Step into realistic sports disputes as advocates, arbitrators, and decision-makers, and learn how conflicts in sport are argued, evaluated, and resolved.
No legal background required as students learn the process through a guided platform.
A realistic sports dispute lands on your clipboard, built from the way real conflicts in sport actually play out.
Advocate for the player. Represent the league. Sit on the panel. Every seat changes how you see the case.
Present arguments, ask questions, respond under pressure, and support your position with rules and evidence.
The panel delivers a reasoned decision. Then the group reviews the reasoning, what worked, and what could have been stronger.
The platform supports the workshop by organizing the case, roles, hearing flow, and final decision.
Students build skills they can use in school, leadership, interviews, and future careers.
No student fees, no ads, and no paid tiers that affect the learning experience. The program is backed by people who believe in it:
Once you've run the fundamentals, the cases get bigger, messier, and a lot more fun.
Complex collective disputes involving league policy, player rights, and financial consequences.
Governance and authority cases. Who really runs the league, and who gets to check them?
Contract and negotiation simulations where every single word matters. Read carefully.
Playbook Arbitration is student-led, locally run, and built to slot into your existing programs: no cost to your school, no cost to your students.
We handle the cases, the platform, and the structure. You bring the students. Together we run something they'll still be talking about senior year.
Daniel Jacoby is a grade 11 student with two obsessions: sports and the rules that hold them together. While most fans argue about the call on the field, Daniel kept asking a different question: who decides what happens next? The suspensions, the contract fights, the appeals: an entire world of high-stakes decisions happening just behind the scoreboard.
He built Playbook Arbitration because that world felt locked away, reserved for law schools and league offices, when the skills behind it are exactly what students should be practicing now: arguing with structure, listening with fairness, and deciding with reasons.
Daniel's own game plan? A career as a sports agent and lawyer, representing athletes at the tables where their futures get decided. PBA is his first case: proof that you don't have to wait for a title to start doing the work.
Student, teacher, school, or supporter, there's a spot on the roster for you.
Nope. If you've ever argued a bad ref call, you're qualified to start. The workshops teach the process from the opening whistle.
Also nope. The cases teach you what you need. Caring about fairness is the only real prerequisite.
In person, that's the point. The web platform supports the room; it doesn't replace it.
Zero. For students and schools, it's free, always. The program is supported by sponsors and partners who believe in youth development.
Students. With structure, standards, and a serious commitment to doing it well.
A full simulation typically runs a single session, case briefing, arguments, deliberation, and the post-game breakdown. Multi-session formats are available for schools that want to go deeper.
They're realistic, built to mirror how disputes in sport actually unfold, but the names, teams, and details are fictional. You get the drama without anyone's actual lawyers calling us.
Advocates argue for a side, arbitrators sit on the panel and decide, witnesses bring the facts to life, and case managers keep the whole session on the rails. Most participants rotate roles across sessions, every seat teaches something different.
Absolutely, that's the plan. New cases keep coming, and returning participants unlock the advanced modules: union vs. league disputes, governance cases, and contract simulations.
Never. There's no advertising to students and no monetization that touches the learning experience. Supporters back the program because they believe in it, not to reach you.