calendar updates when the feed next refreshes.

A bracket is a living document, and VT Scores treats it that way.

For team playoffs, the bracket is read from the public bracket page. Seeds, rounds, and matchups are recorded into the bracket slot, and the game behind each slot is linked to the result. When a result is reported, it fills the slot and the next round becomes clearer.

For individual tennis, the state association publishes a bracket PDF. That bracket is imported, every school and player is resolved, and each match is reviewed by a person before it is published.

When a bracket hasn’t named a matchup yet, the slot shows a placeholder rather than an invented opponent. When the earlier round resolves, the slot fills.

A bye means a team advanced without playing a game.

It is recorded in the bracket because it is part of the tournament structure, but it is not a game and it never counts as a win or a loss. It does not change a team’s record or standings.

That distinction matters: a bracket can show a team in the next round without that team having won a game on the field. The bracket shows the path; the record only counts games actually played.

Because the opponent hasn’t been decided yet.

A bracket has to hold a slot before the earlier round is played. VT Scores shows that slot as a placeholder or “TBD” rather than guessing which team will advance. When the earlier game is reported, the winner fills the slot and the next matchup becomes a real fixture.

If a slot stays unresolved after the round it depends on has finished, use Contact in the footer with the bracket and round.

Champions and runners-up are read from the games, not typed into a separate list.

A tournament’s final game produces the champion (the winner) and the runner-up (the loser). Semifinal losers are recorded as semifinalists. Those outcomes then appear beside the team in standings and season retrospectives.

Tennis brackets are individual brackets, so they are handled differently from team playoffs.

The state association publishes a bracket PDF for singles and doubles. That document is the source. VT Scores imports the bracket, resolves every school and player against the directory, and stages each match for review. A person checks the matches before they are published.

The result is a bracket where each match is a real record with a round and a position, including byes, walkovers, and retirements. It also feeds the tennis stats and rankings: a tournament match earns points like a dual match, scaled up by how deep the round goes.

Team brackets come from the team tournament source instead. The two kinds of bracket meet on the same season page, but they are built from different sources.

Tennis players are ranked by an index shown on the tennis stats page. The index is a single number for the season, built from every result a player earned and weighted by where they played it.

Where the weight comes from

A win at No. 1 singles or No. 1 doubles is worth more than lower lineup positions.

The lineup ladder is:

Position	Value
No. 1 singles / No. 1 doubles	100
No. 2 singles / No. 2 doubles	60
No. 3 singles	36
No. 4 singles	22
No. 5 singles	13

Tournament matches scale up from there by round, from 100 in the first round to 506 in a final.

What the result was worth

A win earns the full weight. A straight-set loss still earns a fifth of it because the match happened, and a match-tiebreak loss earns half. A wider game margin adds a little on top.

Why more matches move the number

The index rewards a player who keeps winning, not one who won once. It is the average points per match, lifted by how many matches were played, so two players with the same average are separated by how long they sustained it.

What the index leaves out

Opponent strength. A win over the top seed and a win over an unseeded player at the same position and round carry the same weight.

Singles and doubles are ranked separately because they are different competitions. Singles shows by default and doubles is its own view. A player needs at least three matches to appear, and the table lists the top 50.

Because an index built on one or two matches says more about the schedule than about the player.

The ranked tennis table requires at least three matches. Below that, a single win or loss can move the index a long way, and the number is not a meaningful description of a season.

The minimum is a floor, not a judgment. A player with fewer matches can still be part of the season record; they are just not ranked yet.

As matches accumulate, one result matters less to the total, and the index becomes a more honest description of the season.

A team’s record counts completed varsity games.

• Only games with a final score count.
• A tie counts as half a win in the winning percentage.
• A forfeit counts as the source records it.
• A tournament game counts toward the season record.
• A co-op’s result belongs to every member school, so each member carries the same record for that team.

Records are built from the same games you can open on the site. If a game is wrong, the record follows the correction.

Standings answer a simple question: who is ahead?

Within each division, the order is:

1. Most wins.
2. Highest winning percentage (a tie counts as half a win).
3. Most points scored.
4. Fewest points allowed.
5. Team name, as a final, stable tiebreak.

