LEAGUE MANAGER FAQ
To get started, create your leagues in League Manager and enter the basic information such as number of teams, bowlers, schedule, and rules. If you want help with your first league setup, our team can assist you. Contact us and we’ll walk you through the onboarding step by step.
Learn more: Create a new league
The League Manager license fee is $500 per year. This includes full access for one center — all features, all updates, and full support. There are no hidden costs.
The license covers unlimited leagues and unlimited League Manager accounts for your center. League bowlers can use the free version of the LaneTalk app to follow live standings and view season stats.
Important: Selected centers may join our beta program and use the platform free of charge for a three month trial. If you’re interested, reach out to leagues@lanetalk.com for more information.
Yes. You can start a league at any point during the season. If your center has been connected to our platform previously, all scores from earlier weeks are already stored in our archive database. This allows you to import the completed weeks — including team names, bowler names, and all historical scores — directly into League Manager.
Once the scores are imported, League Manager will:
• Automatically calculate standings
• Update bowler statistics and averages
• Apply handicaps and rules based on your league settings
• Ensure all past matches are correctly reflected in the schedule
This makes it easy to pick up a league mid‑season without needing to manually enter past results.
You can import historical scores using the import tool. Make sure to add Fun Nights or Position Rounds first, as they affect the schedule structure.
Learn more: Import historical scores
Absolutely. League Manager allows you to fully customize handicap rules and scoring formats so they match your league’s specific requirements. You can configure these settings during league setup or adjust them at any time.
The platform supports a wide range of scoring formats, including:
• Head-to-head individual games and series
• Highest individual game or series
• Total team score and team series
• Team grand total and highest team game
These options give leagues the flexibility to reward performance in different ways, based on your scoring criteria and competitive structure (with or without the use of HDCP).
Yes — League Manager supports a wide range of Honor and Award scores, and you can fully customize how they are used in your league. These settings can be configured directly in League Manager and applied on a weekly, split, or season long basis.
Once configured, the Honor and Award scores will automatically appear in The standings print out and in the LaneTalk app.
Learn more about how to configure Honor and Award scores
Yes. League Manager supports playoffs including brackets and stepladder formats. You can configure these under the league settings. Learn more in this video
Yes, even if we prefer to keep everything in the app, you can still download and print Recaps, Standings and empty scoresheet.
Open your league, tap on Weekly Standings and then select the Download menu. Make sure that you have selected the week that you like to print before you tap on the report that you would like to download.
It will be saved as a PDF file in your Downloads folder. Open the PDF and select Print and select your printer.
The PDF report also include a QR code which will take the bowler to the corresponding league in the app.
Your center is connected to our live scoring platform. This means that every score sent from your scoring system is analyzed in real time. If the scores are received during your defined league time, and they match your league setup (team names, lane assignments, etc.), they will be automatically imported into League Manager.
This ensures that your league standings, bowler stats, and match results stay up to date without manual input.
If your center has been connected to our platform for a longer period, your previous season’s scores are already stored in our archive database.
These can be imported directly into League Manager, including:
• Team names
• Bowler names and averages
• Historical scores
This makes it easy to recreate past seasons and use them as a template when setting up a new league — without manually entering all teams and bowlers again.
Learn more: Historic score import
If your center temporarily loses internet connection during a league night, scores will not be transmitted to LaneTalk in real time. In these situations, you can use our manual scorekeeping sheet to enter the total score for each bowler in the team (go to the weekly standing for the selected week and scroll down below the standings list and tap on Quick add scores button).
This is only needed when your center is offline. Under normal circumstances, all scores are sent automatically, and you never need to enter scores manually. Any score adjustments made on the lanes will also be automatically updated in League Manager once the connection is restored.
You can add pre bowl or post bowl scores directly in the match view. Tap Add scores, then use the filter function to search and filter all available games (remove the date if you like to search on all dates for example). This makes it easy to locate the correct scores and assign them to the right bowler.
League Manager will automatically update the standings and bowler stats.
Learn more in the pre-bowl and post-bowl video
Go to the team roster and add or edit bowlers as needed. If a bowler is missing, League Manager will flag it in the Exception Report.
Learn more about editing team line-ups and using the Exception report.
You can add substitutes and manage absent bowlers in the match view.
Learn more here about editing team line ups.
Yes. Bowlers can update their profile and statistics in the LaneTalk app. They can also visit the League tab in the app, locate their league and tap on the Notification icon on the top of the page. Navigate to your team and select your player name and the app will automatically save your scores to your app profile every week and send you a notification about the lane pairing and schedule as soon as it is available.
You can manage all bowlers by tapping the BOWLERS link at the top of the page, which opens the Master Bowler List. From here, you can search for any bowler and update their information as needed.
Typical actions include:
• Edit contact details
• Set gender (required for gender‑specific Honor and Award scores)
• Merge duplicate player accounts
• View the Average Report, showing all scores and averages across every league the bowler participates in
The Master Bowler List gives you a complete overview of each bowler’s history, making it easy to keep profiles accurate and up to date.
Yes. You can override lane assignments manually for any week.
Learn more about lane assignment and lane pairing
Yes. League Manager supports USBC lane assignment templates. You can reset the schedule under the league settings, Basic tab. Tap on the calendar week on the bottom of the page and select reset lane assignment and select the USBC week schedule to apply.
By using the League Manager, bowlers can get access to powerful stats and insight about their individual play and their league play using the Lanetalk app. The app provides detailed bowler stats, pin‑leave insights, team performance trends, and league‑wide analytics.
General season stats are provided for free, while the detailed comparisons and drill-down features on team and individual basis, week-by-week analysis etc is provided as part of the Pro subscription. Season standings and the latest weekly standing is also provided for free.
Bowlers can view all their stats in the LaneTalk app, including historical performance and PBA‑style insights.
You can download ready made promotional materials such as monitor ads, posters, and flyers. You can find them on the Welcome onboard website.
Most scoring systems allow you to upload images via their media manager. Follow this guide on how to put the Lanetalk ad on your Qubica Conqueror screens.
Yes. Download the flyer PDF and print it for distribution in your center.
You can find them on the Welcome onboard website.
Yes. You can export rosters using our separate Windows application that connects League Manager to your scoring system. This will ease the process of sending the roster files to your scoring system.
If your center has been connected to our platform for a longer period, your previous season’s scores are already stored in our archive database.
These can be imported directly into League Manager, including:
• Team names
• Bowler names and averages
• Historical scores
This makes it easy to recreate past seasons and use them as a template when setting up a new league — without manually entering all teams and bowlers again.
Learn more: Historic score import
We currently support Qubica Conqueror X, version 14 and later. Contact us if you need help verifying compatibility.
We are working toward broader support for additional scoring systems, including Brunswick Sync and Steltronic Focus NEX. While we cannot share a specific release timeline yet, these integrations are part of our long term roadmap and will be introduced in future updates.
Yes. We can create multiple accounts with access to specific leagues.
Just contact us and tell us which leagues each user should have access to.
Yes. Access can be limited per league or per center. Reach out to us to get help to set up. Leagues@lanetalk.com.
