HoopBrief vs Just Play Sports Solutions
Just Play Sports Solutions is a playbook and game-planning platform used widely across college basketball. Its job is distribution: take the plays, scouting reports, and install material your staff has already produced, and get them into players' hands in a format they will actually study, with quizzes and accountability tracking on top. Pricing splits in two: the team platform is quote-only with no published price, while My Just Play, a separate single-coach product, publishes tiers openly at $13/month or $120/year for Basic and $20/month or $180/year for Pro, each a single user, with a 14-day free trial. HoopBrief sits one step upstream. It produces the scouting content, the matchup plan, the coverage decisions, the tendencies, in about five seconds, at published pricing of $9.99 to $999/month. Just Play answers "did my players read the scout?" HoopBrief answers "what should the scout say?"
- Published pricing, $9.99 to $999 per month
- About 5 seconds to a scouting brief
- No film upload, no tagging, no analyst
The free scout needs no account and no card.
Side-by-side snapshot
| Feature | HoopBrief | Just Play Sports Solutions |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | $9.99/mo (Starter), $999/mo (Pro), published | Team platform quote-only. My Just Play (single coach) published: $13/mo or $120/yr Basic, $20/mo or $180/yr Pro |
| Core job | Generates the scouting report | Distributes the scouting report to players |
| Who creates the content | AI, in ~5 seconds | Your staff, manually |
| Player accountability | No | Yes, quizzes and view tracking |
| Playbook / install management | No | Yes, this is the core product |
| Opponent tendency analysis | Yes, generated from NBA data | No, you supply the analysis |
| Self-serve signup | Yes | No, sales-led |
Where HoopBrief wins
Where Just Play Sports Solutions wins
The verdict
HoopBrief is best for
Coaches who need the analysis itself produced faster, especially staffs too small to spend a day per opponent building a scout from scratch.
Just Play Sports Solutions is best for
Programs whose bottleneck is player preparation and accountability rather than analysis, and who already have staff producing strong scouting content.
Try it on a real matchup
Pick an attacker and a defender and read what HoopBrief writes: the attack plan, the guard plan, and the read when the first option is gone. Free, no account.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Just Play Sports Solutions cost?
It depends which product you mean, and the two are easy to confuse. The full Just Play team platform is quote-only, with no published price, and cost varies by level and program size. My Just Play, the separate single-coach product, does publish pricing: Basic at $13/month or $120/year, Pro at $20/month or $180/year, each limited to one user, with a 14-day free trial. If you priced Just Play from the My Just Play page and expected a staff-wide license, you were looking at the wrong product. HoopBrief publishes pricing openly at $9.99/month for Starter and $999/month for Pro.
Do HoopBrief and Just Play compete?
Only loosely. Just Play is a playbook and game-plan distribution platform, its value is getting material in front of players and confirming they studied it. HoopBrief generates matchup analysis. A staff can reasonably run both: HoopBrief produces the scouting content, Just Play packages and delivers it to the roster.
Can HoopBrief replace the scouting report my staff builds by hand?
For opponent tendencies, coverage decisions, and matchup-specific attack and defend plans, yes, that is exactly what it generates. What it does not do is encode your own team's terminology, sets, or install language, which still has to come from your staff. Most users treat HoopBrief output as the first draft that would otherwise take hours to assemble.
Start scouting
Starter is $9.99/mo, Pro is $999/mo, both published. Every account starts with a 7-day trial, no card required.
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