Tryout Evaluation Form (Printable Template)

Assign each evaluator to a station, not to a group of players, so every player is scored by every coach on the criteria that coach can actually see. Keep each evaluator to two or three rows of the form per station: the speed rows at the athleticism station, the skill rows at technical stations, and game sense, compete level, and coachability during scrimmage.

Afterward, total the scores, then sort. The top of your list and the bottom will be obvious; spend your discussion time on the middle, where the notes column is what makes bubble conversations productive.

The pack upgrades everything on this page into print-ready and editable files: individual player sheets, a full team sheet with one row per player and totals that calculate themselves, and a draft board that ranks the group from the scores. It comes in the any-sport version or matched to your sport's template.

This paper form is the manual version of what Rizzler does digitally. Rizzler's Player Skill Assessments let every coach on your staff score players on custom rubrics from their phone, with results totaled and ranked automatically instead of collected from clipboards. For selection events, the team tryouts feature runs the whole event: registration, check-in, evaluation scoring, and rankings in one place. If you are running tryouts for a club or league at scale, see how programs use Rizzler for team tryouts.

For a deeper walkthrough of what to score sport by sport and how to calibrate your evaluators, read the guide on what to put on a tryout evaluation form.

Eight to ten. Fewer than six and you cannot separate similar players; more than twelve and evaluators start guessing on rows they never actually observed. The template above uses ten rows, and most programs trim it to eight for younger age groups.

Every player should be scored on every criterion, but not necessarily by every coach. Assign evaluators to stations and give each one only the rows they can see from that station. Players rotate through, so each player still ends up with a complete form built from multiple coaches.

For this printable form, use 1 to 5: with a pen in hand and players rotating fast, a five-point scale is quick to mark and easy to keep consistent, and a 6-versus-7 call is hard to make live. If you're scoring digitally instead, default to 1 to 10: an app anchors every number for you and does the math, so the extra resolution helps rather than hurts, and a 10-point score normalizes to a percentage that makes ranking a big group and comparing across events much cleaner. The 20-to-80 scouting scale (50 is average, ten points per grade) is a good fit for baseball and softball staffs who already think that way. The rule holds across all three: define what each number means before the first player steps on the field.

Yes. Speed, agility, receiving, defense, game sense, compete level, and coachability apply to every team sport. For baseball, softball, volleyball, football, and flag football, use the sport selector above to get that sport's exact template; for everything else, rename the two primary skill rows before printing.

Both formats are on this page, and they answer different questions. The per-player sheet gives you deep scoring with a note per criterion, best for small groups and station work. The compact roster sheet puts the whole group on one page for fast side-by-side comparison, best for big fields and a single evaluator covering many players. Many staffs run roster sheets at stations and a per-player sheet for bubble players.