Minutes on court — and why we just shipped it.

Quick one. We just rolled out something a lot of parents have been asking for: minutes on the court. KidGOAT now tracks how long your kid actually plays in each game — and surfaces it on their player page right next to points, rebounds, steals, and blocks.

What it looks like

When you open the live tracker on a game, the toggle sits near the top — green and pulsing when your kid's on the floor, gray when they're on the bench:

It's on by default — most kids are on the floor at tip-off, so we figured the parent shouldn't have to remember to flip it. When the coach subs your kid out, just tap once. The timer pauses (gray state on the right). When they sub back in, tap again — the clock keeps adding to the same running total for the game.

Where it shows up

Three places, all already live:

• The game log on your kid's page. A new "MIN" column shows how long they were in for each game (M:SS).
• The season averages strip. A new MPG cell appears alongside PPG / RPG / SPG / BPG — but only after you've tracked at least one game with minutes, so old games don't drag the average to zero.
• The Trends section. A fourth chart joins Points / FT / 3-pointers, plotting minutes-per-game over time. Hover any dot to see that specific game:

The y-axis is labeled in minutes (the latest game's value sits in the corner), and the dashed line under the curve is your kid's season average. Hover any dot and a tooltip pops with the exact game and value.

Why we built it

Two reasons.

For the kid: stat totals without context can be misleading. A kid who plays 3 minutes a game and scores 4 points is having a different season than a kid who plays 25 minutes and scores 4 points. Minutes give the points (and the rest of the box score) the context they deserve. It also rewards the kid who's grinding through long stretches without big numbers — the rebounds, the deflections, the help defense.

For the parent: playing time is the single thing youth-sports parents talk about with each other more than anything else. Now you have an honest number for it. No counting in your head while watching, no debating with the coach in the parking lot — just a real ticker on your phone, paused and resumed with one tap.

Tracking minutes is the difference between knowing your kid had a good game and knowing exactly how good — relative to how much time they actually got.

A few details

• Co-trackers each toggle their own. Different kids sit the bench at different times, so each parent flips their own kid on and off. No central source of truth needed.
• End the game with the timer still on? Fine — we add the final stretch automatically when you save. You don't have to remember to toggle off first.
• Old games stay blank. Anything tracked before this feature shows a dash in the MIN column instead of "0:00." We're not going to retroactively claim your kid played zero minutes — they played, we just weren't measuring yet.

Try it tonight

Next time your kid has a game, open the live tracker like you normally would. The green pulsing pill is the on-court toggle — just tap it when they're subbed out, tap again when they're back in. Everything else is automatic.

If something feels off — the timer drifts, the average looks wrong, the chart doesn't show up — let me know. The point of doing this in real games with real parents is to find the rough edges quickly.

— Adam