Building a scoreboard for an indoor/garage basketball game

Hello,

We have a neat indoor basketball game with 2 baskets, and unfortunately, the electronic scoreboard entirely busted. The manufacturer, Sportcraft, filed for bankruptcy. (Here's the actual product https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sportcraft-Step-Back-3-Basketball-Game/15524465)

I'd like to build an entirely new scoreboard system to tap into my inner geek, and wondering about how to approach a few parts of the problem.

1. There's a lever that is deployed when a basket goes in. This connects to what looks like a pretty standard 4 prong "phone" cord. This would communicate to know that a basket goes in.

2. There needs to be some kind of LED scoreboard, driven by 2 inputs:
a. Baskets going into the respective basket.
b. Some type of "control" panel that turns it on/off.

3. The scoreboard should have some kind of timer function.

So, combining these different inputs - any advice on how to attack the problem?

Many thanks!
-Kevin

You can make an adder that will keep track of amount of baskets scored.
Are you intending to make the scoreboard?
It would be best to make it turn on and off with a switch manually, like a foot pedal or similar
Timer function can be simple, use a stop watch that is hooked up to the on off trigger, once the adder reaches the specified value, it can send a pulse back to the stop watch to stop

Actually no, just use a simple ripple counter, can keep track up to a score of 15 if you wish