Team Roping Draw Software for Producers, Compared

Running a team roping still means juggling a lot of moving pieces — entries, a draw sheet, times, payouts, and whoever's asking where the results are. Some producers do it with a spreadsheet and a calculator. Others have moved to dedicated draw software. Here's a plain look at what's already out there, and where Draw Pro fits into that picture.

What's already out there for teamroping producers

Desktop jackpot draw software. Tools like Carlsen RMP (roughly $189–299/year), Roping Assistant Pro, and Team Rope America / Charlie Horse are built specifically for running the draw on-site — handling pick/draw formats, times, and payouts. They do that job well. The catch is they're desktop-bound: built to run on a laptop at the event, with no mobile app for entrants and little to no way for a roper to find a partner or check results without asking you directly. The draw sheet lives on your computer, not in anyone's pocket.

Full association and rodeo platforms. Software like Rodeo Producer (Team Roping Producer) and Rodeo Ready covers memberships, online entry, draws, and standings. That's real, capable infrastructure — but it's built for associations and rodeo circuits running a season of sanctioned events, not a producer running a Saturday jackpot. It's heavier ops than most independent producers need, the software cost cannot be justified for just a handful of events , and there is no partner-finding tool for entrants.

Handicap and entry apps. Global Roping (Equine Network / Global Handicaps) is built around entering sanctioned events, seeing results, and livestreams. Useful if you're plugged into that sanctioning body, but it's not a general-purpose draw tool for an independent team roping producer running their own jackpots.

Event calendars, partner-finder apps, and stats tools. Apps like Roping Finder, RopeMetrics, and Team Roping Buddy serve entrants — listing jackpots, posting "need a heeler," tracking personal stats. None of them run a producer's actual draw or handle entries and payouts.

Where Draw Pro fits

Draw Pro is built for the producer's side of this specifically: set up the event, take entries, run the draw, score rounds, get paid — from a phone or a laptop, without a spreadsheet.

What that actually looks like:

• Set up an event once — title, dates, location, payment method (Cash or Online), and a Standard (+10s broken barrier) or World Series (+5s) barrier rule for the whole event.

• Bundle multiple classes under one shared entry link or QR code, each with its own label, cap number, round count, and price — matching how real fliers are already structured, instead of running separate links per class.

• Entrants enter with a known partner or draw in solo, and cap rules get enforced automatically at entry instead of you catching a bad pairing after the fact.

• Run the draw itself when you're ready — spacing conflicts and unmatched entrants get flagged automatically, rather than left for you to spot by hand.

• Score rounds as they happen: No Time, broken barrier, one-leg catch — the final time and penalty get calculated automatically.

• Export entries and results to CSV whenever you need them.

• A Balance Sheet that rolls up entry revenue (estimated for cash events, verified for online events), any Steer Me extra-run fees, and whatever costs you enter — prizes, stock contractor, facility, payroll — into a per-event and season total. It's a recordkeeping aid, not tax or accounting advice, and it's honest about which numbers are estimated versus confirmed.

• A Payout Calculator that pulls your real entry-fee totals and paid-entry counts per class, then splits the payout live across however many places you're paying, once you enter the added money and payback percentage. It's a private planning tool — nothing in it is saved or shown to entrants.

• If your entrants are on Steer Me, their team number and results push to their phone automatically. No more tracking someone down to tell them who got the extra run and collecting for it in person — that's already handled.

Where things stand right now

Draw Pro is currently in a controlled trial with a small number of known producers — it's not open for public signup yet. If that's changed by the time you're reading this, we'll update this post, but as of now the honest move is to get on the list rather than promise a signup flow that isn't live.

Learn more about Draw Pro and get on the list for early access. If you're an entrant instead of a producer, have a look at our team roping partner finder app

 covering that side of the same problem.