Important End of Life Announcements effective 12-31-2025

 

CompuSports is announcing the End-of-Sale (EOS) and End-of-Life (EOL) for its Windows applications. This decision concludes our efforts to wind down our software publishing and distribution business.

 

The key dates for CompuSports published products are End of Sale (12-31-2025) and End of Life (12-31-2026). This affects the following products:

Easy-Scout Plus and Easy-Scout Professional
Athletic Equipment Manager
Easy-Recruiter

For products that CompuSports distributed on behalf of other publishers, 11-30-2025 was the date we officially stopped distributing Playmaker Pro for Windows.  This was the last remaining product that we distributed on behalf of other publishers. It is important to note that this does not in any way affect the general availability of Playmaker Pro, either for Windows or for the Mac and iOS versions. We continue to refer all inquiries about purchasing Playmaker Pro to its publisher, BW Software.  

For information about how we are handling the End of Life, which affects our support of the products, see our Support or FAQ pages for the latest information.

 

CompuSports celebrates 40 Year Anniversary

 

The year was 1984, and Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) had just released its first Macintosh computer to complement its Apple II, III and Lisa computers.

Football coaches at that time recorded and analyzed games on 16mm film, and "live scouting" of games was a common practice at the High School and Collegiate levels.   It was arguably the "dawn of the computer age" when Easy-Scout debuted for Apple II computers in February of that same year.

 

One of a handful of "scouting software programs" available at the time, Easy-Scout began as a computer science project at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA, when a member of its football coaching staff wrote a mainframe "program" to reveal opponent tendencies.  In the years that followed, Easy-Scout evolved and adapted to changes in computing technology, introducing a number of design innovations along the way.  Easy-Scout Plus and Professional remain available as inexpensive, computer software applications for Microsoft Windows and a "one-time purchase" alternative to subscription-based "cloud" applications (see compatibility notes). 

 

Coaching Forms Library updated with additional Formation Hit Charts

 

Our recently expanded Coaching Forms Library now includes additional reproducible Formation Hit Chart templates that can be used while breaking down game video, to prepare Game Plans or for in-game charting.

 

A variety of styles are available and the forms are free to download and reproduce.