We're a B2B youth soccer player assessment and curriculum platform. We replace subjective scouting with measurable, evidence-based development, built on our SportsRubrIQ Game Taxonomy™.

Clubs, organizations, and individual teams — anyone who can import a roster. Club leadership uses us for oversight, coaches for assessment and planning, and parents/players for progress tracking.

Mark Bickham — 40+ years of coaching experience, a USSF B License, a former professional indoor soccer player (Milwaukee Wave, Sacramento Knights, Tacoma Stars), co-founder of Starfire Sports, and author of the Bend It With Bickham™ book series.

American youth soccer conflates athleticism with soccer quality and sells competition access as development. There's no shared measurement infrastructure to prove a player is actually improving — we built SportsRubrIQ to be that missing layer.

A closed, falsifiable taxonomy of the game — our 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 system. It gives every action on the field a defined name, so coaches can teach and measure it consistently instead of relying on opinion.

Our SOAR Index™ measures frequency — how often a player performs a skill correctly (Seldom, Often, Always, Refined). Our SDUO™ measures quality — how deeply a player understands it (See It, Do It, Use It, Own It).

Our SOAR scale isn't just four simple steps. Seldom, Often, and Always show how a player grows over time. Refined is different — it's the top level, true mastery, set to match Stage 5, our highest stage. If a player earns a Refined score at an earlier stage, that's not just a normal "perfect score." It means the player is an outlier — someone doing something far beyond what's expected for their stage. That's why we teach coaches to give Refined scores carefully and honestly. If it's handed out too easily, the score stops meaning anything. Our whole system only works if Refined stays rare and true.

Our formation system, built on a simple idea: every team shape fits inside a circle. What matters isn't the circle — it's the smaller shapes inside it that players actually create and use: the triangles, diamonds, squares, and rectangles formed through rondos. We cross-walk these shapes to all 10 adult formations and 9 youth formations, along with tactical skills and attacking/defending objectives — so players learn to read and build on the field the same shapes they first learn in a rondo.

It's the core principle of our assessment doctrine: a single great or bad play doesn't define a player's level. We base evaluation on a documented pattern of evidence over time, not a highlight or a bad day.

Fundamental (5–7, 7v7), Emergent (8–10, 9v9), Applied (11–13, 11v11), Proficient (14–16, 11v11), and Refined (17–18, 11v11).

No. We base stage placement on evidence, not birth year — a player advances when their SOAR and SDUO record supports it, not because a season ended.

Approximately 265 individually defined skills and concepts across the five stages, covering technical, tactical, physical, psychological, and goalkeeping development.

Each stage has its own purpose-built curriculum appropriate to how players actually develop at that age.

Three times per season: formative (early-season baseline), ongoing (mid-season check), and summative (end-of-season evidence review).

Formal assessments are checkpoints — they're not where development actually happens. The Tracker is where the real work gets done, in the days and weeks between those checkpoints. Every daily log a player builds becomes part of the evidence a coach draws on later. So when we assign a summative score at the end of the season, it isn't based on how a player performed in one evaluation window — it's backed by months of logged reps showing the pattern of improvement. The Tracker turns "trust me, I've been working on it" into a real, dated record a coach can actually score against. In short: formal assessments tell you where a player landed. The Daily Skills Tracker is how they got there — and it's what makes the summative score defensible instead of a guess.

No — that's the point. SOAR and SDUO require coaches to observe against a fixed rubric, the same way a trained educator scores classwork, replacing gut-feeling scouting with consistent, repeatable evaluation.

No — we assess all five domains. Our skill library spans technical, tactical, physical, psychological, and goalkeeping development markers appropriate to each stage.

Those platforms handle rosters, scheduling, and payments. We built SportsRubrIQ as a development and assessment layer — we answer, "is this player actually improving," which roster-management tools aren't built to do.

CSV import gets a full roster in quickly, with direct integrations available depending on your current system. Manual entry also works for smaller rosters or single-team onboarding.

Most clubs are fully onboarded and assessing players within a single preseason window.

We designed the rubric-based system to be intuitive for anyone coaching at the relevant stage, though we provide onboarding support and assessment doctrine documentation to get every coach speaking the same language.

Plain-language progress reports built off the same underlying SOAR and SDUO data coaches use — without the full rubric detail coaches need.

Yes. We build our data practices around COPPA, FERPA, CCPA, and GDPR requirements, detailed fully in our Privacy Policy and Data Processing Agreement.

Clubs retain ownership of their roster and assessment data; specific terms are laid out in our SaaS Subscription Agreement.