Why clubs are leaving
legacy youth-sports software.

NBC Sports / Comcast · since 2016

A $1,500-a-year captive-payments penalty buried in your subscriber agreement. Effective take rates of 5–7% of GMV. A 2% issue-resolution rate on PissedConsumer. Your registrar isn't crazy.

Genstar Capital (PE) · since June 2025

Genstar has officially announced the platform sunset. AYSO has publicly committed to migrating to PlayMetrics. You're going to migrate either way — switch once, not twice.

Waud Capital (PE) · since April 2021

Hard no-refund clause. Auto-renewing subscriptions. Ads in the parent app with a $24/year per-device upcharge to remove them. Trustpilot rates the parent experience 1.2 out of 5 across 689 reviews. Your parents aren't imagining it.

Accel-KKR (PE) · since October 2024

Stack the 3.98% credit card fee, the $1.98 per-transaction surcharge, the $1–5 per-registrant uplift, and the $15 dispute fee that's charged whether you win or lose, and you land at roughly 5% of GMV. EZ Event Registration is 1.5%.

Independent · since 1996

Your state association mandates GotSport for sanctioning, rostering, and player passes through 2030. We won't pretend that's leaving any time soon. What we WILL do is take everything parents and coaches actually hate — registration UX, payments, comms, mobile — off GotSport's surface area.

OTTO SPORT · since January 2026

OTTO SPORT — a $16.5M seed-stage Minneapolis AI company — closed the Demosphere acquisition in January 2026. The forced rebrand and roadmap pivot is starting now. We can have you fully migrated to EZ Event Registration before the OTTO transition wraps.

Genstar Capital (via Stack Sports + PlayMetrics merger) (PE) · since June 2025

PlayMetrics acquired Crossbar in 2023. PlayMetrics merged into Stack Sports under Genstar Capital in June 2025. The platform you joined to escape PE consolidation is now part of the same conglomerate as Sports Connect, GotSport, and Affinity Sports.

Independent

If your club is under 100 players and run by parent volunteers, Jersey Watch is honestly a strong fit. The moment you add a second team, a federation tier, persistent parent accounts, or tournament workflows, the gaps start to show.

Independent · since 2007

TeamSideline does parks and rec leagues well. It's a different product than what travel and competitive clubs need — and most travel clubs end up there because someone in procurement picked it without knowing the difference.