CARL2 vs Ballchasing.com

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What Ballchasing does well

Ballchasing earned its place. It hosts well over a hundred million replays in a single searchable database, so you can pull up pro matches, tournament groups, or a specific player's games in seconds. Upload a replay and you get a shareable link and a clean in-browser 3D viewer that's great for spotting rotations and reviewing a play with a teammate. Each replay comes with a solid set of stats covering boost, positioning, movement, demos, and camera settings, and because the dataset is so large it can show you how your numbers stack up against the wider playerbase at your rank. There's also a documented API that a lot of third-party tools build on.

The limits: free accounts can upload about 70 replays per week (roughly ten a day), and going past that means waiting for the rolling window to clear or supporting the site on Patreon for higher limits. The analysis itself stays at the box-score-plus-heatmap level. There's no expected goals, no passing or possession breakdown, no series or career view that tracks you over time, and nothing live. It is a replay library and viewer first, and an analysis tool second.

Where CARL2 goes further

CARL2 processes a replay locally in 10 to 30 seconds and opens it across a set of focused tabs, so you're reading one part of the game at a time instead of scanning a wall of numbers. The difference shows up most in the questions it can answer.

Every shot gets an Expected Goals (xG) value based on distance, angle, ball speed, the shooter's boost, and defenders in the lane, so you can tell a good chance from a hopeful one. The shot map colors every attempt by outcome and filters near misses, shots on target, and goals separately.

Interactions break down by type: passes, giveaways, 50/50s, dribbles, demos, and possession changes, each filterable per player. If you keep coughing up the ball in the same spot, it shows up here instead of staying invisible in a box score.

Boost is more than a number. CARL2 maps where you collect pads, shows team boost control across the field, and overlays your pickup routes. Repeat the same path and the line gets thicker, making predictable habits obvious.

Load a whole series and the patterns stand out. Tendencies that stay hidden in a single game become obvious across five or ten. Passing and connection graphs show which teammates the ball moves through, win-vs-loss analysis shows the habits you fall into when you're behind, and evolution charts track each stat game by game.

CARL2 indexes every game you process by player. Pick anyone you've played with or against and see their full record across your saved games: CARL2 score over time, stats evolution, then-vs-now playstyle, gamemode splits, and your most frequent teammates and opponents with shared win rates. It's progress tracking Ballchasing has no equivalent for.

And it works live. CARL2 connects to a running Rocket League session and shows a minimap, boost and speed meters, and a live stat feed. Coach mode gives you team stats and chat history to react mid-game; caster mode trims it down for commentary; observer mode tracks pings and events for tournament admins. A browser-source stats screen with a dozen designs drops the same data straight into OBS for streams.

The trade-offs

Neither tool wins on everything.

Pricing, compared

Both tools are free to start, and both have a paid tier. Each one charges for something different.

Ballchasing's Patreon (from $2/month) mostly raises your upload limit and adds cosmetic perks. It does not unlock deeper analysis; the stats are the same whether you pay or not.

CARL2 is free to download, and the free tier covers full single-game analysis and every live mode with no upload limits. Pro (€4.99/month, with cheaper yearly and one-time lifetime options; check the app for current pricing and any sale) adds the multi-game series suite, player lifetime tracking, head-to-head compare, and data export to CSV, JSON, or an LLM-ready file you can hand to ChatGPT or Claude for coaching. CARL2's Pro tier adds analysis the free tier doesn't have, rather than a bigger upload quota.

So which should you use?

Ballchasing figures (upload limits, stat categories, Patreon tiers, and database size) are taken from ballchasing.com and its FAQ, and reflect what was published when this page was last updated. Limits and pricing on both tools can change, so check each site for the current details. Not affiliated with Ballchasing.com.