What's new
What has changed in VolleyRoster, and what it means when you're actually using it.
September2026
Rotations are named for the setter.
The buttons used to read 1 through 6 in the order they were built, which isn't what those numbers mean to anybody. Rotation 1 is now the one where your setter is in position 1, and the cycle runs 1, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 — the same thing you'd call across the court.
Where the libero defends is your call.
Middle back to start with. If you keep yours at left back, flip the toggle and the diagram moves them across, with your outside sliding over to cover the middle. Nothing in the rules settles this one, so it shouldn't have been settled for you.
The in-play diagram looks like the real thing.
Setter up at the net, where the second ball actually gets set. Front row on one line. Back three level across. It used to put everybody at slightly different depths, which read less like a system and more like six players who hadn't quite lined up.
Room for 24, and a red shirt.
Twelve was never going to hold a training group or a club squad. And if someone's out for the season, mark them red shirt — they stay on the roster, they stop turning up as a sub you can bring on.
The squad card counts as you fill it.
It says “max 24” before you've added anyone and “14 of max 24” once you're going, so you know how much room is left without counting down the list.
Press a rotation to see the six you lose it in.
The season view will tell you which rotation is leaking points. Now you can tap it and there they are — who was on, what they were playing — instead of going off to work out which lineup that was.
The dashboard is a season, not a filing cabinet.
It used to be a list of games you'd already played. It now answers what you're actually asking in February: which lineup is holding up, which rotation keeps letting you down, and whether that player you keep shuffling about is genuinely better in one spot than the other.
Your season knows which six played which set.
That's the part that makes comparing lineups worth doing. A lineup's numbers are the sets that lineup was on court for — not the whole match averaged out and handed to everyone.
Lineups read in the court's own colours.
The tag beside a name in a report is the same tag on that player on the court. One colour per job, the whole way through, so you're not translating as you read.
A match comes out as a spreadsheet.
One tab per set. Open it in Excel, hand it to a parent, drop it in a folder with the rest of the season.
Sign in and your teams come with you.
Sort the lineups out on the laptop at home; they're on your phone when you get to the gym.
Leave, and take your season with you.
The download sits right beside the delete button, so you're not hunting for your own data on the way out the door.
Learn and Help live in different places now.
Learn is the reading — why a rotation works, what the rule book actually says. Help is how to do a thing in here. When they shared a shelf you were always in the wrong one.
A proper block-and-floor-defence guide.
Perimeter, rotation, where the seam goes when the ball's hit wide — on a court that moves while you read it.
Back goes back a step.
Each stage of the builder has its own address, so the back button takes you one step up the build rather than dumping you on the front page.
August2026
Put it on your home screen and it works without a signal.
Reception dies about four steps past the lobby in most gyms. Track the match anyway.
All six skills, errors and all.
Serve, receive, set, attack, block, dig. The errors matter as much as the kills when you're reading it back on Sunday.
The stat sheet is about one player at a time.
It was a wall of counts. Now you pick a player and read their match through the phases of play, which is closer to how you'd talk them through it.
Colour tells you the phase.
Serve, side-out and transition separate out at a glance, so you can see whether a problem is your serving or your receiving without doing sums.
The libero is a role, not a switch.
Say who yours replaces and how you use them, and every rotation does it properly from then on.
Change the squad after the whistle.
Someone turns up late, someone rolls an ankle in the warm-up. Sort the squad out without starting the match again.
Serve receive traced from real diagrams.
All three systems, drawn from the diagrams coaches hand out, rather than something that only looked about right.
Step through a rally.
Serve, receive, in play — one tap at a time, walking pace. Handy when you're showing a player what's meant to change and when.
A word when the set's already won.
It used to let you keep adding points to a set that finished at 25 and say nothing.
Buttons you can hit with a thumb.
Bigger rotation pills, and the help bubbles open properly on a phone. You're holding this in one hand at the side of a court.
Every game you've tracked is still there.
Open any of them and get the full report back, not a summary.
The report is built from the match itself.
Every touch you logged is still in there, so you can narrow any card down to a single set and see where it went.
Rotations named after whoever serves them.
“Maya's rotation” lands; “rotation 3” doesn't. Nobody on a bench thinks in numbers.
Every player has a page.
Their skills, their phases, their season — and you can get to it straight from the squad instead of going through a game first.
A backup file that's actually yours.
One tap and the season's on your laptop. And nothing older can land on top of something newer, so an old copy can't quietly undo a match you just tracked.
Shirt numbers required, and no two the same.
Two number sevens halfway through a third set is not a puzzle you want to be solving.
A player you took off can come back.
And deleting anything takes two deliberate presses, because nobody has ever meant to do that by accident.
Demo mode.
A full sample season, two teams, a weakness hidden in it to find. Have a proper poke about before you type in a single real name.
July2026
One squad, many lineups.
Type your players in once. Every lineup after that picks from them, so you're not writing the same fourteen names out again.
A path through the build.
Players, lineups, rotation, sets, review. You can see where you are and what's still to do.
Positions mode.
Left front, middle back, right back. If you don't run your team by “opposite” and “outside”, you don't have to start now.
Any player, any position.
The system gives you a sensible starting six, and then gets out of the way. It's a suggestion, not a rule you have to argue with.
Substitutions that don't argue with you.
It stopped policing league sub limits and re-entry. You know your competition's rules better than it does — it just records what you did.
Pick the rotation you start in.
You don't always start in 1, and now you don't have to pretend you do.
The court is drawn to scale.
A true 9-metre square, so what's on the screen is shaped like the thing in front of you.
Dark mode.
For a gym with the lights down and a phone at full brightness.
The whole builder on a phone.
Not a shrunken desktop screen — built to be used standing up.
June2026
The first version.
A rotation builder for the 5-1, 6-2 and 4-2, serve receive, the in-play switch, the libero as a proper substitution, printable cards for each player, saved teams, and a live tracker that rotates along with you.