BaselineIQ · Founding Season 2026

Great coaches
don't guess.
They know.

BaselineIQ is built from publicly available game and tournament results across Western NY — giving coaches a clear, objective picture of where their program stands and where it needs to go.

117
In the Network
Across 3 age groups · Western NY
3
Seasons Deep
Longitudinal history on select programs
9U–11U
Age Groups
Aging into 10U–12U in 2026
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The decisions that shape
a player's development —
made with confidence.

Winning can be an outcome. But what great coaches are really building is something harder to measure — confidence, discipline, resilience, and the foundation for a player's long-term growth. BaselineIQ gives you the objective context to make decisions that serve that mission, from daily lineups to season scheduling.

01
"Are my players being challenged at a level that actually makes them better?"
Development requires the right level of competition — not too comfortable, not overwhelming. The data shows whether your schedule is genuinely stretching your roster or quietly building false confidence.
02
"Can I stand behind my decisions — for my players, my parents, and myself?"
Tournament entry, roster construction, schedule design — these are judgment calls coaches make every week. BaselineIQ gives you the objective grounding to make those calls with clarity, not just instinct.
03
"Are we building something real — or just a record that looks good on paper?"
A strong record against weak competition builds nothing. Knowing the difference — and being honest about it — is the mark of a coach who's actually developing players, not just accumulating wins.
04
"Where does our program stand regionally — and what does that tell us about what's next?"
Regional context drives better decisions about everything — which tournaments to enter, which opponents to seek out, how to have honest conversations with players and parents about where the program is going.
A Real Example · Western NY · 9U · 2025 Season

Here's what a team snapshot actually reveals. A Western NY 9U program finished 2025 with 25 wins. On paper — a strong season. The kind of record that feels like progress, validates the coaching staff, and satisfies the parents. Here's what the data showed underneath it.

"25 wins. Zero that changed the ranking."
Real data · Western NY · 9U program · 2025 season · anonymous
Season Record
25–20–1
53.8% win rate · 46 games
Avg Run Diff / Game
+2.08
8.57 RS · 6.47 RA per game
What The Data Showed
0 wins against top-tier regional competition. Regional rank: #17 of 40.
The wins were real. The development gap wasn't visible yet.
"We were winning. But were we competing at the level that actually builds top programs?"

25 wins built almost entirely against below-average competition. Not a bad season — but a season that told us exactly where development needed to go next: harder opponents, stronger tournaments, and a schedule built to challenge the roster rather than validate it. The data didn't say we failed. It said we had a very specific gap to close — and now we knew exactly what it was. That's a very different offseason than the record alone would have suggested.

Not a snapshot
in isolation.
A full picture.

BaselineIQ tracks programs longitudinally — meaning select teams have data going back to their 9U seasons in 2023. That history reveals trajectory, not just rank. Where is your program trending? How has your development compared to the region over multiple years? Those questions have answers now.

11U · 2025 Season
Select programs with data back to their 9U season in 2023
42
10U · 2025 Season
Select programs with 9U history from 2024
35
9U · 2025 Season
First year in the BaselineIQ network
40
2026 Expansion
All cohorts aging up · new 9U programs being added now
Brendan Conway — BaselineIQ Founder
Brendan Conway
Founder, BaselineIQ · Head Coach, Grand Island Vikings 10U

I built BaselineIQ because I kept catching myself making the same mistakes — and I suspected most coaches in this region were making them too.

Scheduling opponents that felt competitive but weren't moving the needle. Entering tournaments based on our record without knowing what the field actually looked like. Running practice plans without the data to challenge them. Having roster and lineup conversations based on watching games instead of measuring what the numbers were saying.

None of those mistakes happen because coaches don't care about development. They happen because the information didn't exist in a usable form. I built BaselineIQ to change that — starting with my own program, and now making it available to any coach in the region who wants to look honestly at what the data is saying about their players and their program.

See where your
program actually stands.

Leave your info below. We'll pull your team's data and reach out within 48 hours with a snapshot that shows you something true about your program — something the record alone won't tell you.

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