How to use — the short version

1. Load a roster — paste one player per line (number name, birthday) and click Load roster, or tap Load Demo Players to try it out with ten fictional kids.
2. Eval — tap a player, dictate or type a note, Cmd+Enter saves. Tap a 1–5 chip only when you're already certain.
3. Score it — Data tab → Copy export → paste into any Claude chat → copy its reply into the Step 2 box → Apply scored data.
4. Draft — the board ranks everyone out of 15; click Draft on a row as players are taken.
5. Protect your data — Data tab → Download backup .json before leaving the field, and always open the app the same way so your saved work is there.

Everything below is the detail behind those five steps.

Phase 1 — Eval

1. Open the app at https://draftnight.pages.dev — works on any device, and on an iPad you can Add to Home Screen from Safari's Share menu. Fully offline instead? Double-clicking index.html or running ./serve.sh (http://localhost:8765) still works. Whatever you choose, use the same method every time.
2. Paste your roster, one player per line: number name, birthday — e.g. 12 Jake Sandoval, 2014-03-15. Number and birthday are both optional; 2014-03-15 and 3/15/2014 both parse, and tab-separated columns from a spreadsheet work. Click Load roster. If a birthday can't be read you get a warning naming the bad lines. If you already started, the app reopens where you left off — use Edit roster on the Data tab to change the list. Just exploring? Load Demo Players loads ten fictional 7–9-year-olds instead.
3. Players start in List view; switch to Grid with the toggle next to the filter box.
4. Tap a player. Add as many notes per player as you want — each one saves on its own.
5. The cursor lands in the Note box automatically. Trigger macOS dictation — on most MacBooks that is the mic key (F5) on the function row; check yours in System Settings → Keyboard → Dictation — then speak. On an iPad, tap the mic button on the on-screen keyboard instead. Cmd+Enter saves the note.
6. Tap a 1–5 chip only when you're already certain. A chip beats voice, typed, and the AI.
7. Move between players with ‹ / ›, the Jump to player box, or the ← / → keys. Esc closes the card.
8. Nothing needs saving — every note, edit, and chip writes immediately.
9. Before leaving the field: Data tab → Download backup .json. Clearing browser data wipes the session and this file is the only way back. Restore backup on the same tab reads it back in.

Phase 2 — Hand-off to Claude

10. Data tab → Copy export for a small roster, or Download export .txt and attach the file for a big one. The hint under the buttons tells you which. Either way the payload carries its own scoring instructions.
11. Send it to any Claude session — a brand-new one is fine, it needs no memory of this project. Send it as-is. Do not send the backup .json instead; that is your restore file and has no instructions in it.
12. Copy Claude's reply into the Step 2 box and click Apply scored data. Code fences or extra chatter around the JSON are handled.
13. Read the confirmation — it names any player it couldn't match. Then check the Draft tab.
14. If this fails, skip it. The board still ranks on the chips you tapped. You lose the summaries, not the tool.

Phase 3 — Draft

15. Opens sorted by Total, Available only, top three outlined.
16. Row reads: rank, name, one-line AI summary, then HIT / SPD / DEF and TOT.
17. Search matches names, numbers, transcripts, and AI summaries. Sort by any category to fill a specific hole.
18. When a player is taken, click Draft on the row. No modal opens. To reverse it, filter to Drafted only and click Undo.
19. Click the row body for the full card — complete summary, the verbatim phrase behind each score, all transcripts, and tappable overrides.

Reading the markers

• * on a total — incomplete. Some category was never scored. The player still ranks on the total he has.
• Dashed amber tile — low confidence. Worth a look before you trust it.
• — in a tile — no evidence captured for that category. Never guessed at.
• Age badge (e.g. 11y 4m) — computed from the birthday, shown as of today. When two players have the same total, the younger one ranks first, and players with no birthday sort last within a tie. Sort: Age (youngest) ranks the whole board by age. Age never influences a score — it is a tie-breaker for you, not an input to the AI.

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