The Best Flag Football Stat App for High School Coaches

StatHawk is a stat app built for flag football and nothing else. For a high school coach, that focus is the whole point. The formats, the stats, and the analysis all fit the sport you actually coach, instead of a generic template bent to fit it.

You track a game once on the sideline. StatHawk turns that into box scores, player stats, season totals, Game Recaps, a MaxPreps file, and a live link for parents. Track once, use everywhere.

Why a purpose-built app beats a spreadsheet

Most high school flag programs run stats one of three ways: a paper sheet, a shared spreadsheet, or a multi-sport platform that treats flag football as an afterthought. All three lose the same thing. They capture a final score and lose the story of the game.

StatHawk includes presets for 5v5 Standard, 5v5 Air-It-Out, 6v6, 7v7 Girls, and 7v7 Boys. It can also store and use custom format settings in the tracker. It tracks offense and defense play by play, computes stats live from the plays you record, and lets you keep scoring an already active game if service drops. Nothing to reconcile later. The box score is done when the game is.

What you get for free

The core of StatHawk is free, because you should trust the data before you pay for deeper analysis.

• Live play-by-play tracking for offense and defense
• Box scores and full player stats built from the plays you record
• Game Recaps for completed games
• Public live game links parents can open in a browser, no app or account needed
• Season stat tables and player pages

That alone replaces the stat crew most high school programs do not have.

The difference maker: the Insights

A box score tells you what happened. The Insights tells you what it means. Once you have a few tracked games, it turns your season into coaching answers, organized into four areas.

Team efficiency. Points Per Drive, Three-and-Out Rate, First Down Rate, Scoring Drive Rate, and Defensive Stops.

Players. A QB Dashboard that scores each quarterback 0 to 100 on completion rate, touchdown rate, interception avoidance, and sack avoidance. Roster Balance shows how concentrated your passing game is on one or two receivers. A Defensive Playmaker Index ranks your defenders by weighted defensive plays. Player Momentum compares a player's recent three games against their season. Player Consistency turns game-to-game swings into a reliability score.

Play calling. Your pass and run tendencies broken down by down and by score state, success rate by play type, and average drive length by how the drive ended.

Seasons. Player Development tracks how each athlete changed from their first season to their latest, and Season Power Rankings compare your completed seasons by record, scoring, and efficiency.

Points Per Drive is free. The rest of Insights, and the Insights PDF export, are part of StatHawk Pro. This is the layer built for the coach making lineup, development, and game-plan decisions.

An official MaxPreps stat import partner

StatHawk is an official MaxPreps stat import partner. Finish a game, export the file, and upload it to your MaxPreps team page. Your players get official, published stats without you entering a single line by hand.

Read the announcement: StatHawk Is Now an Official MaxPreps Stat Import Partner. Or jump to the walkthrough: How to Export Flag Football Stats to MaxPreps.

That matters more every year. As women's flag football grows toward the college level, published stats are part of the recruiting record, and MaxPreps is where that record lives.

Frequently asked questions

Is StatHawk free? Yes. StatHawk is free to download. Live game tracking, box scores, player stats, and Game Recaps are all free. the full Insights is part of Pro.

Is it built for high school flag football? Yes. StatHawk includes presets for 5v5 Standard, 5v5 Air-It-Out, 6v6, 7v7 Girls, and 7v7 Boys. It can also store and use custom format settings in the tracker. It tracks offense and defense, and it is a MaxPreps stat import partner.

What insights do I get with Pro? Team efficiency, a QB Dashboard, a Defensive Playmaker Index, player momentum and consistency, play-calling tendencies, and season-over-season development.

Does it sync to MaxPreps automatically? No. Flag football stats are uploaded manually per game on MaxPreps. StatHawk builds the file and you upload it after the game.

StatHawk is free on the App Store. Search StatHawk Flag Football Stats, or open the listing here.

Sources: MaxPreps Coach Support, Stat Import Partners (support.maxpreps.com). NCAA, Emerging Sports for Women program (ncaa.org).