1. + New Game — pick the sport and both teams. A saved team loads with its lineup; mark your own as ★ My team (Setup → Teams) and it is picked for you. A new team just needs a name — the jersey keypad opens for it. The look, sound and sponsors come from your last game.
2. The checklist at the top of the game walks you through teams, lineups, positions and the overlay link.
3. ⚙ Setup → Overlay link → Copy, and add it to OBS as a Browser source (below). You only do this once: the link is yours, not the game's, and it shows whichever game you open on the pad.
4. Score from the pad. The overlay updates instantly. Keep the pad open — it holds the screen awake while a game is open.

Practice first: ▶ Demo Mode on the Overlay link screen plays a fake game in a practice game of its own, so your real one stays clean.

• BALL · STRIKE · FOUL for pitches. Ball four walks the batter and pushes the forced runners; strike three asks swinging, looking or dropped.
• IN PLAY asks what happened — a hit, an error or fielder’s choice, or the kind of out — then who fielded it, then (with runners on) where everyone ended up, already filled in.
• The diamond on the pad shows who’s on. Tap a runner for a steal, caught stealing, pickoff, wild pitch or passed ball.
• MORE: hit by pitch, catcher’s interference, intentional walk, balk.
• Runs, strikeouts, walks, hits and outs fire their own animation. The third out ends the half and puts Mid-Inning on the stream.
• ↶ Undo reverses the last play. For anything else that drifted, tap the count bar at the top: that is the Situation screen, with every correction and 🏁 End game.
• Tap the batter line for the Lineup. ⌨ Jersey numbers there takes a lineup card at game time: tap each number in batting order and hit Next; names can wait. 📋 Paste a list reads one player per line. 🧢 Field on the bottom bar sets positions by jersey number; an opponent's are optional. A new pitcher gets his own pitch count.

Sources → + → Browser, name it “Scorebug”:

• URL — the overlay link from Setup. Width 1920 · Height 1080, FPS 30.
• Uncheck “Shutdown source when not visible”.
• Check “Control audio via OBS” so the sounds reach the stream.
• Page permissions decide how much of OBS the pad may run: No access — everything on the overlay; Basic — plus 🎞️ Replay; Advanced — plus 🎥 Cameras and the replay buffer; Full — plus Go live and Record.

Place and size the bug from Setup → Scorebug, theme & sound, not by resizing the source.

For a laptop at the field: 1920×1080 at 30 FPS, the hardware encoder (Apple VT or NVENC), CBR 6000 kbps, and recording set to “Same as stream” so the game isn’t encoded twice. Every extra camera costs more than everything else combined.

• Replay: in OBS, Settings → Output → enable the Replay Buffer at 90 seconds, and Settings → General → start it automatically when streaming. 🎞️ Replay on the bottom bar saves a clip; Auto-clip big plays (Setup → OBS) waits out the celebration first.
• Cameras: one OBS scene per camera. Add the scorebug to each with + → Browser → “Add Existing” — never a second browser source. 🎥 Cameras on the bottom bar then cuts between them.
• No OBS? Turn off Show OBS buttons in Setup → OBS and those buttons get out of the way.

• Overlay looks stale after an update — right-click the source → Refresh. OBS caches hard.
• Only part of the bug shows — the source has to be 1920×1080.
• No sound on the stream — check “Control audio via OBS” on the source.
• Nothing is updating — the dot in the game header is green when synced, red while reconnecting. It heals itself, and the overlay never blanks.
• The overlay link is a password. It can read your lineups. If it leaks, 🔑 Rotate link on the Overlay link screen kills every old link, and you paste the new one into OBS. The recap link is safe to share: score and line score only.