Email Game Information

[FTMSupport]

You can certainly do your own hosting. Many people do. iScore emails everything you need to do your own hosting.

What our Team Websites are offering is not so much about the actual hosting as it is the convenience of eliminating all the manual steps necessary to maintain a website, and the ability to actually have a website for the many people out there that do not know how to create websites at all. One click, and you have a fully functional website for your team. Edit the settings, and now the look of the site matches your team. Click Export at the end of a game, and everything about the site is updated (Game is posted, Statistics are Updated, etc).

Team websites are not for everybody, but we feel that $20 / year is an incredible value for the time savings over manually maintaining your own website (it can literally take an hour after every game to manually update a website with all the information we update in one click). In fact, most hosting only plans cost more than $20/year. For example, GoDaddy.com (one of the largest and cheapest hosting providers) is $4.99 / month. You can usually get a 30% discount from them, but that is still over $40/year, which is double what we are offering, and you have to manually update the site. We are also competitively priced with other team hosting websites, and unlike the others, we do not put any advertising on the sites. You can optionally put your own sponsors on your site, but we do not do any advertising --- the site is yours.

So for people that know HTML, know how to FTP and don't mind spending time after every game updating content, then certainly emailing results of the game to yourself and then posting that data to your own hosting provider is an option. We try and provide everything you need in the emails to do that. We just can't provide the convenience of the integrated Team Website experience.

[brentwalker]

FTM, I agree with your statements. What I was trying to ask is, is there a better way to manage the scenario in which I describe. I wouldn't mind paying $20 a year for the team site, however he plays for three different teams in which I try to score the games on my iphone through iscore.

Team #1 - High School (three seasons, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Team #2 - Rays Select Baseball (three summer seasons, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Team #3 - Tribe Select Baseball (three summer seasons, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Pick-Up Teams where he is asked to play

I'm not quite sure how to do this following your "team site" philosophy. this would mean that I would ahve to have 4 different sites just to see my son's status collectively.

My question is what is the best way to accomplish this at the least expense to me?

thanks,
/bw

[FTMSupport]

Are you trying to create a site that is dedicated to the player? or the team? What we have done with this offering is focus on the Team as the thing that is being shared so that all parents / members of the team have a place to go to see their team's data.

It seems maybe you are looking for a way to create a "Player" site? Where somebody would come to see all the games that particular player has played in, and see the cumulative stats for the Player regardless of the team? We think that is an interesting concept if that is what you are asking for. Do you have an example of how you present that data? It doesn't really make sense to combine "teams" into a single site as each team has their own roster, their own games, their own stats, their own colors, etc. But it might make sense to offer a "Player Spotlight" type offering.

If you can give us either a sample site of what you are looking to do, or describe what your vision of it would be, it may be something we can offer.

Thank you.

[brentwalker]

No, I have not seen a site like this (for the player) but I do know that on almost all of the college forms we have filled out, they have asked for a player website listing the player stats as well as other information about the player, like bio, reference letters etc. That is mostly why I was wanting this functionality, to have a site to point at for the college coaches to preview players.

My idea would be to take the player stats from your program and present it on the site below the players bio information as well as reference letters the player may have received from his coaches, HighSchool and Select Teams. These of couse would be fields that are editable from a admin screen like the iscore homepage such that you could enter text received from those coaches and or enter bio information such as weight height R/L handed, etc.

[FTMSupport]

We have talked internally about the idea we mentioned above for "Player Spotlight" sites, and think what you are looking for is a perfect scenario for this.

We will be working frantically to get this concept up ASAP so you can have a site focused on individual players. It will be a similar model, but with the emphasis on a single player and all games / stats related to the player instead of to a team.

This should be just what you are looking for. We believe we can get a first version working before the weekend is over as it is based closely on the same code as the team websites. Over time, we will add new functionality to Player Spotlight sites as well based on your and others feedback.

[OhioTex]

the idea for player centric site is very cool..

I use leagues for different years, so perhaps your high school team 1, could be 1 team site (20$) and then use leagues for different years (2009, 2010, 2011, once the league filter functionality is added to the web site....

[brentwalker]

Thanks OhioTex, that sounds like the workaround I was looking for.

[FTMSupport]

Just to follow up... the "Player Spotlights" concept has been launched. You can find more information in this posting:

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