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If your cricket club is using your major sporting body's system to record your match results (such as Play-Cricket (ECB) or MyCricket (Cricket Australia), then it is highly likely that you are satisfied with the service it provides. Whilst some clubs may seen the need for minor improvements in data entry, the management of scores, player averages and competition ladders are usually well regarded. However, some cricket clubs still face a number of issues related to the online publication of match scores and management of player and match statistics:
Use of major sporting body system is not enforced. Not all associations and leagues enforce the use of the automated system throughout their clubs. This can mean that there inconsistencies in the detail of results being uploaded. Some associations and leagues have their own websites where basic match scores, but not player details, are uploaded. This allows them to keep track of club ladder positions during the season, but not much more. Clubs then often have responsibility to keep their own individual statistics. Some of these clubs still opt to use the major sporting body system. Others design their own spreadsheet or database or use a third party online system.
Informal matches. Some clubs are involved in informal matches that are not recorded on the major sporting body system - but the club would still like to keep track of these statistics for their own purposes. At the moment, some clubs are balancing using online systems for official matches and (offline) spreadsheet or database systems for unofficial matches - but this can be quite difficult to manage.
Results from 'pre-system' seasons. The major online systems being used tend to have results recorded from when they first came online. The problem is that many clubs have a history to goes back for years before these systems commenced. The only way to keep this data at the moment is to keep separate manual records for the older data and/or store it on a separate database or spreadsheet system.
Posting results on social media. Some clubs like to post the results of matches as soon as they are available on their social media pages. The most popular strategy that clubs adopt for this is to cut and paste or even just enter the results manually into social media posts. A less time consuming alternative solution would be to just post the web link to where the club scores are stored on the major sporting body website. However, this then requires an extra click by users to view the scores.
Use the major sporting body website or not? This discussion is mainly addressed on the website page of this guide. The major sporting bodies usually offer the scores along with a website that they have provided, typically formatted according to a predetermined template. Some clubs feel that they would like to have their own, separate website. They then face the problem of having one website with their results and another (external) website that they have created and see as their 'major' page. The easiest solution for this is to provide a link to the results on the external website. However, if clubs want readers of that website to see the scores on the external site then they will either have to cut and paste them, enter them manually or work out a way to link them automatically.
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