About VolleyRoster
Free volleyball rotation tools for coaches, parents, and players.
What this does
VolleyRoster is a free volleyball rotation builder and live game tracker. Enter your roster once and the tool generates all six rotations for your system: the base positions at serve, a legal serve-receive formation, and the switch to attacking positions after the ball is struck, with printable per-player cards. On match day, the game tracker keeps score, follows the rotation automatically, and records quick per-player stats. There are no accounts and no paywall.
Why I built it
I'm an assistant coach at my son's youth rep club. Coaching at that level means keeping track of rotations and a few basic stats during a game, while also, ideally, watching the game.
Tools for this exist, but they're built for programs with budgets. Subscription products carrying far more functionality than someone coaching a youth team needs, where the setup takes longer than the match. I didn't want an analytics platform. I wanted to know who's supposed to be where, and to note a few things as they happened so I could look at them afterward.
So I built the small version. Enough to run a rotation and track the handful of stats that actually tell you something, with no login and no monthly fee. It helps me on the bench, and it gives the players something concrete when we talk about how a game went.
I made it for myself first. That's usually how these start.
How it works
You pick a system (5-1, 6-2, or 4-2), place your starters, and the builder shows base, serve-receive, and switch views for all six rotations. Guides cite primary rule and education sources such as the FIVB Official Volleyball Rules, Volleyball Canada Rules & Guidelines, and USA Volleyball rulebooks where those sources apply. Each guide states the version or season checked. Your local league rulebook controls when it differs. Diagrams illustrate the product's teaching model, including seven adjacency checks at service-hit alignment. They do not adjudicate every substitution, libero, or federation-specific variation. See each guide's Rule basis panel and “How VolleyRoster models legality” note for sources and limits.
What it doesn't do
VolleyRoster is not a governing body, referee association, tournament organizer, school or club authority, or legal advisor. It is not a substitute for the current official rules of your competition. Sample rosters and demo matches in the product are labelled demos, not real clubs or games. If you find an inaccurate rule explanation or broken source link, use the contact page or email hello@doublem.ca. Substantive guide corrections receive an updated “last reviewed” date on the page.
Who made it
I'm Mike Mulik, a designer in Toronto. I build free tools under the name doubleM, which is just my initials and an old nickname that stuck. Usually I make them because I ran into the problem myself and couldn't find anything that explained it simply.