Every season, the same email lands in your inbox: "why wasn't my child selected?" Totem replaces "I picked the team" with a ranked, rated, defensible answer — before you ever have to give one.
No card required to try it. Free for as long as you're getting set up.
▶ Watch the 60-second overviewReliability is computed from real practice attendance — not memory, not favouritism.
It's not really about the team sheet. It's about being asked to defend a decision you made from memory, under time pressure, with fifteen other things happening at once — and having nothing to point to except "I picked the team."
Hi Coach,
I wanted to understand the reasoning behind this week's side. Emma trained every session and I'm struggling to see why she wasn't included this time.
Could you help me understand the selection process?
You're not defending a gut feeling anymore. You're describing a system.
Personal, unfalsifiable, and impossible to defend without it sounding like an excuse. Every follow-up question puts you further on the back foot.
Specific, consistent, and grounded in numbers you were already tracking — practice attendance, position ratings, match history. Not an excuse. An explanation.
Fitness, skill, speed, whatever matters for your sport — rated per position, per age group. Takes minutes per player, not a whole afternoon.
A, B, C sides ranked automatically from the ratings — ties broken by reliability, not by who you remember best.
Print it, WhatsApp it, or email it straight to coaches — opponent, date, venue, and lineup, all in one branded sheet.
Attendance and match results quietly update reliability over the season — so the picture gets more accurate, not more stale.
Prefer to see it running with real data? Try the live demo — a full Rugby squad, fixtures, and results already loaded, no signup needed.
Team selection is where Totem starts, not where it stops. Fixtures, practices, and attendance all feed the same system — which is what makes the ratings behind your selections actually mean something.
Add a match or practice session once, against any sport and age group — it's on the calendar for every coach assigned to that team.
A simple register at every practice — which quietly builds the reliability score behind your selections, instead of relying on memory.
Book a fixture and the right coach gets emailed the team sheet — date, time, venue, lineup — no forwarding required from you.
Share any team sheet straight to WhatsApp, print it for the noticeboard, or email it — whichever's how your club actually communicates.
Book a fixture and every listed guardian is notified — own transport, organised transport, or player availability. Their replies build a bus check sheet inside Totem automatically, so you can confirm everyone's present before the bus leaves.
Most team-management software is built for a different market and bolted onto yours afterward. Totem started here.
Capture a player and guardian, and the POPIA consent form and bus/transport consent form go out together — plus a plain-language privacy policy, all built in from day one.
Team sheets go where your parents and coaches actually check — not another inbox nobody opens.
Plans start at R49/month — sized for a single school team, not an international sports federation.
Netball, hockey, rugby, cricket, swimming, athletics — a full multi-sport programme under one login.
Totem is still early, and that's the advantage: founding schools don't just get a discount, they get a seat at the table while the product is being built.
Every school locks in their price and badge the moment they sign up.
Claim your founding spotPrices exclude VAT. No sport or player limits during your free trial — set up your whole programme before paying anything.
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