Non-head-to-head / multi-player individual sports customizations

Hi!

Thanks for getting in touch!

I believe the way you are adding the scores right now is not the best way to get it they way you want.

Probably the #1 will require some custom code, and the second one can’t be done, but that’s mostly because of the way you are adding the events.

In my understanding each event is just the race. So you may have multiple events inside of a meet, but each event has one player just once. The meet itself can even be a competition or the equivalent to a matchday

To confirm this, would you mind sending us an example of the sport itself? Just tell us a little bit about how it works usually in a day.

For example if I were to explain soccer to you I’d say we have an event with 2 teams and they play for 90 minutes (with a 15 minute break after the first half). Usually each team has 11 players but this can be adjusted according to the field (some play with less, and some play with more). The winner team is the one with most goals. We can however get a draw, that sometimes leads to a penalties shootout (if they are playing in a tournament for example).

Kind Regards,
-Roch

Hi Roch,

I wish it was that cut-and-dry for track & field! Here’s an example….

The Eagles Invitational Track Meet is June 1 at Memorial Stadium. Our athletes compete as follows:

Mary Smith races in heat 2 of the women’s 400 meters and heat 1 of the women’s mile.
Joe Butler races in the men’s 800 meters.
Megan Jones races in heat 1 of the women’s 400 meters and in the women’s 800 meters.

In each race, Mary, Joe and Megan are the only members of our team in that race. The other 7 athletes in each race come from somewhere else (and, for our site’s purposes, we’re not too interested in who they are). There are also multiple heats of some of the races, like the women’s 400 meters – Mary and Megan both race the 400 meters, but not against each other because there are two separate heats (sections) at that distance. And there are plenty of races that we have nothing to do with.

We don’t earn any points as a team and there is no team scoring / competition within the Eagles Invitational.

We will have 10 meets like this over the course of the Summer 2016 season, and 5 meets like this in the Winter 2016 season.

Even though there is not a team component, it is very important for user experience as well as our branding to have everything grouped on one page for the meet (e.g.,Eagles Invitational). People will ask “How did you guys do at the meet this weekend?”, knowing that we had multiple athletes competing independently in multiple races. They will want a single destination to see how we (as a collection of individuals) did that day.

If there is no way to list an athlete twice without custom code, we’d rather just list their “primary” race at the meet than make each race a separate event (page). Unless there’s a way to group multiple events onto a single page. That’s how important it is to keep everything under one umbrella for a given meet.

Hope this helps!
-G

Hi!

Thanks a lot for the detailed description, I believe it’s clearer now.

What I think you need to do is to create each race (for example men’s 800 meters or even 800 meters heat 1) as an event.

Then you can use the matchday or a competition to group them all under the same Eagles Invitational Track Meet. Probably a competition is better since you can easily load all events via shortcode

The main issue now is how to add the players. You could use a team, but this would remove the player name from the regular shortcodes (only when checking the actual event page a user can see who is that team member that is running a 400m for example). This is the best option in terms of how it’s supposed to work, and with a bit of custom code you can achieve a better design (showing the runners for example).

Another option is actually removing the team, and adding in a player vs player mode. Then you can use a player stat field to show that they are members of your team

Kind Regards,
-Roch