Best Practices

Habits that keep your data accurate and save time all season.

General

• Keep Takedown updated to the current release.
• Accuracy matters. Your reports and stats are only as good as the scoring behind them.

Internet

• Connect to the internet as often as you can so every iPad stays in sync.
• Gyms often have poor Wi-Fi. Learn to use your phone as a personal hotspot and connect your iPad to it.

My Team

• Write out your team name in full, for example "Central High School," not "CHS."
• Don't include a competition level, like "Varsity," in your team name.
• Write your short name in all capital letters.
• Use a square, high-resolution logo file, not a photo of a logo.

Contacts

• At the start of each season, add new parents or guardians and remove those of wrestlers who have left.
• Enter both an email address and a phone number for each contact.
• Add at least one media contact so you can use Share Box Score with Media.
• Turn on Takedown Primary Contact only for staff who should get emails from LevelChanger.

Seasons

• Include the team or gender in the Season name, for example "2026-27 Boys HS."
• Check that the start and end dates are correct. Events must fall between them.
• Create a separate Season for training, scrimmages, intrasquads and wrestle-offs so they stay out of your competition stats.

Roster and opponent teams

• Download rosters from our online database whenever you can. Trackwrestling rosters include each wrestler's MWC and MWW.
• Add opponent teams before you build your schedule.
• Add wrestler photos and parents or guardians early in the season.
• Add opponent logos only if you use the scoreboard or lineup handout.

Schedule and events

• Enter your whole schedule as early as you can.
• Use a Dual Meet Tournament for tris, quads and dual tournaments, so you enter the event roster and weigh-ins once.
• Record weigh-ins for every event.
• In a tournament, add your wrestlers to the event roster at their weight class, and record wrestler and team placements afterward.

Practices

• Set practices to repeat weekly, then adjust individual days as needed.
• Take attendance at every practice.
• Save practice plans you reuse as templates in the Practice Planner.

Scoring

• Use Override rarely. It has two legitimate uses: scoring awarded after the official signals time out, and a defensive pin.
• In a tournament, set the Round and Bracket for each match.
• Start the match clock in every period, even when entering a match from a paper scorebook.
• To track takedown attempts, turn on Settings > Scoring > Score shots before the season starts.