We don’t apply a hidden tiebreaker or a projection. The columns are shown so the published order can be checked.

A few things can separate teams with the same win-loss record:

• Division vs. overall. A team can be first in its division and third overall, because the two tables answer different questions.
• Games played. Wins come first, then winning percentage: a 6-2 team ranks above a 3-1 team at the same .750 percentage.
• Points for and against. When wins and percentages match, scoring separates the teams.
• A co-op. A combined team’s record belongs to every member school, so a member’s line can look different from a single-school team’s.
• A correction. A forfeit or corrected result can move a team without changing the number you remember.

The standings columns are shown so the order can be checked, not taken on faith.

Open the game and choose Report issue.

Include what you can:

• The date and the two teams.
• The correct score, or the detail that is wrong (date, venue, team name, player).
• A link or a photo of a source if you have one — a school schedule, a scorebook, a news report.

You don’t need an account. Email is optional; if you include one, it is only used to follow up on the report.

If the game is missing entirely, use Contact in the footer instead, with the same details.

Your report is sent to the person who runs VT Scores. It is not posted publicly, and it does not edit the score automatically.

A person checks it against the sources: the reported result, the school’s schedule, and the record already stored. If the report is confirmed, the correction is applied in the admin console. The game record updates, and the page serves the corrected value after the next refresh.

If the report conflicts with the source of record, you may be asked for a link or a photo. A correction that cannot be supported is not applied — but it is still read, and it can reveal a real gap.

The public page shows the corrected value. On our side, a correction is a recorded change, not a silent rewrite.

That matters for two reasons:

• A score can be checked against the sources that produced it.
• A later report can be answered with what changed and why, instead of starting from scratch.

We don’t publish a public change log, but corrections are not lost, and they are not applied by an automated guess.

Open the game again after the next update. The corrected score or detail is what the page shows.

If you included an email address in the report, you may get a reply when the report is reviewed. Email is optional; the report still reaches us without it.

If a correction you reported is still not reflected after a couple of days, send a follow-up with Contact in the footer and the same matchup and date.

Yes. VT Scores is free to use.

There is no paywall and no advertising. The site is a community project run by one Vermont coach, and the goal is a single place to check scores, schedules, standings, and postseason results — not a subscription product.

VT Scores is built and maintained by one Vermont high school coach, with help from the community.

That shapes the product: it is intentionally small, it favors a reliable record over a flashy feature, and it is runnable by one person. Reports from fans, families, and coaches are part of how the record stays accurate.

Read more on the About page.

VT Scores covers Vermont high school sports across fall, winter, and spring.

The current season is the front door: scores, schedules, standings, stats, and postseason results for the sports we publish. Past seasons stay available in school and sport hubs, so a season does not disappear when it ends.

Coverage is not identical across every sport. A sport appears when we have a reliable source for its schedule or results. If a sport you follow is missing, use Contact in the footer and say which one — it helps prioritize what to add.

The history archive indexes the Vermont Sports History PDF collection — championship results and postseason documents from past seasons.

Those documents are hosted by Vermont Sports History, and the links open there in a new tab. VT Scores indexes and organizes them; it does not rewrite the PDFs.

The archive is a companion to the live record: the current season is built from schedules and reports, and the historical seasons are preserved as published.

Yes. The coverage archive links to local newsroom stories about Vermont high school sports.

A few things to know:

• We link to the story at its source; we don’t republish the article.
• Some stories may require a subscription, and the listing notes that context where the source requires it.
• Being included is not an endorsement. The archive is a reading list, not an editorial page.
• Coverage rotates over a retained window, so older links eventually leave the archive.

The scoreboard is separate from the coverage feed. A story can be linked without changing a score, and a score can stand without a story.

No. VT Scores is independent.

It is not run by a school, a conference, the state athletic association, or a newsroom. It gathers public schedules, published coverage, and official tournament brackets, and it links back to the sources rather than speaking for them.

That independence is the point: one statewide place that any town can use, without belonging to any single school or outlet.

If you need an official ruling — eligibility, seeding, a forfeit — the school or the state association is the authority. VT Scores reports what they publish.